Andreas Zeller
Faculty At CISPA Helmholtz Center For Information Security
Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany
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Top SchoolAndreas Zeller is a leading software engineering researcher and professor at Saarland University who also serves as faculty at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, combining academic leadership with entrepreneurial drive as co-founder and chairman of Testfabrik AG. His influential work in automated debugging, specification mining, mining software archives, and security testing has earned him two ERC Advanced Grants, ACM Fellowship, and an ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award. He has a long track record of turning deep program-analysis ideas—like delta debugging—into practical tools and startups, and his lab’s students are frequently sponsored by major industry players such as Google, Microsoft, and SAP. Beyond theory, he contributes to open-source projects like The Fuzzing Book, where he improved test coverage and fuzzing robustness, showing a hands-on commitment to software quality. Based in Saarbrücken, he blends rigorous research, teaching, and technology transfer to advance both the science and practice of reliable, secure software.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Technischen Universität DarmstadtPost-Doc Computer Science, Post-Doc Computer Science at Universität Passau
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
uds-se/fuzzingbook
Dec 2017 - Jan 2023
Project page for "The Fuzzing Book"
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:1 review, 3313 commits, 44 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Andreas's commits primarily focused on improving the test coverage and quality of the code. They made changes to increase the number of fuzzing runs and also fixed several issues, including correcting parsing and encoding issues, as well as improving test coverage for the GUI. They added and updated test code.
fuzzingjupyter-notebooksinteractive-notebookspythontesting
uds-se/autoreject
Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
Autoreject.org — An automatic review generator
Contributions:72 commits, 27 pushes in 1 month
sciencepublicationsreviewreject
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