January 1st, 2024
Hironori Washizaki
Below, I review last year’s resolution, 2023, and describe New Year’s Resolution, 2024, in terms of Community and Professional Contributions, Projects, Achievements, and Team Organization. The Japanese version is also available.
- Summary of 2023: “Year of breakthrough”
- Society and Community: IEEE-CS 1st Vice President, IPSJ SIGSE Chair, and ISO/IEC/JTC1/SC7/WG20 Convenor. Hosted international conferences IEEE CSEE&T, DSA, and IEEE AVS. SWEBOK Guide evolution.
- Projects: 10+ research and education projects. The sustainability transformation of SmartSE has been accepted for the large MEXT fund.
- Publicity and Achievements: 3+3 journal papers, 26+3 international conference & workshop papers, 1 book, 2 proceedings, 1 special issue, 1 leaflet, 33 keynotes and invited talks, and 17 awards.
- Team: Our team has grown larger and more diverse. Multiple exchange students have stayed and had exemplary achievements in collaboration.
- Vision of 2024: “Year of international advancement and leading“
- Society and Community: IEEE-CS President-Elect, IPSJ SIGSE Chair, and ISO/IEC/JTC1/SC7/WG20 Convenor. Organize and contribute to IEEE Cybermatics, IEEE ISSRE, IEEE COMPSAC/SIoT, IISA, and AsianPLoP. Publish SWEBOK Guide V4.
- Projects: AI/LLM/FM security continuum, JSPS KAKENHI-funded ML pattern, JSPS KAKENHI-funded ML-supported maintenance and evolution (ME-ML), JST MIRAI-funded eAI framework, Smart SE, K-12 STEM education, and Goal-oriented digital business research with mostly international and industrial collaborations. Plus 5+ industry-supported projects. Synergy with international society and community activities.
- Publicity and Achievements: Push forward with research extensively to be recognized internationally as one of the leading research teams in intelligent software engineering for systems, business, and society through stronger industrial and international collaborations and getting more considerable funds, resulting in providing much value to society and contributing to bodies of knowledge.
- Team: A world-class professor will soon join our team. Expect new students and exchange students from various countries, resulting in much diversity contributing to our team’s creativity to advance the projects and professional contributions.
1. Society and Community Contributions
2023: Prof. Washizaki has been elected IEEE Computer Society 2025 President thanks to many encouragements and support. We hosted multiple major conferences at our campus, including IEEE CSEE&T, DSA, and IEEE AVS. Prof. Washizaki served as 1st Vice President of the IEEE Computer Society to lead its directions (under the leadership of Presidents) and moving forward activities, particularly SWEBOK Guide evolution and Strategic Activity Planning aligned with IEEE in 2050 report. Prof. Washizaki also contributed to other societies, including IPSJ SIGSE Chair and ISO/IEC/JTC1/SC7/WG20 Convenor. Prof. Washizaki has served as an outside director of SYSTEM INFORMATION and eXmotion to make tighter academia-industry collaboration. Furthermore, Prof. Washizaki has served in many roles, including COMPSAC/SIoT’ PC Co-Chair, SPLC Publication Chair, SEKE Asia Liaison, APSEC Steering Committee Member, and CSEE&T Steering Committee Member. Prof. Washizaki has continued serving as associate editor at various journals, including IEEE Trans. Emerging Topics in Computing and International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering.
2024: Prof. Washizaki serves as President-Elect at IEEE Computer Society to lead its directions (under the leadership of Presidents) and move forward activities, particularly the SWEBOK Guide V4 publication and its related products and activities, Junior program initiation, and other professional activities. Prof. Washizaki has continued serving in most of the roles since last year. In addition, Prof. Washizaki expands international collaboration and leading opportunities such as IEEE Cybermatics Congress 2024 General Co-Chair, IISA 2024 General Co-Chair, IEEE ISSRE 2024 Advisory Member, AsianPLoP 2024 Advisory Chair, COMPSAC/SIoT 2024 PC Chair, and APSEC 2024 Education track Co-Chair.
2. Projects
2023: We successfully conducted 10+ research and education projects, including funded and industry-supported ones as well as international collaboration-based ones. The sustainability transformation of SmartSE has been accepted for the large MEXT fund.
2024: We deepen and expand intelligent software engineering for systems, businesses, and society in the dynamic and uncertain era by integrating AI/ML/NLP into software development and operation, with mostly international and industrial collaborations. We will promote innovative research and educational projects through synergies with international society and community activities by applying research results to those activities, incorporating community perspectives into research activities, and promoting joint research based on community networks.
- AI/LLM/FM security continuum project (since 2023): Integrated engineering foundation for AI /LLM/FM security continuum
- JSPS KAKENHI-funded ML pattern project (since 2023): Engineering for machine learning software engineering patterns, including extraction, detection, and application
- JSPS KAKENHI-funded ME-ML project (since 2021): Data-driven NLP and ML-based software maintenance and evolution engineering
- JST MIRAI-funded eAI framework project (since 2020): Integrated engineering environment for modeling reliable machine learning application systems with patterns and MLOps integration
- Smart SE (since 2017): Lifelong and recurrent education and research program of IoT, AI, and DX
- K-12 STEM education project (since 2015): ICT club activities and workshops on introductory programming, AI, and related areas
- Goal-oriented digital business research project (since 2013): Alignment of digital business goals, strategies, measurements, and organization
In addition, we conduct 5+ industry-supported projects in Agile metrics, log analysis and UX improvement, code metrics, bug reports processing, knowledge management, and standards.
3. Publicity and Achievements (List of publications)
2023: We published 3 papers and got 3 acceptances in journals. We presented 26 international conference and workshop papers and posters and got 3 acceptances. We edited and contributed to 1 book, 2 proceedings, 1 special issue, and 1 leaflet. Prof. Washizaki presented 33 keynotes and invited talks. Our activities have been reported frequently in many news media. We received 17 awards, incl. Best Paper Awards at IEEE Computer and IEEE ICEBE, many student contest awards, and Smart SE enPiT-Pro Highest Evaluation. We mostly achieved the goal stated last January but have to do more impactful and more contributing to society and humanity in 2024 by making projects larger, deeper, and more internationalized.
2024: Through synergies with international society and community activities, we push forward with innovative research extensively to be recognized internationally as one of the leading research teams in intelligent software engineering for systems, business, and society through stronger industrial and international collaborations and getting more considerable funds, resulting in providing much value to society and contributing to bodies of knowledge. Many of our research achievements in the form of methods, practices, and tools shall be continuously used to produce actual values through our local and global partners. We care about the venue to present our achievements rather than quantitative goals for the number of publications; venues should be top conferences/journals or ones leading to in-depth discussions and collaborations.
4. Team Organization
2023: Our team has grown larger and more diverse. Multiple exchange students have stayed and had exemplary achievements in collaboration.
2024: A world-class professor will soon join our team to strengthen our research and collaboration. Like last year, we expect some new students from various countries, particularly Ph.D. candidate students. We continue welcoming highly qualified exchange students. Our team is growing and has more national origins, backgrounds, and mindsets. Such diversity contributes to our team’s creativity to advance the projects mentioned above and professional contributions.
- 2 professors, 1 visiting professor, 1 visiting associate professor (subject to change)
- 3-5 Ph.D. candidates
- 15+ master, 8-10 undergraduates
- 10+ research project students
- And, many visiting researchers and collaborators