Dr. Marvin Wyrich
Hey there! I'm a software engineering researcher at the Saarland University in Germany.
My work sits at the exciting intersection of empirical software engineering and psychology, with a sprinkle
of neuroscience thrown in for good measure — yes,
we're diving into the brains of developers!
What else? I believe in making research accessible to everyone. That's why I'm passionate about science communication
and empowering researchers to explore new ways of reaching out and having an impact.
Oh, and I love sports, especially table tennis 🏓 and running 🏃.
Academic Recognition
- 2024 Distinguished paper award at ICSE
- 2024 Appointed as Academic Editor for PeerJ Computer Science
- 2023 Successful defense of my doctoral thesis with summa cum laude & infos dissertation award
- 2022 Distinguished paper award at ICPC
- 2022 Distinguished reviewer award at ICPC
- 2022 Best presentation award at ICPC
- 2020 Best paper award at ESEM
- 2016 Fujitsu Next Agile IT Award
Publications
- Evidence Profiles for Validity Threats in Program Comprehension Experiments •ICSE 2023
- Teaching Computer Science Students to Communicate Scientific Findings More Effectively •ICSE 2023
- The Mind Is a Powerful Place: How Showing Code Comprehensibility Metrics Influences Code Understanding •ICSE 2021
- Résumé-Driven Development: A Definition and Empirical Characterization •ICSE 2021
- Code Comprehension Confounders: A Study of Intelligence and Personality •IEEE TSE (2021)
- Anchoring Code Understandability Evaluations Through Task Descriptions •ICPC 2022
- An Empirical Validation of Cognitive Complexity as a Measure of Source Code Understandability •ESEM 2020
- A theory on individual characteristics of successful coding challenge solvers •PeerJ CS (2019)