Scholar
Sven Apel
Google Scholar ID: _4ssMloAAAAJ
Professor of Computer Science, Saarland University, Saarland Informatics Campus
Citations & Impact
Citations
8,244
H-index
47
i10-index
156
Publications
20
Co-authors
183
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- ERC Advanced Grant (€2.5M, 2022–2027)
- ASE Fellow
- ACM Distinguished Member for Outstanding Scientific Contributions to Computing
- Hugo Junkers Award for Research and Innovation (State of Saxony-Anhalt)
- Member of the Young Academy of Europe
- Heisenberg Professorship (German Research Foundation)
- Emmy-Noether Fellowship (German Research Foundation)
- Best Doctoral Dissertation Award 2007 (University of Magdeburg & Karin-Witte Foundation)
- Software Engineering Award 2007 (Ernst-Denert Foundation)
- Outstanding Scientific Achievements Award 2006 (University of Magdeburg)
- Most Influential Paper Awards at SPLC'19, ICPC'22, GPCE'23
- ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards at ICSE'15, ICSE'21
- Best Paper Awards at SPLC'11, Modularity'15, Academy of Management'18
- Distinguished Reviewer Awards at ASE'18, ICSE'24, FSE'24
- Led numerous funded projects including Brains On Code, CPEC, Congruence, Pervolution, ExaStencils, SafeSPL++, Pythia, FeatureOpt, SafeSPL
Background
- Professor of Computer Science and Chair of Software Engineering at Saarland University
- Director of the Saarbrücken Graduate School of Computer Science
- Research vision: empowering software engineering practice to enter an era of intensive automation
- Develops methods, tools, and theories for building and analyzing efficient, reliable, maintainable, and configurable software systems
- Emphasizes the human factor and interdisciplinary research
- Key research interests: software variability and configuration, AI-based program generation and optimization, socio-technical software analysis, empirical and neurophysiological methods
- Applies research to real-world systems, including collaborations with Siemens AG, Bosch Engineering, and Airbus Helicopters
