Shinobu Saito is a Distinguished Researcher in the Computer and Data Science Laboratories at the NTT Corporation (Tokyo, Japan). His research interests are software requirements engineering, design recovery, business modeling, and business process management. He received his Ph.D. in system engineering at Keio University (Yokohama, Japan) in 2007. Saito was a visiting researcher at the Institute for Software Research (ISR) at the University of California, Irvine from 2016 to 2018.