Received the Ernst-Denert Software Engineering Award, an Emmy Noether grant (1.3 million Euro) by the DFG, an ERC Starting Grant (1.5 million Euro). Won best/distinguished paper awards at FSE (3x), ISSTA, ASE, ASPLOS, and MSR, and named an ACM Distinguished Member.
Research Experience
Was an assistant professor at TU Darmstadt, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, and a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich. Spent a sabbatical at Facebook, Menlo Park in 2019.
Education
Completed his Ph.D. on program analyses for automatic and precise error detection at ETH Zurich. Studied computer science at TU Dresden and engineering at Ecole Centrale Paris, and visited EPFL for his master thesis.
Background
Faculty member at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security and a full professor in the Computer Science Department of the University of Stuttgart. Also a faculty member in the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Intelligent Systems (IS) and a member in the Stuttgart ELLIS Unit.
Miscellany
Involved in organizing several international conferences such as FSE 2027 PC co-chair, ICSE 2026 Area chair, etc.