Tasha Settewong
Master's Student in Information Science
I am a Master's degree student in Information Science at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), specializing in the Software Engineering Lab. Under the guidance of Professor Raula Gaikovina Kula and Assistant Professor Youmei Fan, my research focuses on the empirical analysis of software development processes, developer productivity, and the application of Generative AI in coding environments like Jupyter Notebooks.

Skills
Programming Languages
- Intermediate: C, Java, Python, SQL
- Basic: JavaScript, HTML/CSS, NoSQL
Testing & Productivity Tools
- Testing: Selenium, Robot Framework, Postman
- Productivity: Notion, Jira, Miro, Slack
Soft Skills
- Critical thinking
- Time management
- Teamwork
- Adaptability
- Communication
Research Interest
Documentation
Jupyter Notebooks
Generative AI
Software Engineering
Publications
Human to Document, AI to Code: Three Case Studies of Comparing GenAI for Notebook Competitions
Tasha Settewong, Youmei Fan, Raula Gaikovina Kula, Kenichi Matsumoto | 2nd ACM International Conference on AI-powered Software (AIware), 2025
Read Paper →Mining the Characteristics of Jupyter Notebooks in Data Science Projects
Choetkiertikul, M., Hoonlor, A., Ragkhitwetsagul, C., Pongpaichet, S., Sunetnanta, T., Tasha Settewong, Jiravatvanich, V, & Kaewpichai, U. | 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2023
Read Paper →Why Visualize Data When Coding? Preliminary Categories for Coding in Jupyter Notebooks
Tasha Settewong, Ritta, N., Kula, R. G., Ragkhitwetsagul, C., Sunetnanta, T., & Matsumoto, K. | 29th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC), 2022
Read Paper →Reusing My Own Code: Preliminary Results for Competitive Coding in Jupyter Notebooks
Ritta, N., Tasha Settewong, Kula, R. G., Ragkhitwetsagul, C., Sunetnanta, T., & Matsumoto, K. | 29th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC), 2022
Read Paper →Education
Master of Engineering, Information Science
Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
2024 - Present
Software Engineering Lab
Bachelor of Science, Software Engineering
Mahidol University
2019 - 2023
GPAX: 3.85 (First-Class Honors). Received merit scholarship for academic year 2021.
Science-Mathematics Program
Rajinibon School
2013 - 2018
GPAX: 3.51
Experience
Junior Quality Assurance Engineer
Fastwork Technologies Co., Ltd.
Aug 2023 - Sep 2024
- Designed manual test cases for each sprint.
- Performed integration and E2E tests.
- Tracked task progression and reported issues via Jira.
- Created deployment plans and deployed services.
Software Tester Intern
SmileFOKUS CO.,LTD
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
- Analyzed business requirements and designed test cases.
- Performed UI tests with Python Selenium Robot Framework.
- Executed integration tests via Postman.
- Reported bug reports to the development team via Jira.
Researcher Intern
Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
- Managed over 240,000 data points using SQL.
- Applied association rule mining with Python to analyze data visualization.
- Published and presented research at APSEC 2022.
Researcher Intern
Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Jun 2021 - Aug 2021
- Researched Self-Admitted Technical Debt in software development.
- Analyzed over 900 data points using Python and Jupyter Notebook.
- Reported experiment results to professors and researchers.