Publications.

Peer-reviewed Papers

• Jaechang Nam, Wei Fu, Sunghun Kim, Tim Menzies, and Lin Tan, Heterogeneous Defect Prediction, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2017.2720603 [IEEE Xplore] [PDF]
• Song Wang, Jaechang Nam, and Lin Tan, QTEP: Quality-aware Test Case Prioritization, in Proceedings of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2017), Paderborn, Germany, September 04 – 08, 2017. (Acceptance rate: 24.4%) [PDF]
• Taek Lee, Jaechang Nam, Donggyun Han, Sunghun Kim, and Hoh Peter In, Developer Micro Interaction Metrics for Software Defect Prediction, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2016. DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2016.2550458 [IEEE Xplore]
• Jaechang Nam and Sunghun Kim, CLAMI: Defect Prediction on Unlabeled Datasets, in Proceedings of the 30th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2015), Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, November 9 - 13, 2015. (Acceptance rate: 20.8%) [PDF] [Tool]
• Jaechang Nam and Sunghun Kim, Heterogeneous Defect Prediction, in Proceedings of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2015), Bergamo, Italy, August 31 - September 4, 2015. (Acceptance rate: 25.4%) [PDF]
• Mijung Kim, Jaechang Nam, Jaehyuk Yeon, Soonhwang Choi, and Sunghun Kim, REMI: Defect Prediction for Efficient API Testing, in Proceedings of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2015, Industrial track), Bergamo, Italy, August 31 - September 4, 2015. (Acceptance rate: 33%) [PDF]
• Dongsun Kim, Jaechang Nam, Jaewoo Song, and Sunghun Kim, Automatic Patch Generation Learned from Human-written Patches, in Proceedings of 35th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2013), San Francisco, May 18-26, 2013. (Acceptance rate: 18.5%) [Slides ] ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award Winner [PDF]
• Jaechang Nam, Sinno Jialin Pan, and Sunghun Kim, Transfer Defect Learning, in Proceedings of 35th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2013), San Francisco, May 18-26, 2013. (Acceptance rate: 18.5%) [Slides ] Nominee, ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award [LINK]
• Taek Lee, Jaechang Nam, Donggyun Han, Sunghun Kim, and Hoh Peter In, Micro Interaction Metrics for Defect Prediction, in Proceedings of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2011), Szeged, Hungary, September 5-9, 2011. (Acceptance rate: 16.7%) [LINK]
• Jaechang Nam, David Schuler, and Andreas Zeller, Calibrated Mutation Testing, in Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Mutation Analysis (Mutation 2011), Berlin, 2011. [PDF]
• Jaechang Nam, Trust Framework of Ubiquitous Healthcare with Advanced Petri Net Model, in Proceeding of First International ICST Conference on Electronic Healthcare for the 21st century (eHealth 2008), London, 2008. [PDF]

Technical/Project Report

• Jaechang Nam, Survey on Software Defect Prediction, HKUST PhD Qualifying Examination, July 3, 2014. [PDF] [Slide]
• Daniel Dietsch, Andreas Podelski, Jaechang Nam, Pantelis M. Papadopoulos, and Martin Schäf, Monitoring Student Activity in Collaborative Software Development, arXiv:1305.0787 [cs.CY], 2013. [PDF]
• Jaechang Nam and Ning Chen, Mining Crash Fix Patterns, arXiv:1311.1895 [cs.SE], 2013. [PDF]

Dissertation

• Jaechang Nam, Software Defect Prediction on Unlabeled Datasets, PhD Thesis, 2015. [PDF] [Slide]
• Jaechang Nam, Component Reusability Analysis for Exchanging Electronic Health Records, Master's Thesis, 2009. [PDF]

Education

• 2009 ~ 2015 : The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong - PhD in Computer Science and Engineering
• 2007 ~ 2009 : Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden - Master of Science (MSc) in Computer Science
• 1998 ~ 2002 : Handong Global University, Korea - Bachelor of Management / Engineering in Computer Science

Work Experience

• Postdoctoral Fellow @Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo, ON, Canada, Sep. 2015 ~ now.
• Fellow @International Institute for Software Techinlogy at United Nations University, Macau, Jun. 2012 ~ Aug. 2013.
• Instructor @Yanbian University of Science and Technology, China, Course: Software Engineering, 2012 Summer.
• Internship @Software Engineering Chair at Saarland University, Germany, Jun. 2010 ~ Aug. 2010.
• Teaching Assistant @CSE Department at HKUST
  COMP3111/H: Introduction to Software Engineering (2010 Spring:Lab, 2011 Spring:Lab, 2012 Spring:Project Master, 2013 Fall:Tutorial and Lab, and 2014 Spring:Project Master.)
  COMP1022P: Introduction to Computing with Java (2011 Fall)
• Freelance Software Engineer, Korea, Oct. 2005 ~ Jun. 2007.
• Program Development Officer (First lieutenant) @The 2nd Logistics Support Command in R.O.K. Army, Oct. 2003 ~ Jun. 2005.
• Head of Computer Center (Second lieutenant) @The 16th Supply Battalion in R.O.K. Army, Sep. 2002 ~ Sep. 2003.
• Research Assistant @GIS institute at Handong Global University, Korea, Jun. 1999 ~ Dec. 2001.

Academic Service

Journal

• IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2015, 2016, 2017, Reviewer
• ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2017, Reviewer
• Automated Software Engineering (Springer), 2017, Reviewer
• Information and Software Technology (Elsevier), 2016, 2017, Reviewer
• Empirical Software Engineering (Springer), 2013, 2015, 2016, Reviewer
• Software Quality Journal (Springer), 2016, Reviewer
• Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (Wiley), 2016, Reviewer

Conference/Workshop

• The 13th International Conference on Predictive Models and Data Analytics in Software Engineering (PROMISE 2017), PC member
• The 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2017), PC member
• The 8th IEEE International Workshop on Empirical Software Engineering in Practice (IWESEP 2017), Program co-chair
• The 8th International Symposium on Search Based Software Engineering (SSBSE 2016), Subreviewer
• The 23rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2016), Subreviewer
• The 12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR2015), MSR Challenge Committee
• The Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE2014), Artifact Evaluation Committee
• European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2013), Subreviewer
• The 6th India Software Engineering Conference (ISEC 2013), Subreviewer

Invited Talk

• Software Defect Prediction: Trends and Challenges, MSR Asia Summit, Tokyo, Japan, March 2017.

Applications

• Lifove Bible (Multi-language Bible Viewer for Android), 2010.
  Introduced and interviewed in one of Korean newpapers: [1] [2] [3]
  Successor: KeepBible
• Lifove Hymns (Korean Hymns Lyrics Viewer for Android), 2010. (Initial version developer. Now published by Holysoft)
• NLTC Evaluation System (Education Information System), 2006.
• Article Archive(Cache) Sever (for PUST), 2006.
• Army Vehicle Insurance Management System (Confidential), 2004.
• Operation Map Information System (Web(SVG)-based Map Application for The 2nd Logistics Support Command, Secret), 2003.
• EDWGIS (Environmental Data Web GIS System, not available), 2001.
• Cyber Image Information System for KICT (Web-based Satellite Image Trading Market, prototype), 2001.
• GIS815 Cyber Research Community (Web-based Research Community, not available), 1999.

Others

• Korean Blog (Tistory) for graduate students.

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