Patanamon (Pick) Thongtanunam

School of Computing and Information Systems (CIS). The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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Dr. Patanamon Thongtanunam (or Pick) is a Senior Lecturer (equivalent to Associate Professor) at the School of Computing and Information Systems, the University of Melbourne.

Pick’s research interests include empirical software engineering, data mining, and data-driven techniques to support software engineering tasks. Her primary research goals are directed towards uncovering empirical evidence, extracting knowledge from data recorded in software repositories, gleans actionable insights for software engineering management, and developing automated approaches to support developers. Her research work and endeavour has received numerous prestigious awards including an Australian Research Councile (ARC) Discovery Early Career Research Award (2021 - 2024), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellowship (2016 - 2018), ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper award, IEEE Computer Society TCSE Distinguished Paper Award, as well as distinguished reviewer awards.

Contact: patanamon{dot}t{at}unimelb.edu.au

Recent Publications

2024

  1. ISSRE
    Code Ownership: The Principles, Differences, and Their Associations with Software Quality
    Patanamon Thongtanunam, and Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn
    In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, 2024
    Acceptance rate: 20% (42/2065)
  2. IST
    Don’t forget to change these functions! recommending co-changed functions in modern code review
    Yang Hong, Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn, Patanamon Thongtanunam, and Aldeida Aleti
    Information and Software Technology, 2024
  3. ISSTA
    An Empirical Study of Static Analysis Tools for Secure Code Review
    Wachiraphan Charoenwet, Patanamon Thongtanunam, Van-Thuan Pham, and Christoph Treude
    In Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), 2024
    Acceptance rate: 20% (143/694)
  4. ISSTA
    VRDSynth: Synthesizing Programs for Multilingual Visually Rich Document Information Extraction
    Thanh-Dat Nguyen, Tung Do-Viet, Hung Nguyen-Duy, Tuan-Hai Luu, Hung Le, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), 2024
    Acceptance rate: 20% (143/694)
  5. TOSEM
    Automatically Recommend Code Updates: Are We There Yet?
    Yue Liu, Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn, Yonghui Liu, Patanamon Thongtanunam, and Li Li
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2024
  6. EMSE
    Toward Effective Secure Code Reviews: An Empirical Study of Security-Related Coding Weaknesses
    Wachiraphan Charoenwet, Patanamon Thongtanunam, Van-Thuan Pham, and Christoph Treude
    Springer Journal of Empirical Software Engineering, 2024
  7. TOSEM
    Automatic Programming: Large Language Models and Beyond
    Michael R Lyu, Baishakhi Ray, Abhik Roychoudhury, Shin Hwei Tan, and Patanamon Thongtanunam
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2024
  8. Comp. Survey
    A Systematic Literature Review on Reasons and Approaches for Accurate Effort Estimations in Agile
    Jirat Pasuksmit, Patanamon Thongtanunam, and Shanika Karunasekera
    ACM Computing Surveys, 2024
  9. FSE
    Practitioners’ Challenges and Perceptions of CI Build Failure Predictions at Atlassian
    Yang Hong, Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn, Jirat Pasuksmit, Patanamon Thongtanunam, Arik Friedman, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2024
  10. MSR
    Curated Email-Based Code Reviews Datasets
    Mingzhao Liang, Wachiraphan Charoenwet, and Patanamon Thongtanunam
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, 2024
  11. MSR
    Improving Automated Code Reviews: Learning from Experience
    Hong Yi Lin, Patanamon Thongtanunam, Christoph Treude, and Wachiraphan Charoenwet
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, 2024
  12. MSR
    Encoding Version History Context for Better Code Representation
    Huy Nguyen, Christoph Treude, and Patanamon Thongtanunam
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, 2024

Recent Funding

  1. 1,200,000 AUD
    Co-leading the Responsible AI Software Engineering (RAISE) program with 9 industry partners to train 11 graduates (7 Ph.D., 1 Master, and 3 Honours) addressing the urgent need for deep expertise and excellent skills in Responsible AI Software Engineering for digital health, transportation, and defence sectors.
  2. 402,000 AUD
    For 3 years (2021 - )
    ARC DECRA Fellowship is the competitive fund which is awarded to Early Career Researchers in Australia to support excellent basic and applied research. Success rate (DE21): 200/1173 (17.1%) across all disciplines; 56/331 (16.9%) for the Engineering, Information and Computing Sciences discipline.

    Recent Awards

    1. MSR 2024 Ric Holt Early Career Achievement Award
      For their contributions to understanding and improving modern code review practices using mining software repositories techniques.
    2. CIS Excellence in Teaching & Education award (2023)
      For the outstanding leadership and service in the coordination of Master of Software Engeering program at the School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
    3. CIS Excellence in Engagement (ECR) award (2022)
      For the outstanding research achievements of Early Career Researchers at the School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne