Timo Kehrer

Professor and Chair of SEG

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Short Bio

Prof. Timo Kehrer has joined the Institute of Computer Science in January 2022, where he established the Software Engineering Group (SEG). With a PhD from the University of Siegen (DE), and after holding a post-doctoral research fellow position at Politecnico di Milano (IT) and being a visiting researcher at the University of Leicester (UK), he previously was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE).

Academic Administration

Director of Studies (Bachelor) at the Institute of Computer Science
Member of the Quality Assurance and Development Expert Committee of the Faculty of Science (Department Delegate)
Memeber of the Strategy Board of the Faculty of Science (Deputy Department Delegate)
Member of the Hauskommission Campus Engehalte (Institute Delegate)
Member of the Equal Opportunities Commission of the Faculty of Science

Research Interests

Model- and data-centric software engineering
Model-based software analysis and quality assurance
Software evolution and variability management

Research Projects

Please see our projects website for an overview of funded research projects

Publications

Publication list at DBLP
Publication list at Google Scholar

Scientific Boards and Steering Committees

CHOOSE: Swiss Group for Software Engineering, Special Interest Group (SIG) of the Swiss Informatics Society: Presidency (since 02/2024)
VaMoS: International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems: Steering Committee member (since 2024)
Re:Volution: International Workshop on Reverse Variability Engineering and Evolution of Software-Intensive System: Steering Committee member (since 2024)
GReTA: International Seminar Series on Graph Transformation Theory and Applications: Scientific Committee member (since 2020)
VariVolution: International Workshop on Variability and Evolution of Software-Intensive Systems: Steering Committee member (2018 - 2024)

Conference Chairing and Organization

2024: International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems (VaMoS’24): General Chair
2021: International Conference on Graph Transformation (ICGT’21): Program Co-Chair
2020: International Conference on Graph Transformation (ICGT’20): Program Co-Chair
2019: International Workshop on Software Engineering for Science (SE4Science) at ICSE’19: Co-Organizer
2019: Dagstuhl Research Seminar on “Software Evolution in Time and Space: Unifying Version and Variability Management” (No. 58-0118): Co-Organizer
2019: International Systems and Software Product Line Conference: Challenge Track Co-Chair
2018: HUB-KCL Research Workshop on “Search-Based Model Engineering”: Co-Organizer
2018: GI-Fachtagung Modellierung: Tutorial Co-Chair
2018: International Systems and Software Product Line Conference: Challenge Track Co-Chair
2017: International Workshop on Graphs as Models (GaM) at ETAPS’17: Co-Organizer

Program Committee Memberships (Selected)

ICSE: International Conference on Software Engineering: 2025
ICSE-NIER: International Conference on Software Engineering, New Ideas and Emerging Results Track: 2022
ASE: International Conference on Automated Software Engineering: 2021, 2020, 2019
FSE: International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Demo Track: 2023
ICST: International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation: 2025
MoDELS: International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems: 2023, 2022
MoDELS-WS: International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, Workshop Track: 2024
EASE: International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering: 2025, 2023
SEAMS: International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems: 2025, 2024
SPLC: International Systems and Software Product Line Conference: 2024, 2023, 2020, 2019
ICGT: International Conference on Graph Transformation: 2022
ICMT: International Conference on Model Transformation: 2019, 2018, 2017
SCAM: International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation: 2023, 2022
VaMoS: International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-intensive Systems: 2025, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018
QUATIC: International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology, Model-Driven Methods Track: 2021, 2020
ICCS: International Conference on Computational Science, Software Engineering 4 Science Track: 2021, 2020
SE GI: Fachtagung Software Engineering: 2024, 2023
SE-SRC: GI Fachtagung Software Engineering, Student Research Competition: 2023
MET: International Workshop on Metamorphic Testing: 2024
VariVolution: International Workshop on Variability and Evolution of Software-intensive Systems: 2020, 2019
SE4eScience: International Workshop on Software Engineering for eScience: 2022
SE4Science: International Workshop on Software Engineering for Computational Science: 2022
ToCaMS: International Workshop on Testing of Configurable and Multi-variant Systems: 2020

Regular Journal Reviews (Selected)

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Big Data
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
Journal on Empirical Software Engineering (Springer)
Automated Software Engineering (Springer)
Software and Systems Modeling (Springer)
Journal of Systems and Software (Elsevier)
Science of Computer Programming (Elsevier)
Journal of Object Technology
Information and Software Technology (Elsevier)
Journal of Systems Architecture (Elsevier)
Journal of Computer Languages (Elsevier)
IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering
Journal of Computational Science (Elsevier)
Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (Wiley)
Journal of Software: Practice and Experience (Wiley)
Communications of the ACM
IEEE Access