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I am in the last year of my PhD. I am with the Software Composition Group at University of Bern. My advisor is Oscar Nierstrasz.

"I am in love with programming languages."

My main research interests are: search in software engineering, test-driven development, and dynamic programming languages. At the moment, I’m working on Software Cartography.

Doing an internship with Microsoft Research this summer…

Research

Current projects

• Codemap, spatial software visualization [ICSM 2006] [WCRE 2008].
• Hapax, software analysis, information retrieval, natural language processing [Master’s thesis] [IST Journal] [WCRE 2005] [VISSOFT 2005] [PCODA 2005] [MSR 2009].
• JExample, unit testing, program transformation [XP 2008] [PCODA 2008].

Past projects

• Bender, code search [SUITE 2010]
• Cells, programming languages [VMIL 2008].
• Chronia, software visualization [IWPSE 2005].
• Develect, bug-report assignment [MSR 2009]
• Fame and Moose, meta-modeling [SOSYM Journal] [MODELS 2007] [MRT 2008].
• Protalk, programming languages [no pubs].
• RBCrawler, tool building, software visualization [ESUG 2007].
• Traceplots, software visualization [ICSM 2006] [PCODA 2006].
• Spy VM, virtual machines [S3 2008].
• Swarm Behavior, programming languages [DYLA 2007].

Please refer to my publications for a complete list of publications.

Please refer to activities for my reviewing activities.

Teaching

Current students

• None, as I am finishing my PhD.

Past students

• Florian Gysin worked on Trust in Code Search [Bachelor’s thesis, SUITE 2010, SRC Award at ICSE 2010].
• David Erni worked on Software Cartography [Master’s thesis].
• Lea Hänsenberger did API mirgration of unit tests [Master’s thesis].
• Dominique Matter worked on bug-report assignment [Master’s thesis, Faculty award].
• David Erni extended Java with Collective Behavior [Bachelor’s thesis].
• Lea Hänsenberger implemented JExample [Bachelor’s thesis, Alumni award].

Lectures

• Programming Fundamentals II, lecture, teaching assistant

Random stuff

• LaTeX FAQ quick link
• Java Compiler, beyond JSR 269
• SCG Library, all your books are belong to me Niko!
• Bridge the Gap between Analysis and IDE
• Finger gateway – ye olde blog, the unix way of live

Some moose fun

• Moosehaven is a self-contained model communitiy, owned and operated by the Loyal Order of Moose. They even offer bicycle repairman as a sunshine job to their members!
• Der Göttinger Elch, is awarded each year to a German comedian or Emil Steinberger.
• Blog post on the origin of the initial Elchkritiker-Quote (in German)
• Dear Gentlemen, please enjoy the hottest Moose Pinup ever!
• Funny youtube clip – Moose sings da blues