Natarajan Chadambaram successfully depended his PhD on bot identification in GitHub.
natarajan-chidambaram.github.io
The thesis can be found here
orbi.umons.ac.be/handle/20.50...
(click on the Request Acess button if you want to obtain it)

We did a preliminary analysis of the presence of bots in the NumFocus ecosystem, and how their activities are differing from human activities
Presented this week during the ICSE 2025 BotSE workshop by Natarajan Chidambaram

This week during the ICSE 2025 workshop on bots in software engineering (BotSE), Natarajan Chidambaram presented our dataset, BIMBAS classification model and RABBIT open source tool for detecting bot accounts in GitHub repositories. All material is available online.

Award of the MSR2025 Distinguished Dataset to Youness Hourri, Alexandre Decan and yours truly.
2025.msrconf.org/details/msr-...

The UMONS Software Engineering Lab wishes you a wonderful holiday season filled with happiness, love and health !