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Education

• Doctor of Engineering, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan, 2024

• Master of Engineering, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan, 2022

Work Experience

• 2024 - Present: Assistant Professor
  • Kyushu University, Japan
  • Part of the POSL (Principles of Software engineering and programming Languages) Lab.
• 2020 - 2024: Research Assistant
  • Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Publications

ThinkLog: Leveraging Reasoning for Log Statement Generation

Published in The 26th International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security (QRS), 2026 (Short Paper)

Kazuki Kusama, Honglin Shu, Masanari Kondo, Tao Xiao, Yasutaka Kamei [pdf]

How Well Do LLMs Generate Taxonomies in the SE Domain? A Multi-perspective Evaluation Framework

Published in The 41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), 2026

Sota Nakashima, Yuta Ishimoto, Masanari Kondo, Tao Xiao, Yasutaka Kamei [pdf (placeholder)]

Self-Admitted GenAI Usage in Open-Source Software

Published in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2026

Tao Xiao, Youmei Fan, Fabio Calefato, Christoph Treude, Raula Gaikovina Kula, Hideaki Hata, Sebastian Baltes [pdf]

Exploring the Potential of Program Flowcharts on Code Generation Using Multimodal LLMs

Published in The 26th International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security (QRS), 2026

Yuki Toi, Tao Xiao, Kazushi Tomoto, Masanari Kondo, Yasutaka Kamei [pdf]

Cross-Project Flakiness: A Case Study of the OpenStack Ecosystem

Published in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2026

Tao Xiao, Dong Wang, Shane McIntosh, Hideaki Hata, Yasutaka Kamei [pdf]

How Far Have LLMs Come Toward Automated SATD Taxonomy Construction?

Published in 32nd Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, 2025 (Early Research Achievements)

Sota Nakashima, Yuta Ishimoto, Masanari Kondo, Tao Xiao, Yasutaka Kamei [pdf]

AILINKPREVIEWER: Enhancing Code Reviews with LLM-Powered Link Previews

Published in 32nd Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, 2025 (Tool Demonstration)

Panya Trakoolgerntong, Tao Xiao, Masanari Kondo, Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul, Morakot Choetkiertikul, Pattaraporn Sangaroonsilp, Yasutaka Kamei [pdf]

“My GitHub Sponsors profile is live!” Investigating the Impact of Twitter/X Mentions on GitHub Sponsors

Published in 46th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2024

Youmei Fan, Tao Xiao, Christoph Treude, Hideaki Hata, Kenichi Matsumoto [pdf]

Quantifying and Characterizing Clones of Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Build Systems

Published in Empirical Software Engineering (ESE), 2024

Tao Xiao, Zhili Zeng, Dong Wang, Hideaki Hata, Shane McIntosh, Kenichi Matsumoto [pdf]

A Mutation-Guided Assessment of Acceleration Approaches for Continuous Integration: An Empirical Study of Yourbase

Published in 21st IEEE International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2024

Zhili Zeng, Tao Xiao, Maxime Lamothe, Hideaki Hata, Shane McIntosh [pdf]

DevGPT: Studying Developer-ChatGPT Conversations

Published in 21st IEEE International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2024 (Mining Challenge Proposal)

Tao Xiao, Christoph Treude, Hideaki Hata, Kenichi Matsumoto [pdf]

Generative AI for Pull Request Descriptions: Adoption, Impact, and Developer Interventions

Published in The ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2024

Tao Xiao, Hideaki Hata, Christoph Treude, Kenichi Matsumoto [pdf]

How Trustworthy Is Your Continuous Integration (CI) Accelerator?: A Comparison of the Trustworthiness of CI Acceleration Products

Published in IEEE Software, 2024

Zhili Zeng, Tao Xiao, Maxime Lamothe, Hideaki Hata, Shane McIntosh [pdf]

More than React: Investigating the Role of Emoji Reaction in GitHub Pull Requests

Published in Empirical Software Engineering (ESE), 2023

Dong Wang, Tao Xiao, Teyon Son, Raula Gaikovina Kula, Takashi Ishio, Yasutaka Kamei, Kenichi Matsumoto [pdf]

18 million links in commit messages: purpose, evolution, and decay

Published in Empirical Software Engineering (ESE), 2023

Tao Xiao, Sebastian Baltes, Hideaki Hata, Christoph Treude, Raula Gaikovina Kula, Takashi Ishio, Kenichi Matsumoto [pdf]

Understanding the Role of Images on Stack Overflow

Published in 20th IEEE International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2023

Dong Wang, Tao Xiao, Christoph Treude, Raula Gaikovina Kula, Hideaki Hata, Yasutaka Kamei [pdf]

GitHub Sponsors: Exploring a New Way to Contribute to Open Source

Published in 44th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2022

Shimada Naomichi, Tao Xiao, Hideaki Hata, Christoph Treude, Kenichi Matsumoto [pdf]

Understanding Shared Links and Their Intentions to Meet Information Needs in Modern Code Review: A Case Study of the OpenStack and Qt Projects

Published in Empirical Software Engineering (ESE), 2021

Dong Wang, Tao Xiao, Patanamon Thongtanunam, Raula Gaikovina Kula, Kenichi Matsumoto [pdf]

Characterizing and Mitigating Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Build Systems

Published in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2021

Tao Xiao, Dong Wang, Shane Mcintosh, Hideaki Hata, Raula Gaikovina Kula, Takashi Ishio, Kenichi Matsumoto [pdf]

More Than React: Investigating The Role of Emoji Reaction in GitHub Pull Requests

Published in 37th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), 2021 (Registered Report)

Teyon Son, Tao Xiao, Dong Wang, Raula Gaikovina Kula, Takashi Ishio, Kenichi Matsumoto [pdf]