Mai Hirabayashi, Hironori Washizaki, Naoyasu Ubayashi, Juichi Takahashi and Yohei Takagi, “Generating User Clones from Questionnaires: A Lightweight Approach to Requirements Elicitation,” 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026), Short Paper, Limassol, Cyprus, March 17 – 20, 2026.

Lab members and students had a good time at a year-end gathering.

Prof. Washizaki was invited to deliver a keynote at the 28th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT 2025, chairs Dr. Celia Shahnaz, Dr. Mohammad A. Karim, Dr. Mohammad S. Alam), held from December 19-21 at the Long Beach Hotel in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, and organized by the IEEE Bangladesh Section.

スマートエスイー IoT/AIコース 2026年度 募集説明会を開催。小倉氏、宮﨑氏から優れた修了制作のご紹介をいただきました。多くのご参加、ありがとうございました！2月9日まで応募を受け付けていますので、ぜひご検討ください！

The IEEE Computer Society Japan Young Author Award ceremony was held by CS Tokyo/Japan Joint Chapter (Chair: Prof. Kiyoshi Honda), Kansai Chapter (Chair: Prof. Noriiro Yoshida), and Fukuoka Chapter (Chair: Prof. Koji Inoue) in cooperation with Smart SE. Congratulations to all awardees: Keisuke Sugiura, Zhenya Zhang, and Youmei Fan! IEEE CS is the largest global professional home in computing for everyone, engaging early-career professionals and supporting geographic activities.

On behalf of the IEEE Computer Society, Prof. Washizaki has been delighted to join the celebration of the 100th World & 50th Thai Quantum S&T Anniversary, organized by the IEEE Thailand Section Quantum IT group, by providing his remarks and talk, referring to the IEEE CS’s programs and activities in quantum computing.

IEEE Computer Society’s 2025 Reflection article in Dec issue of Computer magazine. Together with Vice Presidents, we reflected on remarkable year of 2025 by reviewing the programs and activities, and look ahead to the future toward the 80th anniversary!

12月19日午前 IEEE CS Young Author Award講演会・スマートエスイーIoT/AIコース説明会では、FPGAアクセラレータ、AIによるCPS制御システム検証、GitHub Sponsors調査についてそれぞれ受賞者自らの講演があります。加えてスマートエスイーの説明会ならびに生成AI活用の優れた修了制作事例講演。ぜひご参加ください！

12th AsianPLoP Conference “AI & Patterns” (AsianPLoP 2026)will take place from March 27 to 30, 2026, at Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Serendie Street Yokohama, Japan. Its paper submission due date is December 22. Don’t miss this opportunity!

Weitao PAN received the Best Presentation Award at the Global Information and Telecommunication Workshop (GITW) 2025, for his presentation titled “Machine Learning Design Pattern Engineering: Machine Learning-Based Detection in Code.” Congrats, PAN!