Sven Apel
@svenapel.bsky.social
Professor of Computer Science
https://www.se.cs.uni-saarland.de/apel/
https://www.se.cs.uni-saarland.de/apel/
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The first deadline for the research track @variabilityconf.bsky.social 2026 conference is Dec. 4 ! It covers all variability areas including software reuse, product lines, and configuration. It merges the 3 previous conferences in the domain (ICSR,SPLC, VaMoS).
conf.researchr.org/home/variabi...
conf.researchr.org/home/variabi...
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November 8, 2025 at 9:50 AM
The first deadline for the research track @variabilityconf.bsky.social 2026 conference is Dec. 4 ! It covers all variability areas including software reuse, product lines, and configuration. It merges the 3 previous conferences in the domain (ICSR,SPLC, VaMoS).
conf.researchr.org/home/variabi...
conf.researchr.org/home/variabi...
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📰 This week at #SIC: Prof. Dr. Sven Apel, Chair of Software Engineering, and Dr. Marvin Wyrich, software engineering researcher at Saarland University, highlight the importance of science communication in November’s CACM issue!
📰 Read: sic.link/silentscientist
📺 Watch: youtu.be/85Q3gTx_MUs
📰 Read: sic.link/silentscientist
📺 Watch: youtu.be/85Q3gTx_MUs
November 2025 CACM: The Silent Scientist: When Software Research Fails to Reach Its Audience
YouTube video by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
youtu.be
October 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
📰 This week at #SIC: Prof. Dr. Sven Apel, Chair of Software Engineering, and Dr. Marvin Wyrich, software engineering researcher at Saarland University, highlight the importance of science communication in November’s CACM issue!
📰 Read: sic.link/silentscientist
📺 Watch: youtu.be/85Q3gTx_MUs
📰 Read: sic.link/silentscientist
📺 Watch: youtu.be/85Q3gTx_MUs
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ACM sent a professional filmmaker to Universität des Saarlandes to interview Sven Apel and me about the topic. It was an exciting experience, and the video is now online! 😁
👉 Article: cacm.acm.org/opinion/the-...
👉 Interview: vimeo.com/1125950450?f...
👉 Article: cacm.acm.org/opinion/the-...
👉 Interview: vimeo.com/1125950450?f...
The Silent Scientist: When Software Research Fails to Reach Its Audience
Marvin Wyrich and Sven Apel discuss "The Silent Scientist: When Software Research Fails to Reach Its Audience," an Opinion article in the November 2025 CACM.
vimeo.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
ACM sent a professional filmmaker to Universität des Saarlandes to interview Sven Apel and me about the topic. It was an exciting experience, and the video is now online! 😁
👉 Article: cacm.acm.org/opinion/the-...
👉 Interview: vimeo.com/1125950450?f...
👉 Article: cacm.acm.org/opinion/the-...
👉 Interview: vimeo.com/1125950450?f...
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Marvin Wyrich wrote:
Our article "The Silent Scientist," in which we explain the importance of science communication for software engineering, appears in the November issue of Communications of the ACM. But it gets even better...
Our article "The Silent Scientist," in which we explain the importance of science communication for software engineering, appears in the November issue of Communications of the ACM. But it gets even better...
The Silent Scientist: When Software Research Fails to Reach Its Audience
Marvin Wyrich and Sven Apel discuss "The Silent Scientist: When Software Research Fails to Reach Its Audience," an Opinion article in the November 2025 CACM.
vimeo.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Marvin Wyrich wrote:
Our article "The Silent Scientist," in which we explain the importance of science communication for software engineering, appears in the November issue of Communications of the ACM. But it gets even better...
Our article "The Silent Scientist," in which we explain the importance of science communication for software engineering, appears in the November issue of Communications of the ACM. But it gets even better...
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Many organizations are changing their language and policies surrounding DEI. The ACM has not, we are sticking to our principles.
- Yannis Ioannidis, ACM president, today
I'm proud to be a member & volunteer for the @acm.org!
- Yannis Ioannidis, ACM president, today
I'm proud to be a member & volunteer for the @acm.org!
September 30, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Many organizations are changing their language and policies surrounding DEI. The ACM has not, we are sticking to our principles.
- Yannis Ioannidis, ACM president, today
I'm proud to be a member & volunteer for the @acm.org!
- Yannis Ioannidis, ACM president, today
I'm proud to be a member & volunteer for the @acm.org!
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German Unity Day celebrates the reunification of East and West Germany. This year, Saarland is hosting the festivities!
We will be in Saarbrücken, Mainzerstraße 3, joined by DFKI, MPI-INF, MPI-SWS, and LZI, to celebrate German Unity Day with you! 🥳
🔗 Find our full program here: sic.link/burgerfest
We will be in Saarbrücken, Mainzerstraße 3, joined by DFKI, MPI-INF, MPI-SWS, and LZI, to celebrate German Unity Day with you! 🥳
🔗 Find our full program here: sic.link/burgerfest
September 29, 2025 at 1:08 PM
German Unity Day celebrates the reunification of East and West Germany. This year, Saarland is hosting the festivities!
We will be in Saarbrücken, Mainzerstraße 3, joined by DFKI, MPI-INF, MPI-SWS, and LZI, to celebrate German Unity Day with you! 🥳
🔗 Find our full program here: sic.link/burgerfest
We will be in Saarbrücken, Mainzerstraße 3, joined by DFKI, MPI-INF, MPI-SWS, and LZI, to celebrate German Unity Day with you! 🥳
🔗 Find our full program here: sic.link/burgerfest
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First author Vs. Second author
September 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
First author Vs. Second author
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Director Christian Theobalt joins the new season of the Max Planck podcast “Ach, Mensch!” and talks about his research in Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence.
↪️Link to the episode: sic.link/achmensch
📸MPI-INF
↪️Link to the episode: sic.link/achmensch
📸MPI-INF
September 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Director Christian Theobalt joins the new season of the Max Planck podcast “Ach, Mensch!” and talks about his research in Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence.
↪️Link to the episode: sic.link/achmensch
📸MPI-INF
↪️Link to the episode: sic.link/achmensch
📸MPI-INF
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🏅 Saarbrücken receives 2 #ERC Starting Grants in computer science this year, more than any other institution in Germany!
Congrats to Dr. Mariya Toneva and Dr. Franziska Boenisch!
💶 Each project will receive €1.5M over 5 years.
🔗 Read more here:
➡️ sic.link/mariya
➡️ sic.link/franziska
#AI #SIC
Congrats to Dr. Mariya Toneva and Dr. Franziska Boenisch!
💶 Each project will receive €1.5M over 5 years.
🔗 Read more here:
➡️ sic.link/mariya
➡️ sic.link/franziska
#AI #SIC
September 18, 2025 at 12:34 PM
🏅 Saarbrücken receives 2 #ERC Starting Grants in computer science this year, more than any other institution in Germany!
Congrats to Dr. Mariya Toneva and Dr. Franziska Boenisch!
💶 Each project will receive €1.5M over 5 years.
🔗 Read more here:
➡️ sic.link/mariya
➡️ sic.link/franziska
#AI #SIC
Congrats to Dr. Mariya Toneva and Dr. Franziska Boenisch!
💶 Each project will receive €1.5M over 5 years.
🔗 Read more here:
➡️ sic.link/mariya
➡️ sic.link/franziska
#AI #SIC
Maintaining and cultivating the traditions of my Alma Mater. Congratulations Dr. Roman!
September 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Maintaining and cultivating the traditions of my Alma Mater. Congratulations Dr. Roman!
Congratulations @mtoneva.bsky.social! Great project! I'm looking forward to the results!
So excited and honored to receive an ERC Starting Grant for the project BrainAlign!! BrainAlign will bring LLMs closer to human understanding by directly aligning them with the human brain.
Stay tuned for our findings, and multiple postdoc and PhD openings in the coming years!
Stay tuned for our findings, and multiple postdoc and PhD openings in the coming years!
September 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Congratulations @mtoneva.bsky.social! Great project! I'm looking forward to the results!
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📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh
#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh
#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
September 4, 2025 at 10:03 AM
📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh
#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh
#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
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In 2025, the ERC received 3,329 proposals for Advanced Grant funding — 31% more than last year!
The selected projects will likely be announced in the spring of 2026.
More facts and figures on #ERCAdG applications 👇 europa.eu/!bm9gPT
#FrontierResearch
The selected projects will likely be announced in the spring of 2026.
More facts and figures on #ERCAdG applications 👇 europa.eu/!bm9gPT
#FrontierResearch
Applications for ERC Advanced Grants 2025: Facts and figures
The ERC Advanced Grants 2025 call closed for applications on 28 August 2025. These are the preliminary data on the submitted proposals:
europa.eu
September 2, 2025 at 11:45 AM
In 2025, the ERC received 3,329 proposals for Advanced Grant funding — 31% more than last year!
The selected projects will likely be announced in the spring of 2026.
More facts and figures on #ERCAdG applications 👇 europa.eu/!bm9gPT
#FrontierResearch
The selected projects will likely be announced in the spring of 2026.
More facts and figures on #ERCAdG applications 👇 europa.eu/!bm9gPT
#FrontierResearch
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Have you recently published in ASEJ, IEEE TSE, ACM TOSEM, EMSE, or JSS? Present your work at ASE’25!
✅ Accepted after Jan 1, 2024
✅ In ASE scope
✅ ≥70% new content
✅ Not presented elsewhere
👉 Full details: conf.researchr.org/track/ase-20...
🗓️ Submission Due: 1st Sep
#ASE2025 #SoftwareEngineering
✅ Accepted after Jan 1, 2024
✅ In ASE scope
✅ ≥70% new content
✅ Not presented elsewhere
👉 Full details: conf.researchr.org/track/ase-20...
🗓️ Submission Due: 1st Sep
#ASE2025 #SoftwareEngineering
ASE 2025 - Journal-First Track - ASE 2025
Welcome to the website of the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2025. The ASE conference is the premier research forum for Automated Software Engineering. E...
conf.researchr.org
August 25, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Have you recently published in ASEJ, IEEE TSE, ACM TOSEM, EMSE, or JSS? Present your work at ASE’25!
✅ Accepted after Jan 1, 2024
✅ In ASE scope
✅ ≥70% new content
✅ Not presented elsewhere
👉 Full details: conf.researchr.org/track/ase-20...
🗓️ Submission Due: 1st Sep
#ASE2025 #SoftwareEngineering
✅ Accepted after Jan 1, 2024
✅ In ASE scope
✅ ≥70% new content
✅ Not presented elsewhere
👉 Full details: conf.researchr.org/track/ase-20...
🗓️ Submission Due: 1st Sep
#ASE2025 #SoftwareEngineering
Experiments in SE research often require a contrast condition or baseline (e.g., contrasting reading code with problem solving or reading prose). What is the influence of the choice of baseline on the actual results? See our TOSEM paper for answers:
www.se.cs.uni-saarland.de/publications...
www.se.cs.uni-saarland.de/publications...
June 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Experiments in SE research often require a contrast condition or baseline (e.g., contrasting reading code with problem solving or reading prose). What is the influence of the choice of baseline on the actual results? See our TOSEM paper for answers:
www.se.cs.uni-saarland.de/publications...
www.se.cs.uni-saarland.de/publications...
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Congrats to all authors of accepted papers in Cycle 1 of #ICSE2026! Out of 660 submissions, 60 papers were accepted and 107 invited for major revisions. We now invite you to share this post with more details about your paper! We'll see you in Rio! 🇧🇷🌴
June 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Congrats to all authors of accepted papers in Cycle 1 of #ICSE2026! Out of 660 submissions, 60 papers were accepted and 107 invited for major revisions. We now invite you to share this post with more details about your paper! We'll see you in Rio! 🇧🇷🌴
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📣 Good news: 281 top researchers have just won ERC Advanced Grants!
The new funding, worth nearly €721 million, is part of the 🇪🇺 EU’s #HorizonEurope programme.
Find out more 👉 europa.eu/!JYKxkD
#ERCAdG #FrontierResearch @ec.europa.eu
The new funding, worth nearly €721 million, is part of the 🇪🇺 EU’s #HorizonEurope programme.
Find out more 👉 europa.eu/!JYKxkD
#ERCAdG #FrontierResearch @ec.europa.eu
June 17, 2025 at 10:11 AM
📣 Good news: 281 top researchers have just won ERC Advanced Grants!
The new funding, worth nearly €721 million, is part of the 🇪🇺 EU’s #HorizonEurope programme.
Find out more 👉 europa.eu/!JYKxkD
#ERCAdG #FrontierResearch @ec.europa.eu
The new funding, worth nearly €721 million, is part of the 🇪🇺 EU’s #HorizonEurope programme.
Find out more 👉 europa.eu/!JYKxkD
#ERCAdG #FrontierResearch @ec.europa.eu
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Am Wochenende durfte ich unsere Forschung auf dem #Kosmos vorstellen. Ich bin begeistert, dass so viele sich für #Programmieren und #Neurodiversität interessieren. Danke an alle vor Ort und die #TUC!
@janetsiegmund.bsky.social @svenapel.bsky.social @schanlin.bsky.social @yifan00.bsky.social
@janetsiegmund.bsky.social @svenapel.bsky.social @schanlin.bsky.social @yifan00.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Am Wochenende durfte ich unsere Forschung auf dem #Kosmos vorstellen. Ich bin begeistert, dass so viele sich für #Programmieren und #Neurodiversität interessieren. Danke an alle vor Ort und die #TUC!
@janetsiegmund.bsky.social @svenapel.bsky.social @schanlin.bsky.social @yifan00.bsky.social
@janetsiegmund.bsky.social @svenapel.bsky.social @schanlin.bsky.social @yifan00.bsky.social
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⚛️ Quantum software meets Saarbrücken science: new €53M+ research center launched at @uni-saarland.de.
With #informatics, #physics, #math & #engineering on board – and @dfki.bsky.social , @mpi-inf.mpg.de & @fz-juelich.de in the mix.
🔗 Read more about the #QuTe initiative here: sic.link/qute
With #informatics, #physics, #math & #engineering on board – and @dfki.bsky.social , @mpi-inf.mpg.de & @fz-juelich.de in the mix.
🔗 Read more about the #QuTe initiative here: sic.link/qute
June 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
⚛️ Quantum software meets Saarbrücken science: new €53M+ research center launched at @uni-saarland.de.
With #informatics, #physics, #math & #engineering on board – and @dfki.bsky.social , @mpi-inf.mpg.de & @fz-juelich.de in the mix.
🔗 Read more about the #QuTe initiative here: sic.link/qute
With #informatics, #physics, #math & #engineering on board – and @dfki.bsky.social , @mpi-inf.mpg.de & @fz-juelich.de in the mix.
🔗 Read more about the #QuTe initiative here: sic.link/qute
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🎉 HUGE NEWS! 🎉
#ASE2025 has received a record-breaking 1,190 submissions – the most EVER for a single-cycle top SE conference! 🤯
Massive thanks to all authors who submitted. Looking forward to what promises to be an unforgettable conference with an incredible program 🔥!
#ASE2025 has received a record-breaking 1,190 submissions – the most EVER for a single-cycle top SE conference! 🤯
Massive thanks to all authors who submitted. Looking forward to what promises to be an unforgettable conference with an incredible program 🔥!
ASE 2025
Welcome to the website of the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2025. The ASE conference is the premier research forum for Automated Software Engineering. E...
conf.researchr.org
June 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
🎉 HUGE NEWS! 🎉
#ASE2025 has received a record-breaking 1,190 submissions – the most EVER for a single-cycle top SE conference! 🤯
Massive thanks to all authors who submitted. Looking forward to what promises to be an unforgettable conference with an incredible program 🔥!
#ASE2025 has received a record-breaking 1,190 submissions – the most EVER for a single-cycle top SE conference! 🤯
Massive thanks to all authors who submitted. Looking forward to what promises to be an unforgettable conference with an incredible program 🔥!
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Massive 1.2k submissions to #ASE25 in Korea! 🎉 📈
🎉 HUGE NEWS! 🎉
#ASE2025 has received a record-breaking 1,190 submissions – the most EVER for a single-cycle top SE conference! 🤯
Massive thanks to all authors who submitted. Looking forward to what promises to be an unforgettable conference with an incredible program 🔥!
#ASE2025 has received a record-breaking 1,190 submissions – the most EVER for a single-cycle top SE conference! 🤯
Massive thanks to all authors who submitted. Looking forward to what promises to be an unforgettable conference with an incredible program 🔥!
ASE 2025
Welcome to the website of the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2025. The ASE conference is the premier research forum for Automated Software Engineering. E...
conf.researchr.org
June 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Massive 1.2k submissions to #ASE25 in Korea! 🎉 📈
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Occasionally, I get a reviewer complaining, “You don’t compare against any other approach. So how can we know you’re better?” So I found a simple way to still add the "bold number column" that apparently everybody wants these days.
May 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Occasionally, I get a reviewer complaining, “You don’t compare against any other approach. So how can we know you’re better?” So I found a simple way to still add the "bold number column" that apparently everybody wants these days.
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📢 ASE 2025 – Upcoming Deadlines!
🔍 Research Papers: 30 May
✨ NIER: 12 Jul
⚒️ Tool Demonstration: 23 Jul
🧑🏫 Doctoral Symposium: 31 Jul
🏢 Industry Showcase: 1 Aug
👩🏻💻 Student Research Competition: 12 Aug
📄 Journal First: 1 Sep
More info: conf.researchr.org/home/ase-2025
🔍 Research Papers: 30 May
✨ NIER: 12 Jul
⚒️ Tool Demonstration: 23 Jul
🧑🏫 Doctoral Symposium: 31 Jul
🏢 Industry Showcase: 1 Aug
👩🏻💻 Student Research Competition: 12 Aug
📄 Journal First: 1 Sep
More info: conf.researchr.org/home/ase-2025
ASE 2025
Welcome to the website of the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2025. The ASE conference is the premier research forum for Automated Software Engineering. E...
conf.researchr.org
May 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
📢 ASE 2025 – Upcoming Deadlines!
🔍 Research Papers: 30 May
✨ NIER: 12 Jul
⚒️ Tool Demonstration: 23 Jul
🧑🏫 Doctoral Symposium: 31 Jul
🏢 Industry Showcase: 1 Aug
👩🏻💻 Student Research Competition: 12 Aug
📄 Journal First: 1 Sep
More info: conf.researchr.org/home/ase-2025
🔍 Research Papers: 30 May
✨ NIER: 12 Jul
⚒️ Tool Demonstration: 23 Jul
🧑🏫 Doctoral Symposium: 31 Jul
🏢 Industry Showcase: 1 Aug
👩🏻💻 Student Research Competition: 12 Aug
📄 Journal First: 1 Sep
More info: conf.researchr.org/home/ase-2025
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✨️ Now that #ICSE25 is over, it's time to get your papers ready for #ASE25 (30th May)!
📢 Here is what's new:
* Major Revision v2.0
* Review criteria for tech. & experience papers
* Policy on LLM-assisted Reviews
* Auto-bidding (TPMS)
* Rapid Response Reliable Reviewers
👇 For more details, read on.
📢 Here is what's new:
* Major Revision v2.0
* Review criteria for tech. & experience papers
* Policy on LLM-assisted Reviews
* Auto-bidding (TPMS)
* Rapid Response Reliable Reviewers
👇 For more details, read on.
May 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Meet the AITO Dahl-Nygaard Prize Winners at ECOOP'25:
Mira Mezini, TU Darmstadt (Senior Prize)
Amir Shaikhha, University of Edinburgh (Junior Prize)
Check out their awards-citation:
https://2025.ecoop.org/track/ecoop-2025-awards
It's also the first time […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Mira Mezini, TU Darmstadt (Senior Prize)
Amir Shaikhha, University of Edinburgh (Junior Prize)
Check out their awards-citation:
https://2025.ecoop.org/track/ecoop-2025-awards
It's also the first time […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
May 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Meet the AITO Dahl-Nygaard Prize Winners at ECOOP'25:
Mira Mezini, TU Darmstadt (Senior Prize)
Amir Shaikhha, University of Edinburgh (Junior Prize)
Check out their awards-citation:
https://2025.ecoop.org/track/ecoop-2025-awards
It's also the first time […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Mira Mezini, TU Darmstadt (Senior Prize)
Amir Shaikhha, University of Edinburgh (Junior Prize)
Check out their awards-citation:
https://2025.ecoop.org/track/ecoop-2025-awards
It's also the first time […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]