Robin Maisch is a PhD researcher in computer science at KIT with 11 years of hands-on experience bridging academic research and industry software engineering. He co-maintains JPlag, a widely used open-source tool for source-code plagiarism detection, and has contributed deep backend improvements and testing to its R module. His background spans embedded and web development roles—from Rutronik and Hyperstone to e-commerce automation and Shopify builds—bringing practical product shipping experience to research projects. As a teaching assistant and former student researcher, he combines pedagogical experience with rigorous code quality and documentation practices. Based in Karlsruhe, he pairs academic curiosity with a track record of delivering maintainable tooling that helps educators and engineers detect and prevent code collusion.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Abitur / Allgemeine Hochschulreife, Abitur / Allgemeine Hochschulreife at Heinrich-Suso-Gymnasium
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
State-of-the-Art Source Code Plagiarism & Collusion Detection. Check for plagiarism in a set of programs.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:97 reviews, 127 commits, 13 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Robin primarily worked on the backend implementation for the R module in the JPlag project. Their commits focused on refactoring and enhancing the R frontend, including the addition of a new listener class, updates to existing classes, and the expansion of the token set. The user added documentation, and implemented tests to improve the frontend.
Contributions:119 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 10 months
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