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Academic Positions

Apr 2025 – present: Assistant Professor
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Osaka
Sep 2024 – Mar 2025: Specially Appointed Assistant Professor
Kyushu University

Apr 2022 – Sep 2024: Ph.D., Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University
Advisor: Prof. Yasutaka Kamei. Completed in two and a half years (early completion).
Apr 2020 – Mar 2022: Master of Information Science, Kyushu University
Advisor: Prof. Yasutaka Kamei. Included a research visit to USI Lugano, Switzerland (Prof. Gabriele Bavota, Prof. Michele Lanza).
Sep 2015 – Apr 2019: Bachelor of Engineering, Software Engineering, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada

Apr 2021 – Oct 2021: Software Quality Engineer (R&D), Apple Japan, Kanagawa
Designed and deployed machine-learning pipelines to categorize, cluster and triage Siri bug reports and test failures.
May 2018 – Sep 2018: Cognitive Automation Developer, Société Générale Corporate and Investment Banking, Montréal
Built automation bots, browser automation and OCR tools in Python, from requirements to deployment.
May 2017 – Dec 2017: HPC Junior System Analyst, Shared Services Canada, Montréal
Contributed to the open-source MetPX Sarracenia project; developed daemons collecting real-time meteorological data nationwide.
May 2016 – Jan 2017: Undergraduate Research Assistant, Data-driven Analysis of Software Lab, Concordia University
Supervised by Prof. Emad Shihab as an NSERC USRA recipient; mined GitHub repositories and npm packages and surveyed developers on trivial packages (ESEC/FSE 2017).

2024 – 2028: Advancing Software Engineering Tasks Based on Building Functional Equivalent Method Datasets
JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), JP24H00692 · Co-investigator (PI: Prof. Yoshiki Higo)

2021: Selected as a Fukuoka Goodwill Ambassador to promote relations between Japan and Canada
2016: NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

2025: “My Fuzzers Won't Build: An Empirical Study of Fuzzing Build Failures”
ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2025), Journal-First Track, Trondheim, Norway
2025: “My Fuzzers Won't Build: An Empirical Study of Fuzzing Build Failures”
IPSJ/SIGSE Software Engineering Symposium (SES 2025)
2024: “The Human Side of Fuzzing: Challenges Faced by Developers during Fuzzing Activities”
ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2024), Journal-First Track, Porto de Galinhas, Brazil
2024: “The Human Side of Fuzzing: Challenges Faced by Developers during Fuzzing Activities”
IPSJ/SIGSE Software Engineering Symposium (SES 2024)

French and English (fluent) · Japanese (professional proficiency; teaches university courses in Japanese)