The Institute of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence is concerned with the theoretical, practical and applied aspects of software engineering. Research lies in the field of intelligent systems, formal verification and systematic testing of software, artificial intelligence, requirements engineering, recommender systems, optimization of industrial problems, agile software development processes, intelligent autonomous robots, innovative software engineering education, integrating AI techniques within coding education and DevOps processes, AI applications in understanding the cognition of octopuses contrasted with artificial neural networks, and investigates strategies to responsibly address the challenges posed by future AI superintelligence..

Colloquium: Software Engineering

09. to 11. February 2026
Showroom (DHEG136E) | Sandgasse 36, Erdgeschoß


It is a pleasure to invite you to the colloquium for our Professorship in Software Engineering
at Graz University of Technology. The public part will be a short teaching sample at
Bachelor‘s level 3rd year in Computer Science on Software Quality Assurance with the focus
on Property based testing, a scientific talk (titles below) followed by a discussion with the
audience.

Andrea Pferscher
09. February 2026 | 08:30 | Webex Meeting – Colloquium CSBME (Kennwort: CSBME)
https://tugraz.webex.com/webappng/sites/tugraz/meeting/info/e1f8bc6a388f4262ae4b2428223dbeed
Title: “Enhancing the Capabilities of Digital Twins by Formal Methods”

Martin Tappler
09. February 2026 | 11:00 | Showroom (DHEG136E)| Sandgasse 36, Erdgeschoß
Title: Enhancing Trust in Reinforcement Learning:
           Combining Software Testing, Formal Methods, and AI

Ernst Gidon
09. February 2026 |16:30 | Showroom (DHEG136E)| Sandgasse 36, Erdgeschoß
Title: Towards expressive formal methods within software development

Mandrioli Claudio
10. February 2026 | 11:00 | Showroom (DHEG136E)| Sandgasse 36, Erdgeschoß
Title: Bridging Software and Control Engineering
           for Holistic Cyber-Physical Systems Verification and Validation.

Ma Wei
10. February 2026 | 16:30 | Showroom (DHEG136E)| Sandgasse 36, Erdgeschoß
Title: Engineering Trustworthy Software in the Age of AI

Macho Christian
11. February 2026 | 11:00 | Showroom (DHEG136E)| Sandgasse 36, Erdgeschoß
Title: "Building Intelligent CI Systems: Reducing Build Overhead
            with Dependency Analysis and Automated Repair"

Niu Feifei
11. February 2026 | 16:30 | Showroom (DHEG136E)| Sandgasse 36, Erdgeschoß
Title: AI-Powered Software Quality Assurance across Code and Requirements

More information (abstracts and bios) of the candidates

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Institute of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence

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