Teaching & Alumni

Courses taught by Dr. Sebastiano Panichella, together with the PhD students, researchers and students advised over the years at the University of Bern, the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, the University of Zurich and partner institutions.

Teaching

Alumni and Advised Students

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Teaching

DevOps for Cyber-Physical Systems

New interdisciplinary course between Robotics, AI and Software Engineering · Spring 2026

Autonomous Systems in Practice: Technology, Law, and Society

New interdisciplinary course between Robotics, AI, Software Engineering and Law (regulatory aspects and ethics in AI and autonomous cyber-physical systems), in collaboration with Tobias Eule · Spring 2026

Software Skills Lab

Java Crash Course, Linear Data Structures, Graphs and Trees, Sets and Maps, (Data Structure) Algorithms · 2024, 2025

Software Engineering Course – Automated Traceability Recovery

Lecture · 2025

Software Engineering Course – Search-based Software Testing

Lecture · 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

Software Engineering Course – DevOps and testing AI-based cyber-physical systems

Lecture · 2022, 2023, 2024

Software development 2 / project module 4 FS24

“Software Entwicklung 2 / Projektmodul 4” · 2024, 2025

DevOps Testing for Complex Systems

2023, 2024

Cloud Computing course – CCP2

2020

INF-Prog1

2020

CAS Information Engineering

Co-lecturer · 2020, 2019, 2018

Programming course in Java

Lab Instructor · 2018

Software Maintenance and Evolution

Lecturer · 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015

Lab Instructor (December 2013) for the Programming Techniques course of Professor Gerardo Canfora

The Languages and Grammars · JavaCC parser

Seminaries in the Software Engineering course of Prof. Massimiliano Di Penta

Recovering Traceability Links via Information Retrieval Methods

Seminaries

Who is going to Mentor Newcomers in Open Source Projects? · Mining Source Code Descriptions from Developers Communications

Seminary in the Software Engineering course of Dott. Rocco Oliveto

Improving IR-based Traceability Recovery Using Smoothing Filters

Advanced Software Testing, Maintenance and Evolution

Online course on Udemy · 2025

Alumni

Advised Researchers and Students

Sarah Meyer

Senior Researcher at University of Bern, Switzerland (from 2025–present).

Atefeh Rohani

Postdoc at University of Bern, Switzerland (from 2025–present).

Gregory Loubet-Bonino

PhD student at University of Bern, Switzerland (from 2025).

Ramazan Erdem

PhD student at University of Bern, Switzerland (from 2025).

Prakash Aryan

PhD student at University of Bern, Switzerland (from 2025).

Sandro Hernandez

PhD student at University of Bern, Switzerland (from 2025).

Pablo Valenzuela

PhD student at University of Bern, Switzerland (from 2024).

Alexander Boll

PhD student at University of Bern, Switzerland (collaborating with him from 2024).

Sajad Khatiri

PhD student at Zurich University of Applied Science and USI (co-advised with Prof. Tonella), Switzerland (from 2021).

Pooja Rani

PhD student at the University of Bern, Switzerland (from 2018) — currently Full Professor at the University of Mannheim. Best PhD Thesis Award at the University of Bern for her PhD thesis entitled “Assessing Comment Quality in Object-Oriented Languages”. PhD thesis: “Assessing Comment Quality in Object-Oriented Languages”.

Nechita Teodora

Research Assistant at Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland (from 2022) — currently Fullstack Software Engineer at Helbling Technik.

Christian Birchler

PhD student at Zurich University of Applied Sciences and UniBe (co-advised with Prof. Kehrer), Switzerland (from 2022).

Ali Javadi

Research Assistant at University of Bern, Switzerland (from 2025-06 to 2026-03).

Prasun Saurabh

Research Assistant at Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland (from 2023-06 to present) — currently PhD student at Simula Research Laboratory, Norway. Worked on the H2020 COSMOS project (DevOps for Complex Cyber-physical Systems). Worked on the Innosuisse ARIES project (Exploiting User Journeys and Testing Automation for Supporting Efficient Energy Service Platforms).

Susana Soriano

Research Assistant at Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland (from 2023-10 to present) — currently researcher at ZHAW. Worked on the Innosuisse ARIES project (Exploiting User Journeys and Testing Automation for Supporting Efficient Energy Service Platforms).

Al-Ameen Mohammed Ali Mohammed

Research Assistant at Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland (from 2023-10 to present) — currently Back End Engineer at JOIN.com. Worked on the Innosuisse ARIES project (Exploiting User Journeys and Testing Automation for Supporting Efficient Energy Service Platforms).

Gabriela Lopez

Research Assistant at Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland (from 2021-06 to 2023-03) — currently Software Engineering Team Lead and Deputy Head of Software Development at Stöcklin Logistik AG. Worked on the Innosuisse ARIES project (Exploiting User Journeys and Testing Automation for Supporting Efficient Energy Service Platforms).

Nicolas Erni

Research Assistant at Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland (from 2021) — currently Software Engineer at BlueCare. Worked on the Innosuisse ARIES project (Exploiting User Journeys and Testing Automation for Supporting Efficient Energy Service Platforms).

Nicolas Ganz

Research Assistant at Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland (from 2021–2023). Worked on the Innosuisse ARIES project (Exploiting User Journeys and Testing Automation for Supporting Efficient Energy Service Platforms).

Rafael Kallis

Independent Researcher at Rafael Kallis Consulting (from 2020).

Susovita Soumya

Research Assistant at Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland (from 2021-02 to 2021-04) — currently Lead QA Engineer at Wipro. Worked on the Innosuisse ARIES project (Exploiting User Journeys and Testing Automation for Supporting Efficient Energy Service Platforms).

Muhammad Ilyas Azeem

PhD student at Laboratory for Internet Software Technologies, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (from 2019–2020) — currently Data Scientist at ArcelorMittal Luxembourg.

Diego Martin

Research Assistant at Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland (during 2019) — currently Software Engineer at Acodis.

Giovanni Grano

PhD student at University of Zurich, Switzerland (from 2017) — currently Software Engineer at LocalStack.

Carmine Vassallo

PhD student at University of Zurich, Switzerland (from 2017) — currently Software Engineer at SonarQube.

Carol V. Alexandru

PhD student at University of Zurich, Switzerland (from 2017) — currently Postdoc at the University of Zurich.

Adelina Ciurumelea

PhD student at University of Zurich, Switzerland (from 2016) — currently Software Engineer at Google.

Gerald Schermann

PhD student at University of Zurich, Switzerland — currently Software Architect at Digitec Galaxus AG.

Andrea Di Sorbo

PhD student at University of Sannio — currently Assistant Professor at University of Sannio, Italy.

Evance Tarimo

Master student at University of Bern, Switzerland, 2025.

Iason Katsikis

Master student at University of Bern, Switzerland, 2025/2026.

Julian Mauerhofer

Master student at University of Bern, Switzerland, 2024/2025.

Timo Blattner

Master student at University of Bern, Switzerland, 2023–2024.

Cyrill Rohrbach

Master student at University of Bern, Switzerland, 2022–2023.

Hyeongkyun Kim

Master student at University of Zurich, Switzerland, 2021–2023.

Marco De Liso

Master student at University of Bern, Switzerland, 2023–2024.