News | Yuta Ishimoto

[2026/04] Started as an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Osaka.
[2026/03] 🎊🎓 Received a Ph.D. (Information Science) from the Graduate School of Systems Information Science, Kyushu University.
[2026/01] Held the public defense of doctoral dissertation “Debugging AI-enabled and Quantum Software Systems.”

[2025/12] 🎉 Paper accepted at SANER 2026 ERA Track (Leveraging Mutation Analysis for LLM-based Repair of Quantum Programs).
[2025/10] Visited Prof. Gabriele Bavota at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland, to advance a collaborative research project.
[2025/09] Visited Prof. Ahmed E. Hassan and Dr. Hao Li at Queen’s University, Canada, to advance a collaborative research project.
[2025/09] Presented at the Top Conference/Journal Special Session at the 40th Annual Conference of JSSST, Tokai University Shinagawa Campus.
[2025/07] Presented a previously published paper at MLSE Summer Camp 2025, Hakone.
[2025/06] Presented a paper at FSE 2025, Trondheim, Norway (Journal First Track).
[2025/06] Presented a paper at EASE 2025, Istanbul, Turkey (Short Papers, Emerging Results Track).
[2025/04] 🎉 Paper accepted at EASE 2025 Short Papers, Emerging Results Track (Evaluating Mutation-based Fault Localization for Quantum Programs).
[2025/03] Presented at IEICE Technical Meeting on Software Science (SIGSS), Amami Oshima (paper).

[2024/12] Gave a guest lecture at Fukui National College of Technology (my alma mater) on transferring to a university from NIT and research (slides).
[2024/12] Attended APSEC 2024: (1) participated as a panelist at the co-located EEE-OSS workshop; (2) presented a paper at the main Technical Track.
[2024/11] 🏆 Attended the 31st Workshop on Foundations of Software Engineering (FOSE 2024) and presented a poster. Received the ポスター・デモ賞.
[2024/10] 🎉 Paper accepted at ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) (Repairs and Breaks Prediction for Deep Neural Networks).
[2024/09–10] Visited the lab of Prof. Fuyuki Ishikawa at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) for collaborative research.
[2024/09] 🎉 Paper accepted at APSEC 2024 Technical Track (An Empirical Study on Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Quantum Software).
[2024/07] Attended MSR Summit Japan 2024.
[2024/03] Gave a talk at the joint event “Informatics for all by all” hosted by 8 universities.

[2023/10–11] Enrolled as a visiting student at Prof. Lei Ma’s lab at the University of Tokyo.
[2023/10] Attended QRS 2023 and presented a paper (online).
[2023/09] Selected as a JSPS Research Fellow (DC2) for FY2024 (研究課題名：「機械学習システムの運用時における自動的な品質保証技術の確立」).
[2023/09] Presented at the Top Conference/Journal Special Session at the 40th Annual Conference of JSSST, University of Tokyo Hongo Campus.
[2023/08] Presented an invited paper at the Software Engineering Symposium 2023 (SES 2023), Waseda University Nishi-Waseda Campus.
[2023/07] Attended MSR Asia Summit 2023 (Sapporo & Jozankei, Hokkaido) as Local Arrangement Chair and poster presenter. Also participated in the Researchathon, a 3-day intensive research sprint.
[2023/06] Presented a paper at EASE 2023, Oulu, Finland.
[2023/05] Attended ICSE and co-located CAIN, Melbourne, Australia. Presented a paper at CAIN.
[2023/04] Paper selected for the Journal First track at EASE 2023 (presentation of the IST journal paper).
[2023/03] 🎉 Paper accepted at CAIN 2023 (An Initial Analysis of Repair and Side-effect Prediction for Neural Networks).
[2023/03] 🎊🎓 Received M.Eng. degree from Kyushu University.

[2022/11] 🎉 Paper accepted at Information and Software Technology (IST) (PAFL: Probabilistic Automaton-based Fault Localization for Recurrent Neural Networks).
[2022/10] Co-authored a feature article in the IPSJ Magazine “Journal of Information Processing,” November 2022 issue (Quality Assurance for AI: 5. Fault Localization and Automated Repair of Neural Network Models).
[2022/09–10] Visited Prof. Lei Ma’s lab at the University of Alberta, Canada, for one month of collaborative research.
[2022/07] 🏆 Presented at IEICE Technical Meeting on Software Science (SIGSS) (paper). Received the 令和4年度電子情報通信学会ソフトウェアサイエンス研究会研究奨励賞.
[2022/06] Presented a poster at the 5th MLSE Summer Camp (MLSE夏合宿2022).

[2021/11] Presented a poster at the 2nd Workshop on Next-Generation Software Ecosystems.
[2021/06] 🏆 Received the 情報処理学会2021年度コンピュータサイエンス領域奨励賞.
[2021/03] 🎊🎓 Received B.Eng. degree from Kyushu University.
[2021/03] 🏆 Received the 学生研究賞 at the 207th IPSJ Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSE).
[2021/03] Presented at the 207th IPSJ Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSE).