Dissertationspreis of the Software Engineering Division (SWT) of GI
The Software Engineering Division (SWT) of the German Informatics Society (GI) annually confers the Dissertationspreis (not to be confused with the Dissertationspreis of GI, OCG and SI.) The Dissertationspreis honours outstanding PhD Theses in Software Engineering and is endowed with 1'000 EUR.
Selected candidates (Short List) present their work at SE2026. The presentations and jury session take place on Thursday, 26 February 2026 in the Wankdorf Stadium. The award ceremony takes place on Thursday, 26 February 2026 during the conference dinner at the Gurten Pavillon.
Program
Location: Wankdorf Stadium
15:00 – 15:30
Coffee Break / Registration
15:30 – 17:30
Presentations of the nominees for the Dissertationspreis
Room: Sky Lounge 3
Details: Dissertationspreis
Session Chair: Malte Lochau (University of Siegen (DE))
"Towards Managed Clone-and-Own: Automating Matching and Patching"
Author: Alexander Schultheiß
Format: 10 minutes talk + 10 minutes questions
"Neural Bug Detection"
Author: Cedric Richter
Format: 10 minutes talk + 10 minutes questions
"Unleashing the Potential of Configuration Counting for Product-Line Analyses"
Author: Chico Sundermann
Format: 10 minutes talk + 10 minutes questions
"Functional Modeling of Cyber-Physical Systems"
Author: Imke Nachmann
Format: 10 minutes talk + 10 minutes questions
"T-Reqs: A Conceptual Model & Framework for Template-Based Requirements Quality Improvement in Space Engineering"
Author: Katharina Grosser
Format: 10 minutes talk + 10 minutes questions
"Automatic Performance Modeling and Analysis of Configurable Scientific Software and Workflows"
Author: Larissa Schmid
Format: 10 minutes talk + 10 minutes questions
17:30 – 18:00
Jury Session (Closed)
Room: Sky Lounge 3
Details: Dissertationspreis
Session Chair: Malte Lochau (University of Siegen (DE))
19:00 – 22:00
Organisation
- Malte Lochau, University of Siegen
Jury
- Stefan Kugele, TH Ingolstadt, Fachgruppe Automotive Software Engineering (ASE)
- Jan Linxweiler, TU Braunschweig, Fachgruppe Research Software Engineering (RSE)
- Sandro Schulze, HS Anhalt, Fachgruppe Software-Reengineering (SRE)
- Stefan Sobernig, WU Wien, Fachgruppe Softwaretechnik (ST)
- Andreas Vogelsang, University of Duisburg-Essen, Fachgruppe Requirements Engineering (RE)
- Karin Vosseberg, HS Bremerhaven, Fachgruppe Test, Analyse und Verifikation von Software (TAV)