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Paul completed his doctorate in the Software Systems Engineering (SSE) group under Prof. Pohl. His dissertation focused on preventing data protection violations in self-adaptive systems.

Xhulja pursued her PhD in the Software Systems Engineering (SSE) research group with Prof. Pohl. In her work, she addressed the question of how AI-supported predictions in software quality assurance can be made more reliable and thus more suitable for practical use.

The paper “ROPdefender: A Detection Tool to Defend Against Return-Oriented Programming Attacks” has received the Test of Time Award from ACM AsiaCCS, one of the leading international conferences in cybersecurity. Published in 2011, the work originated from Lucas Davi’s master’s thesis, which he wrote under the supervision of Dr. Marcel Winandy and Prof. Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi. Today, Lucas Davi is a professor and director of paluno – The Ruhr Institute for Software Technology.

On June 18, the Essen Science Summer kicks off with an opening event on the topic of Future Skills. Stefan Schneegaß will give a talk and contribute to the discussion from the perspective of human–computer interaction.

As part of a Dagstuhl seminar in May 2026, international researchers — including Andreas Metzger from the Software Systems Engineering group — explored what the future of process management will look like.

Generative AI is profoundly changing software engineering – not only how we write code, but also how entire software systems are developed and operated. In a new paper, Prof. Andreas Metzger and his co-authors develop a structured research roadmap.