I am honoured to receive this award along with my colleagues Giulio, Max, Foutse. This work would not have been possible without KamelÃs work, who was M.Sc. student at the time. To all, our colleagues, readers, and CASCON community, I give my thanks for this award. I still recall that one of my very first papers was published at CASCON in 2004 and that, since then, CASCON has always held a special place in my heart. With this paper we showed that not all bug reports are equal and propose the first approach to classify bug reports between ìtrueî bugs and enhancements, thus increasing the quality of any subsequent bug prediction models. This work was used in many subsequent works and replicated few years later to the benefit of bug prediction models and their users.
Yann-GaÎl GuÈhÈneuc is full professor at the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering of Concordia University since 2017, where he leads the Ptidej team on evaluating and enhancing the quality of the software systems, focusing on the Internet of Things and researching new theories, methods, and tools to understand, evaluate, and improve the development, release, testing, and security of such systems. Prior, he was faculty member at Polytechnique MontrÈal and UniversitÈ de MontrÈal, where he started as assistant professor in 2003. In 2014, he was awarded the NSERC Research Chair Tier II on Patterns in Mixed-language Systems. In 2013-2014, he visited KAIST, Yonsei U., and Seoul National University, in Korea, as well as the National Institute of Informatics, in Japan, during his sabbatical year. In 2010, he became IEEE Senior Member. In 2009, he obtained the NSERC Research Chair Tier II on Software Patterns and Patterns of Software. In 2003, he received a Ph.D. in Software Engineering from University of Nantes, France, under Professor Pierre Cointe's supervision. His Ph.D. thesis was funded by Object Technology International, Inc. (now IBM Ottawa Labs.), where he worked in 1999 and 2000. In 1998, he graduated as engineer from …cole des Mines of Nantes. His research interests are program understanding and program quality, in particular through the use and the identification of recurring patterns. He was the first to use explanation-based constraint programming in the context of software engineering to identify occurrences of patterns. He is interested also in empirical software engineering; he uses eye-trackers to understand and to develop theories about program comprehension. He has published papers in international conferences and journals, including IEEE TSE, Springer EMSE, ACM/IEEE ICSE, IEEE ICSME, and IEEE SANER. He was the program co-chair and general chair of several events, including IEEE SANER'15, APSEC'14, and IEEE ICSM'13.
