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

2017

Microsoft TSE Internship

Apr-Jul 2017: Research internship at Microsoft TSE (Tools for Software Engineers) with Kıvanç Muşlu.
2015

Microsoft Research Internship

May-Aug 2015: Research internship at Microsoft Research Cambridge in collaboration with TSE (Tools for Software Engineers) with Kim Herzig, Brendan Murphy and Jacek Czerwonka.

Teaching

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

Teaching experience timeline

2015

Software Design Labs

Block course—Reviewer
2014

Software Design Labs

Block course—Organizer together with Andreas Rau
2013

Software Design Labs

Block course—Reviewer
2011

Software Engineering

Lecture—Customer
2010

Software Engineering

Lecture—Customer
2008

Software Design Labs

Block course—Organizer, supervising tutor (together with Kevin Streit), and tutor of 3 groups of students (5  people each)
2007

Software Design Labs

Block course—Tutor of 3 groups of 5 students
2006

Software Design Labs

Block course—Tutor of 3 groups of 5 students

IT Administration

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