Martin Burger Prof. Dr.-Ing.

Business Agility · Empowering Leadership · Effective Collaboration · Technical Excellence

Education
Computer science and software engineering

PhD in Computer Science
Doktor-Ingenieur (Dr.-Ing.)

Saarland University 2006 – 2011
Dissertation Replaying and Isolating Failure-Inducing Program Interactions (magna cum laude, Software Engineering Chair, Prof. Dr. Andreas Zeller)
Fields of study software engineering, automated debugging, dynamic program analysis, capture and replay of program executions
Nominated for Best Paper Award At the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) 2011 in Toronto, Canada, my paper “Minimizing Reproduction of Software Failures” was nominated for the Best Paper Award. Other researchers referred to this new approach as “the end of manual debugging”.

Diploma in Computer Science
Diplom-Informatiker (Dipl.-Inform.)

Saarland University 1999 – 2005
Diploma thesis Locating Failure-Inducing Code Changes in an Industrial Environment (very good / outstanding performance, Software Engineering Chair, Prof. Dr. Andreas Zeller)
Fields of study computer science, software engineering, business informatics, information systems, information science
Eclipse Innovation Grant My diploma thesis was in the context of the “IBM Eclipse Innovation Grant on automated debugging”, which was awarded to Prof. Dr. Andreas Zeller.
Internship My diploma project was a close collaboration of the Software Engineering Chair (Prof. Dr. Andreas Zeller) with 1&1 Internet AG where I worked as an intern.