Misoo Kim (CV / Google Scholar / ResearchGate)
Assistant Professor
SEMI Lab (Software Evolution & Maintenance with Intelligence Laboratory)
College of AI Convergence, School of Artificial Intelligence, Chonnam National University
email: misoo.kim@jnu.ac.kr
tel: 062.530.4234
Research Interests
Artificial Intelligence for Software Engineering
Software Engineering for Artificial Intelligence
Green SW debugging
Assistant Professor, College of AI Convergence, Chonnam National University, 2023.09 ~ Current
Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Software Convergence, Sungkyunkwan University, 2021.09 ~ 2023.08
Ph.D., Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, 2021.08
B.S., Division of Business Administration, Korea University, 2013.02
B.S., Department of Computer and Information Science (2nd Major)
Misoo Kim, Youngkyoung Kim, and Eunseok Lee, "Production and Test Bug Report Classification Based on Transfer Learning", Information and Software Technology, Vol.181, Article. 107685, May. 2025
Youngkyoung Kim, Misoo Kim, and Eunseok Lee, "Noisy Token Removal for Bug Localization: The Impact of Semantically Confusing Misguiding Terms", IEEE Access, Vol.12, pp.172396-172409, Nov. 2024
Quang Ngoc Phung, Misoo Kim, Eunseok Lee, "Identifying Incorrect Patches in Program Repair Based on Meaning of Source Code", IEEE Access, Vol.10, pp.12012- 2030, Jan.2022
Misoo Kim, Eunseok Lee, "Are Datasets for Information Retrieval-based Bug Localization Techniques Trustworthy?", Empirical Software Engineering (ESE), Vol.26, No.3, pp.1-66, Mar.2021 (GitHub)
Misoo Kim, Eunseok Lee, "ManQ: Many-objective optimization-based automatic query reduction for IR-based bug localization", Information and Software Technology (IST), Vol.125, Article. 106334, Sep. 2020 (GitHub)
Youngkyoung Kim, Misoo Kim, and Eunseok Lee, "Improving Transformer-based Program Repair Model Through False Behavior Diagnosis", The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Dec. 2023
Kicheol Kim, Misoo Kim, Eunseok Lee, "Systematic Analysis of Defect Specific Code Abstraction for Neural Program Repair", Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC), Feb. 2023
Misoo Kim*, Youngkyoung Kim*, Hohyeon Jeong*, Jinseok Heo*, Sungoh Kim, Hyunhee Chung, and Eunseok Lee, "An Empirical Study of Deep Transfer Learning-based Program Repair for Kotlin Projects", The ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE-Industry), pp.1441-1452, Nov. 2022 (PPT)
Misoo Kim*, Youngkyoung Kim*, Jinseok Heo, Hohyeon Jeong, Sungoh Kim, Eunseok Lee, "Impact of Defect Instances for Successful Deep Learning-based Automatic Program Repair", International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME-NIER), pp. 419-423, Oct. 2022 (PPT)
Misoo Kim, Youngkyoung Kim, Kicheol Kim, Eunseok Lee, "Multi-objective Optimization-based Bug-fixing Template Mining for Automated Program Repair", International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE-NIER), no.179, Oct.2022 (PPT)
Misoo Kim, Youngkyoung Kim, Eunseok Lee, "Deep Learning-based Production and Test Bug Report Classification using Source Files", International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion (ICSE-C), pp. 343-344, May. 2022 (PPT)
Jinyoung Kim, Misoo Kim, Eunseok Lee, "ECench: An Energy Bug Benchmark of Ethereum Client Software", International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), pp. 634-638, May. 2022
Misoo Kim, Youngkyoung Kim, Eunseok Lee, "How Does the First Buggy File Work Well for Iterative IR-based Bug Localization?", ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), pp. 1509-1516, April.2022 (PPT)
Youngkyoung Kim, Misoo Kim, and Eunseok Lee, "Feature Assortment for Deep Learning-based Bug Localization With a Program Graph", ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), pp. 1536-1544, April.2022
Misoo Kim, Youngkyoung Kim, Eunseok Lee, "An Empirical Study of IR-based Bug Localization for Deep Learning-based Software", International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), pp. 128-139, April.2022 (PPT) (GitHub)
Youngkyoung Kim, Misoo Kim, and Eunseok Lee, "Tracking Down Misguiding Terms for Locating Bugs in Deep Learning-based Software (Student Abstract)", AAAI Conference on Artificial intelligence (AAAI), pp.12983-12984, Feb.2022
Misoo Kim, Youngkyoung Kim, Eunseok Lee, "A Novel Automatic Query Expansion with Word Embedding for IR-based Bug Localization", International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE), pp. 276-287, Oct.2021 (PPT) (GitHub)
Misoo Kim, Youngkyoung Kim, Eunseok Lee, "Denchmark: A Bug Benchmark of Deep Learning-related Software", International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), pp. 540-544, May.2021 (PPT) (GitHub)
Youngkyoung Kim, Misoo Kim, and Eunseok Lee, "Feature Combination to Alleviate Hubness Problem of Source Code Representation for Bug Localization ", Proceedings of the 27th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC), pp. 511-512, Dec.2020
Misoo Kim, and Eunseok Lee, "A novel approach to automatic query reformulation for IR-based bug localization", Proceedings of the 34th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), pp.1752-1759, Apr.2019 (PPT)
Hohyeon Jeong, Misoo Kim, and Eunseok Lee, "Goal-based Code Generation for Intelligent CPS", Proceedings of the IEEE/IEIE International Conference on Consumer Electronics Asia (ICCE-Asia), Jun.2018
Misoo Kim, Eunseok Lee, "Are information retrieval-based bug localization techniques trustworthy?", Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion (ICSE-C), pp.248-249, May.2018 (Poster)
Misoo Kim, Hohyeon Jeong, and Eunseok Lee, "Dynamic Decision-making with Reflecting and Learning for Self-adaptive Systems", Proceedings on the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI), July.2016
Misoo Kim, "Information Retrieval-based Bug Localization for Korean Bug Reports using Translation", Journal of Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers (KIISE), Vol.51, No.9, pp.827-834, Sep.2024
Hohyeon Jeong, Misoo Kim, Phung Quang Ngoc, Eunseok Lee, "Recent Advances in AI-based Automatic Program Repair", Communications of the Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers (KIISE), Vol.38, No.4, pp.28-34, Apr. 2020
Misoo Kim, Saewon Min, Hyewon Joo, Seungeun Lee, Chaeeun Kim, Jiyeon Son, Eunji Jeong, Sunrye Park, Eunseok Lee, "Multi-label classifier based bug report meta-field enhancement for accurate fixer recommendation", WISET Junior Science & Technology Research Reports, Vol. 7, No. 63, pp. 400, 2017.12 [Awarded]
Misoo Kim, June Ahn, Eunseok Lee, "Bug Report Quality Prediction for Enhancing Performance of Information Retrieval-based Bug Localization", Journal of Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers (KIISE), Vol.44, No.8, pp.832-841, Aug.2017
Misoo Kim, Hohyeon Jeong, Eunseok Lee, "Dynamic Decision Making for Self-Adaptive Systems Considering Environment Information", Journal of Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers (KIISE), Vol.43, No.7, pp.801-811, Jul.2016 [Awarded]
Misoo Kim, Hohyeon Jeong, Eunseok Lee, "An Extended DDN based Self-Adaptive System", Journal of Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers (KIISE), Vol.42, No.7, pp.889-900, Jul.2015
Best Paper Award, Spring Conf. on KISM 2025, Jeongwoo Kim, Jaeoh Seo, Hanbin Im, Misoo Kim, "An Empirical Analysis of Korean Title Generation Using a Hierarchical Generation Approach"
Under-graduated Student Best Paper Award, KSC 2024,Hyemin Jo, Jeongwoo Kim, Dohyun Lee, Misoo Kim, "Building a Korean Mental Disorder Prediction Model: Utilizing Translation and Domain Tuning"
Best Paper Award, ACK 2024, Sangjoon Park, Misoo Kim, "Performance Impact Analysis of Window Size and Threshold Based on Risk Tolerance in HIDS"
Best Paper Award, KCSE 2022, Jinyoung Kim, Misoo Kim, Eunseok Lee, "Analysis of Gas Impacts on Upgrade Strategy of Ethereum Smart Contract"
Best Paper Award, KSC 2021, Youngkyoung Kim, Misoo Kim, Eunseok Lee, "Malicious Word Identification for Information Retrieval-based Bug Localization"
Second Prize in Superior Research, 2021, College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University
Minister of MSIT Prize, Postgraduate-led Student Research Team 2017, Misoo Kim, Multi-label classifier based bug report meta-field enhancement for accurated fixer recommendation
Best Paper Award, KSII 2017, Saewon Min, Misoo Kim, Eunseok Lee, "An Impact Analysis of Meta-field of Initial Bug Report on Developer Assignment Time"
Annual Best Paper Award, Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers (KIISE) 2017, Misoo Kim, Hohyeon Jeong, Eunseok Lee, "Dynamic Decision Making for Self-Adaptive Systems Considering Environment Information"
Best Paper Award, KCSE 2017, Misoo Kim, June Ahn, Eunseok Lee, "Quality Prediction and Automated Reformulation Technique of Bug Reports for Enhancing Performance of Information Retrieval-based Bug Localization"
Bronze Prize, OSS (Open Source Software) World Challenge 2016, Jeongho Kim, Misoo Kim, "SWQ&R"
Best Paper Award, KCSE 2016, Misoo Kim, Hohyeon Jeong, Eunseok Lee, "Dynamic Decision Making for Self-Adaptive Systems Considering Environment Information"
Best Paper Award, KCSE 2015, Misoo Kim, Hohyeon Jeong, Eunseok Lee, "An Extended DDN based Self-Adaptive System"
Eunseok Lee, Hohyeon Jeong, Misoo Kim, "Goal model-based Code Generation for Intelligent CPS Software" (Pending, 10-2018-0064541, 2018.06.04)
PC Member: ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), 2025-2026
PC Member: Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2026
Reviewer: Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025
Reviewer: Annual Conference of Korean Information Processing Society, 2024
Reviewer: Journal of Korean Institute of Smart Media, 2024
Reviewer: IEEE Access, 2024
Reviewer: Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), 2023
2024~Present: Development of Hyper-Wide Federated AI Technology for Cardiovascular Disease, Institute of Information & communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP) (2024.07.01~2031.12.31)
2024~Present: Development of software reliability improvement technology through identification of abnormal open sources and automatic application of DevSecOps, Institute of Information & communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP) (2024.06.01~2026.12.31)
2024~Present: Establishing a Korean Bug Benchmark to Automated Software Debugging, Chonnam National University, (2024.03.01~2025.02.28) (Principal Investigator)
2023~Present: Validating of Automatic Bug Localization Techniques with Korean bug reports, Chonnam National University, (2023.09.01~2025.02.28) (Principal Investigator)
2023~2023: Transformer-based Automatic Bug Fixing for Deep Learning Software, Chonnam National University, (2023.09.01~2023.12.31) (Principal Investigator)
2021~2023: Validating and Improving of Automatic Debugging Techniques for Deep Learning-based Software, Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT), (2021.09.01~2024.08.31) (Principal Investigator)
2019~Present: Automated Program Repair Technique and Integrated Framework for Debugging Automation, Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT), (2019.03.01~2024.02.28)
2018~2021: A Personalized Recommendation Technique of Open Source Software and Code, Ministry of Education and Science Technology (MEST), (2018.06.01~2021.05.31) (Principal Investigator)
2017~2018: Development of Platform for Intelligent CPS Software Development and Operation, Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning(MSIP), (2017.09.01~2018.8.31)
2016~2019: Automatic Bug Report Reconstruction Technique for Efficient Information-Retrieval-based Fault Localization, Ministry of Education and Science Technology (MEST), (2016.11.01~2019.10.31)
2017~2017: Multi-label classifier based bug report meta-field enhancement for accurate fixer recommendation, Postgraduate-led Student Research Team: Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning(MSIT), (2017.04.01~2017.10.31) (Principal Investigator) [Minister of MSIT Prize]
2014 ~ 2017: Development of a Technique for Self-Growing Adaptation Strategy based on Collective Intelligence, Ministry of Education and Science Technology (MEST), (2012.07.01~2017.06.30)
2014 ~ 2015: Autonomic Fault Localization and Root Cause Detection in Source Code for Software Quality Improvement, Ministry of Education and Science Technology (MEST), (2012.05.01~2015.04.30)