Who Am I

I am a PhD student and currently working as a researcher at the Software Engineering chair at Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Andreas Zeller. Our group is part of CISPA (Center for IT-Security, Privacy and Accountability). I am funded by Microsoft Research through its PhD Scholarship programme.

Interests

My main area of interest lies in empirical software engineering and mining software repositories. I am interested in improving software quality regarding reliability and security. In the past years I’ve investigated software archives such as version control systems and issue tracking systems to analyze problems in the software developing process. It is my strong belief, that leveraging information from a projects history can help us prevent future mistakes, speed up the development process and increase the overall quality of the software. I see a lot of potential in semi- and full automated approaches yielding oracles, tests, and analyses (and tools built upon these) to support and improve the software development process.

Experience

Internships

Teaching

My teaching experience focuses on software engineering and teaching students topics related to requirements engineering,  software design, implementation, quality assurance und project management.

IT Administration

I’ve worked as systems and network administrator at the Software Engineering chair from 2006 to 2010.