Timo Kehrer

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 check our projects website for an overview of funded research projects.

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

• 2026: Software Engineering (SE 2026): General Chair
• 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: 2026, 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
• ICSME International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution: 2025
• 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: 2025, 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: 2025, 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
• GI Fachtagung Modellierung: 2026
• 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