Andreas Zeller

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• Mining Software Archives — What can we predict from the history of changes and errors? (A lot.)
• Automated Debugging — When a program fails, can we automatically determine the cause for the failure? (We can.)
• Mutation Testing — How can we tell whether a test suite is adequate even for large programs? (We can.)
• Mining Models — Can we generate abstractions that capture the common properties of multiple programs or runs? (Yes.)

• 2011-10-17: I have won an ERC Advanced Grant (the most prestigious EU research award) of up to 2.3 million € for a new project SPECMATE: Specification Mining and Testing.
• 2010-12-16: My post-doc Gordon Fraser and I have received a 750,000 US$ Google Focused Research Award for our work on software testing.
• 2010-12-08: I am now a Fellow of the ACM - "for contributions to automated debugging, and to mining software archives".
• 2010-09-29: My student Valentin Dallmeier has obtained the Ernst Denert award for Germany's best PhD thesis in Software Engineering.
• 2010-04-07: ICST 2010 Best Paper Award: "(Un)covering Equivalent Mutants" by David Schuler and Andreas Zeller.
• 2009-07-27: My paper "Yesterday, My Program Worked. Today, It Does Not. Why?" from ESEC/FSE 1999 has been selected to receive this year's ACM SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award. (This paper introduced delta debugging and was one of the first to leverage version histories for program analysis.) Watch my keynote talk!
• 2006-03-17: My book "Why Programs Fail" has won a Software Development Jolt Productivity Award! This is a great honor, and I am deeply grateful to the judges and organizers for this result.

• ESEC/FSE 2011: The 8th joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC) and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) 2011 (Program committee chair)
• ICSE 2011: International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2011 (Research Track - Program committee member; Tutorials - co-chair)
• ICSE 2012: International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2012 (PhD symposium - co-chair)

• My resume has a full record of my projects and publications.
• I have a reputation for being a good presenter. Here's a keynote I was pretty happy with.
• Here is a picture of me in high resolution (1950x1764 pixels).
• Here's a few thoughts on what makes good research and researchers.

• See the top of this page for my address, e-mail, and phone. E-mail me for iChat (AIM) or Skype contacts.
• If you are at the university, please meet me in my office in Building E1 1, Room 1.11. Official appointment hour (»Sprechstunde«) is Monday 2-3pm, but my office is normally open for visitors all day long.
• To meet me elsewhere, check out my travel calendar.
• Here are the directions to my home.

• The chair page holds recent resources for projects and courses.
• Here are some tips on how to give a good research talk.
• On average, I get 7-10 e-mails per week in which people apply for internships or open positions. We do not offer internships, nor do we have open positions right now; and I do not answer mails that are obviously mass mailings.
• I used to have a personal LaTeX style for my presentations (short intro). Today, though, I use and recommend Apple's Keynote.
• Zeller's Clock is an analog countdown clock for presenters and session chairs.

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