Software Engineering Research Group
Our mission is to research and teach theories, methods, processes, and techniques for building and evolving large, complex, and long-living software systems. We aim at adding the engineering to the profession of software developers, making their live more productive and cheerful, and resulting in software systems of high quality. SERG is led by Martin Pinzger and part of the Department of Informatics Systems, Faculty of Technical Sciences, at the Universität Klagenfurt.

Open Position(s)
We have an open position for a PhD student in software engineering, with a focus on change and change impact analysis and/or automating software engineering tasks. The position is for 4 years and the planned starting date is March 1st, 2021. The basic requirements are:
- Completed Master’s degree or graduate degree in Computer Science/Computer Science with a major in Software Engineering at a domestic or foreign university
- Demonstrated knowledge in at least one of the following subject areas:
- Software Reengineering
- Software Testing
- Program Analysis
- Mining Software Repositories
- Fluency in written and spoken English
Should you fulfill these requirements, please do not hesitate to submit your application until February 3rd, 2021. More information on the job offer is available in our newsletter.
Research
In our research, we are addressing the following topics: software evolution, mining software repositories, program analysis, software visualization, formal methods in software engineering, and automating software engineering tasks. For more information and recent results, please check our research projects, list of publications and tools.
Teaching
We are offering the new Master’s Specialization Software Engineering to deepen your knowledge on DevOps, requirements engineering, testing, reengineering, and automating software engineering tasks.
Collaborate with SERG
In addition to basic research, we have a big interest in performing applied research whose results are transferred to industry, governmental institutions, and open source communities. The collaborations of SERG with X-Automata, Philips Healthcare, KPMG, Robeco, and the Software Improvement Group (SIG) are good examples of such a knowledge transfer. If you are interested in a collaboration with SERG, e.g., in form of a partner in a research project, sponsor of our research, or in some other form, please contact us.
Join the Team
We are looking for students with strong technical or research skills for doing a Master’s Thesis or a Softwarepraktika with us. We have a number of open thesis projects also in collaboration with industry. Find out more info on our open thesis projects on this web-site. Regarding Softwarepraktika check out this web-site.
Contact
Room: S.2.78
Phone: +43 463 2700 3503
E-Mail: Kerstin [dot] Smounig [at] aau [dot] at
Universitätsstrasse 65-67
9020 Klagenfurt am Wörthersee
Austria
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9020 Klagenfurt am Wörthersee
Austria
+43 463 2700
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