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)
• Member 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

Please check our research page for an overview of our research agenda, and our projects page 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: 2026, 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: 2026, 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
• IEEE Transactions on Reliability