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.

Based on the exceptional achievement of IEEE Computer Society Professional Education & Activities Board led by VP Dr. Cyril Onwubiko with all experts, the Computer Society is awarded the IEEE EAB Society/Council Professional Development Award at the ceremony co-located with the IEEE meeting series in NYC. Congratulations to Cyril, the PEAB leadership, contributors, staff, and everyone involved! This award is a well-deserved recognition of CS/PEAB’s outstanding contributions and unwavering commitment to education and professional development at every stage of the professional journey.

At the ACM/IEEE SC’25 St. Louis, the IEEE Computer Society held a top-level meeting with ACM President Prof. Yannis Ioannidis and ACM’s Chief Operating Officer Pat Ryan. We discussed and confirmed our long-term partnership and planned expanding our collaboration.

Co-located with the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors meeting in St. Louis, the CS was honored to present the awards to the distinguished experts from our community. Congratulations!

Prof. Washizaki attended the SC’25 conference in beautiful St. Louis. SC is the largest conference sponsored by IEEE Computer Society together with ACM. We honored outstanding individuals from our community with the IEEE Computer Society Awards: the Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award for Dr. Ewa Deelman and the Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award for Dr. John Shalf.

Furthermore, Prof. Washizaki had a chance to give an introductory talk on the SWEBOK Guide at the Research Software Engineers in HPC.