I am leading the Sustainable Software Engineering Group at the University of Mannheim.  It is part of the Software Engineering Group.
I also work as an Oberassistant at the University of Zurich. Previously, I worked as a Senior researcher at the University of Zurich and a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bern.  I received my PhD (with honors) from the Software Composition Group. 
I also bring substantial industry experience in software engineering, having worked as a Software Engineer in testing at Samsung, as an Automation Engineer at VMware, and as a Software Developer at People Interactive Ltd.
These experiences allow me to approach software engineering challenges from both academic and industrial perspectives and find solutions accordingly. 

Software continuously evolves to keep up with user needs while simultaneously being required to be high-quality, stable, flexible, and sustainable. Consequently, it becomes complex, hard to understand, and maintain over time.  Since software development is a socio-technical area, it requires an understanding of human aspects, domain expertise, and technologies to facilitate development. 

Our research focuses on answering various interesting questions:

• How to build human-centered, sustainable, and responsible AI software systems?
• How to ensure and maintain the quality of software and its associated artifacts?
• How to leverage the socio-technical nature of software engineering to design better tools and techniques?

Some areas of interest: Sustainable and Green Software Engineering, Software activities (e.g., Code Review, Code Comprehension, Software Testing, Software Documentation). Please find details about some topics in the projects. 

We currently have openings for a  full-time PhD position  and a Postdoctoral position. 

If you consider applying, please read:

• The application should include a all required documents (e.g., CV, transcripts,  cover letter) and with appropriate email subject, or it will be ignored.
• Which publications in our team (see Research Publication) fit your current interest and expertise, and why?
• We generally do not offer short internships (3 months or less). Applications for such internships will be ignored.

Current Teachings

• Seminar: Green Software Engineering

Past Teachings

• Advanced Software Engineering, MSc Course, University of Zurich, 2025, 2026
• Seminar: Advanced Software Engineering, BSc and MSc course, University of Zurich, 2025–2026
• Seminar in Empirical Software Engineering,  BSc and MSc course, University of Zurich, 2024
• Seminar in Software Engineering, BSc and MSc course, University of Bern, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
• Software Modeling Analysis, MSc course, University of Bern, 2018, 2020
• Object-oriented Programming, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022

• FSE International Conference on Foundational Software Engineering, Research, 2025
• GREENS International Workshop on Green and Sustainable Software, 2024
• SANER International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering, 2024
• ESEM International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 2024
• MSR International Conference on Mining Software Repositories: 2022–2025
• ICSME International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution: NIER track, 2023
• ISEC Innovations in Software Engineering Conference: 2022-now
• NLBSE International Workshop on Natural Language-based Software Engineering: 2021-now
• IWST International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies: 2023-now
• EMSE Empirical Software Engineering: 2023–now
• TSE IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering: 2023
• EAAI Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence: 2023
• JSS Journal of Systems & Software: 2022
• TOSEM ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology: 2021-now
• IST Information and Software Technology: 2021-now

• EdiSE (Energy-driven Integration in Software Engineering), Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Project Grant, 2025, 500k CHF
• Career Support Grant, University of Zurich, Switzerland. 5k CHF, 2025
• Wuebben Foundation Fellowship-Appointment Accelerator Funding program, Germany,  2025,  800k EUR
• Research fellowship for Master’s from MHRD (Ministry of Human Research Development), India, 2015–2017

• Distinguished Paper Award at International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), Canada, 2025
• Distinguished Reviewer Award at International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), Melbourne, Australia, 2023
• Distinguished Service Award at International Workshop on Natural Language-based Software Engineering (NLBSE), Melbourne, Australia, 2023
• Best PhD Thesis Award in the computer science institutes of the University of Bern, Neuchâtel, and Fribourg, Bern, Switzerland, 2022
• Best Research Paper Award at International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies (IWST), Novi Sad, Serbia, 2022
• Best Presentation Award at Seminar Series on Advanced Techniques & Tools for Software Evolution (SATToSE), Athens, Greece, 2018
• Received the youngest employee of the year award in Samsung, Noida, India, 2012
• Secured 1st Rank in the three-year diploma program, Ambala, India, 2011

PhD (Co-supervision) Thesis:

• Effective energy monitoring of software routines, Jeremy Diamond, University of Zurich,  2026--now.
• Improving the security aspect of code-based LLMs, Melih Catal, University of Zurich,  2024--now.
• Improving trust and adaptability of open-source software developers, Alex Wolf, University of Zurich, 2024--now.
• Exploring energy impact of Matlab code, Jan-Andrea Bard, University of Bern, 2024--now.

MSc Thesis:

• Comment Quality Assessment, Yixuan Zhou, Master's Thesis, University of Zurich, 2026
• Energy Code Patterns in Python Web Applications, Dana Rapp,  University of Zurich, 2026
• Mitigation Strategies for Energy Anti-patterns, Shiran Sun, University of Zurich, 2024
• Why developers write code comments, Najma Christen, University of Zurich, 2024
• Developer awareness in Sustainable Software Engineering, Veronika Wu, University of Bern, 2022
• Analysis of Developer Information Needs on Collaborative Platforms, Mathias Bierrer, University of Bern, 2020

Master Project:

• Serverless Traces Analysis, Artem Shkabruk and Zisen Liu, UZH and ETH, 2026
• Comment plugin for Visual Studio Code, Yixuan Zhou and Yapeng Zhang, University of Zurich, 2025

BSc Thesis: 

• Energy-Pattern Awareness in Code Review, Anna Pang, UZH, BSc Thesis, 2025–2026
• Impact of Polyglot-ism on Developer Productivity, Gianluca, UZH, BSc Thesis, 2025–2026
• Memory vs energy optimizations by LLMs, Andy de Vantery, University of Zurich, 2025
• How to ensure comment quality using Linters and LLMs?, Eric Rudischhauser, University of Zurich, 2025
• Commenting Practices of Polyglot developers, Mohammad Eglil, University of Bern, 2023
• Automated vs Manual Tests, Adrian Suter, University of Zurich, 2023
• Tool Support for Commenting Conventions, Michael Dooley, University of Bern, 2021
• Adherence of comments to the style guidelines, Suada Abukar, University of Bern, 2021
• Generating automatically class comments in Pharo, Lino Hess, University of Bern, 2021
• Software Developers? Information Needs, Jonas Richner, University of Bern, 2019
• Inconsistency between Comments and Code, Sabine Brunner, University of Bern, 2018