[March 2023] I have been nominated for the IT Faculty Pedagogical Prize 2023. Wow! I’m super glad and honored by the nomination.

[March 2023] I’m hiring a PhD student in Software Engineering for Human-Centric Autonomous Systems. You can find more information and apply until April 14 here. Please spread the word!

[March 2023] Our EASE'23 paper “Investigating Software Engineering Artifacts in DevOps Through the Lens of Boundary Objects” was accepted. It is joined work with Christoph Matthies and Robert Heinrich.

[January 2023] The course that I redesigned and taught last semester got a really good course evaluation. You can find some of the students’ comments here. It was a BSc-level course on software processes.

[November 2022] Javier Cámara, Bradley Schmerl, David Garlan, and I got a paper accepted to the Journal of Systems and Software (JSS). It is called “ExTrA: Explaining Architectural Design Tradeoff Spaces via Dimensionality Reduction”.

I am interested in human-on-the-loop autonomous systems. These self-adaptive systems adapt their behavior or structure in response to changes in their environment. They commonly interact with humans. Self-adaptive systems make a lot of decisions autonomously. It is still desirable to involve humans and help them make decisions that are difficult to automate. Those decisions are often connected to tradeoffs, e.g., when deciding how much to prioritize different competing quality attributes (such as security, performance, and cost). It is often difficult for humans to understand the consequences of decisions and to specify decision criteria. When is it worth it to ramp up security features, although that might compromise performance? Those trade-offs depend on the current context of the system and what is desirable might change over time.

To address these issues, I create techniques to explain self-adaptive systems and to capture people’s (potentially changing) preferences. I also do empirical research to study these problems in large-scale industrial settings.

My research focuses on the following questions:

• How can we elicit preferences and goals that people deem important in self-adaptive systems? [REFSQ 2021, REJ 2022]
• How can we improve the quality of self-adaptive systems and ensure that systems meet humans’ needs over time? [SEAMS 2022]
• How can quality tradeoffs be explained to humans, so that it is easier to understand how self-adaptive systems behave? [JSS 2022 (Wohlrab et al.)]
• How can systems be monitored to ensure that safety and security constraints are fulfilled, but so that we can reduce energy consumption and required bandwidth? [CNS'22, JSS 2022 (Vierhauser et al.)]
• How can human engineers in large organizations share knowledge effectively over time? [JSME 2019, ICSA 2019, JSS 2020]

Program Committee Member and Reviewer

• SEAMS 2023, PC Member

• ICSA 2023, PC Member

• RE 2023, PC Member

• ICSE SEIP 2023, PC Member

• SE 2023, PC Member

• ICSA 2022, PC Member

• ICSSP/ICGSE 2022, PC Member

• Automotive Software Engineering Workshop 2022, PC Member

• ICSA 2021, PC Member

• ICSSP/ICGSE 2021, PC Member

• RE@Next! Track at RE 2021, PC Member

• ICSSP/ICGSE Doctoral Symposium 2021, PC Member

• Automotive Software Engineering Workshop 2021, PC Member

• ICSSP/ICGSE 2020, PC Member

• ICSSP 2019, PC Member

• REFSQ'2018, Sub-Reviewer

• Information and Software Technology, Reviewer

• Communications of the ACM, Reviewer

• IEEE Software, Reviewer

• Empirical Software Engineering, Reviewer

• Journal of Systems & Software, Reviewer

• Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, Reviewer

Conference Organization

• SE 2023, Student Research Competition Co-Chair
• EASE 2022, Industrial PC Co-Chair
• RE 2022, Posters and Tool Demo Co-Chair
• ICSA 2022, Publication Co-Chair
• SEAMS 2022, Proceedings Chair
• RE 2021, Publicity & Social Media Chair
• SPLC 2018, Student Volunteers Chair
• ICSE 2018, Student Volunteer
• ICSE 2017, Student Volunteer
• ICSA 2017, Student Volunteer
• SPLC 2017, Student Volunteer