Kan Watanabe from our laboratory received the Distinguished Mining Challenge Paper Award at the 23rd International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2026). The Mining Challenge is a competitive track held every year at the MSR conference. Participants analyze a specific dataset provided by the organizers and compete on the originality of the insights they draw about software engineering. Outstanding papers are recognized with the Distinguished Mining Challenge Paper Award. The MSR 2026 Mining Challenge received 116 submissions, and only three papers (2.
