Martin Pinzger, Prof. Dr.

Professor of Software Engineering Software Engineering Research Group Institute of Informatics Systems Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt Universitätsstraße 65-67 9020 Klagenfurt, Austria E-mail: martin.pinzger (atDomain) aau (dot) at Phone: +43 463 2700 3513 Fax: +43 463 2700 99 3513 Office: E.2.79

Martin Pinzger is a Full Professor holding the Chair of Software Engineering at the Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Austria. He is leading the Software Engineering Research Group and is currently also serving as the head of the Institute of Informatics Systems. Martin Pinzger received a MSc (Dipl. Ing.) in 2001 and PhD (Dr. techn.) in 2005 in informatics from the Vienna University of Technology, both with distinction. He was a Postdoc at the University of Zurich and an Assistant Professor at the Delft University of Technology from which he received tenure in 2012. His research interests are in software engineering with a focus on software evolution, software quality, mining software repositories, software visualization, software design, and empirical studies in software engineering. In 2012, he won a prestigious NWO Vidi grant for his research proposal on recording and analysis of fine-grained code changes. In 2013, he received an ICSE 2013 ACM SIGSOFT distinguished paper award for his work on data clone detection in spreadsheets and the ICSM 2013 most influential paper award for his work on the release history database. In 2014, he won the ICSME 2014 Best Paper Award for his work on a genetic algorithm to refactor fat Java interfaces.

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News

• March 2017 - Our paper "Extracting Build Changes with BUILDDIFF" has been accepted at the MSR 2017 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• February 2017 - Joining the steering committee of the International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER).
• February 2017 - Chairing the 24th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering in Klagenfurt, Austria.