Yannic Noller
Professor for Computer Science, Ruhr University Bochum (RUB)

Yannic (CV) is a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) and leads the Software Quality group. His research focuses on how software quality can be maintained and improved with automated testing and repair technologies. His general research goal is to shape the future of software development by contributing to the domain of automated software engineering and providing the means to develop reliable, trustworthy, and secure software systems. In particular, he works in the following areas:
- Automated Program Repair: developing novel repair techniques to aid developers in fixing program bugs
- Machine Learning Analysis: automated analysis, testing, and repairing of machine learning models
- Software Testing: exploring and designing (hybrid) testing techniques to systematically generate test inputs that expose incorrect program behavior
- Intelligent Tutoring Systems: how to help CS students learn programming by applying concepts from automated testing and repair to guide the students toward the right solution
- Human Factors in SE: studying developer needs and requirements for successful deployment of testing and repair techniques in development practice
Before joining RUB in July 2024, Yannic was an Assistant Professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He pursued his Ph.D. in Computer Science in the Software Engineering group (advised by Prof. Lars Grunske) at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. His Ph.D. research focused on differential software testing, in particular, by combining fuzzing and symbolic execution in the context of regression analysis, algorithmic complexity analysis, side-channel analysis, and robustness analysis of neural networks.
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Jul 10, 2025 | Had a great time at the Summer School on Security Testing and Verification 2025 organized by the KU Leuven and VUB! It was great to engage with the participants and present our research in fuzzing :) For more info check, the website or this LinkedIn post! ![]() |
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Jun 29, 2025 | Enjoyed the FUZZING’25 workshop with great participants and keynote speakers! Miryung Kim (UCLA and Amazon Web Services) talked about here research on constraining fuzzing and Will Wilson (Antithesis) provided interesting insights into career paths in fuzzing outside academia. Checkout our program and watch the keynote recordings! |
Jun 03, 2025 | I have been invited to serve as the Artifact Evaluation Chair for FASE 2026! Looking forward to many great research artifacts :-) |
May 21, 2025 | I have been invited to talk about my (postdoctoral) research experience in Singapore as part of the workshop and networking event “Doing research in (Greater) China” for STEM early career researchers organized by the China Competence Network Ruhr Niederrhein (C NET RNR). You find my slides here! |
May 09, 2025 | I have been invited to serve on the Program Committee for FSE 2026! Looking forward to many great submissions!!! |