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!

Prof. Foutse Khomh (from Polytechnique Montreal) visited our lab, having a great time discussing and envisioning the future of (Gen)AI software engineering and CPS, and more, with exploration of Tokyo’s fun places.

Prof. Washizaki joined the 32nd Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2025, General Chairs Xiapu Luo (Daniel), Tao Zhang, PC Chairs Jacky Keung, Eunjong Choi) to co-chair the Tutorial track together with Cuiyun Gao, and provide my opening remarks. This is the first time to have the IEEE Computer Society as its technical sponsor! Thanks to Macau University of Science and Technology, Macao Convention & Exhibition Association, and all others for sponsoring this conference. Thanks to IEEE CS Macao Chapter (chaird by Daniel) and Hong Kong Chapter (chaired by Jacky), for supporting this. IEEE CS Macau Chapter Forum was also held.

Fumika received the Best Poster Award for the poster titled “A Large Scale Comparison for Automating DL Bug Classification” at the AI-Driven Software Engineering Summit for Fostering Next-Generation Researchers, organized by the team and sponsored by ASPIRE and IPSJ-SIGSE. Congrats! Thank you for organizing the great event that encouraged and connected students and early-career professionals!

Fumika Hoshi, Masanari Kondo, Weitao Pan, Hironori Washizaki, Naoyasu Ubayashi, Best Poster Award, AI-Driven Software Engineering Summit for Fostering Next-Generation Researchers (for the poster titled “A Large Scale Comparison for Automating DL Bug Classification”), 2025.

Takumi Ayukawa, Jati H. Husen, Nobukazu Yoshioka, Hironori Washizaki, Naoyasu Ubayashi, “Machine Learning Application Argument Patterns and Support Framework for Assurance Case Construction,” Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence and Patterns, pp. 1-30, 2025. (SCIE indexed, IF=1.1)

At HKUST, Hong Kong, Huawei Huang, Dusit Niyato, Yi Sun, and Hironori Washizaki organized the BlockNetSys 2025: ACM CoNEXT Workshop on Blockchain-Network Synergy. Thanks to all participants and contributors, notably Yijun Lu and other supporters, we had a great start to the community, bridging different but related areas such as Blockchain, networks, AI, and autonomous systems. Prof. Washizaki presented his keynote there.