PhD Graduates
Promotion of young talents to professors
Amongst my many PhD and Post-Doc students, these were promoted to professors in highly reputed universities:
- Sebastian Proksch, TU Delft, Netherlands
- Jürgen Cito, TU Wien, Austria
- Philipp Leitner, Chalmers Univ, Sweden
- Martin Pinzger, Univ Klagenfurt, Austria (former: TU Delft, Netherlands)
- Michele Lanza, USI, Switzerland
Principal PhD Thesis Advisor
I've had the privilege of supervising the following PhD graduates:
2021 (exp.) | Christoph Laaber | Working title: Performance Engineering with Software Benchmarks |
2021 (exp.) | Adelina Ciurumelea |
Working title: Learning the Naturalness of Source Code Comments for Better Code Documentation |
2021 (exp.) | Giovanni Grano | Working title: Test Case Effectiveness in Automated Testing |
2020 | Carmine Vassallo |
Principle-Driven Continuous Integration: Simplifying Failure Discovery and Raising Anti-Pattern Awareness |
2020 | Carol Alexandru | Efficient Software Evolution Analysis |
2019 | Gerald Schermann | Continuous Experimentation for Software Developers |
2018 | Jürgen Cito | Software Runtime Analytics for Developers |
2012 | Giacomo Ghezzi | SOFAS, Software Analysis as a Service: Improving and Rethinking Software Evolution Analysis |
2012 | Michael Würsch | Hawkshaw: A Query Framework for Software Evolution Data |
2012 | Emanuel Giger | Fine-grained Code Changes and Bugs: Improving Software Defect Prediction |
2012 | Amancio Bouza | Hypothesis-Based Collaborative Filtering: Retrieving Like-Minded Individuals Based on the Comparison of Hypothesized Preferences |
2012 | Matthias Hert | OntoAccess: RDF-based Read and Write Access to Relational Databases |
2012 | Sandro Boccuzzo | Sensing Software Evolution: Software Exploration with Audio-Tactile Cognitive Visualization |
2009 | Ksenia Wahler | A Framework for Integrated Process and Object Life Cycle Modeling |
2008 | Beat Fluri | Change Distilling: Enriching Software Evolution Analysis with Fine-Grained Source Code Change Histories |
2007 | Jacek Ratzinger | sPACE – Software Process Assessment in the Course of Evolution |
2006 | Michael Fischer | EvoZilla - Longitudinal Evolution Analysis of Large Scale Software Systems |
2005 | Martin Pinzger | ArchView - Analyzing Evolutionary Aspects of Complex Software Systems |
2005 | Gerald Reif |
PhD Co-Advisor / Co-Examiner
I've been co-advisor and/or co-examiner for: