Univ.-Prof. Dr. Martin Pinzger has been elevated to an ACM Senior Member

Univ.-Prof. Martin Pinzger has been honored with the title of ACM Senior Member. The ACM Senior Member Committee presented Univ.-Prof. Pinzger with the ACM Senior Member certificate and pin. His name will also be published on the ACM Senior Member page at https://awards.acm.org/senior-members/award-winners.

The Senior Members Grade recognizes those ACM members with at least 10 years of professional experience and at least 5 years of Professional Membership in the last 10 years, who have demonstrated performance through technical leadership, and technical or professional contributions.

Artificial Intelligence in Software Development: “AI Is Swimming in Its Own Soup.”

Although artificial intelligence can handle straightforward tasks in software development, we particularly need well-trained junior developers right now, argues Martin Pinzger, Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Klagenfurt. In this interview, he explains why large language models stagnate without fresh human input – and how they can nevertheless add real value to software development.

Best Performer and Teaching Awards 2024/2025

We congratulate David Jamnig BSc., who works as a study assistant in our Software Engineering Research Group, on receiving the Best Performer Award 2024/2025 and a Teaching Award in the category “Best Tutorium”.

Best Performer Awards

The Best Performer Award is given to the best students in the technical degree programs at the University of Klagenfurt. The ECTS credits and grades of all assessments of one academic year were taken into account to evaluate academic performance. David Jamnig performed best in the Master’s degree program “Informatics” in the academic year 2024/2025.

The University of Klagenfurt held the award ceremony on November 5, 2025, as part of the “University meets Industry: Talents for Carinthia” event. The prizes for the Best Performer Award winners, each amounting to 500 euros, were donated by the Förderverein Technische Fakultät (FTF) and the Faculty of Technical Sciences and presented by Michael Kollienz from Raiffeisenbank Kärnten and Chairman of the FTF, and Prof. Bernhard Rinner, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Technical Sciences.

Teaching Award

Moreover, the Teaching Award was given to David for his efforts in assisting students in his tutorials for example on Software Engineering. All Teaching Awards across different categories were presented to the winners at a celebratory ceremony on November 19, 2025.

We share the happiness with David on his achievements as we strongly value him as a member of our team. Furthermore we are pleased to continue working with him.

More about the events and all winners:

https://www.aau.at/blog/best-performer-awards-roland-mittermeir-preis-und-dissertationspreis-der-fakultaet-fuer-technische-wissenschaften-2024-25/

https://www.aau.at/blog/lehrepreis-2025-universitaet-praemiert-hervorragende-lehrende/

Best Performer Awards, Roland Mittermeir Award, and Doctoral Thesis Award of the Faculty of Technical Sciences 2024/25

On 5 November, the Best Performer Awards 2024/25, the Roland Mittermeir Prize 2024 and, for the first time, the Dissertation Prize 2024/25 were presented at the University meets Industry: Talents for Carinthia event.