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Mira Mezini

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Mira Mezini

Software Technology Group

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Mira Mezini is full professor of Computer Science at Technical University of Darmstadt and leads the Software Technology Group at the Department of Computer Science. After her PhD in Computer Science at the University of Siegen in Germany, she spent two years as a visiting assistant professor at Northeastern University in Boston (USA), before joining TU Darmstadt in 2000.

She held a visiting professorship at Lancaster University (UK) between 2013 and 2016. From 2013 to 2014 she was Dean of the Department of Computer Science, from 2014 to 2016 Vice President for Knowledge and Technology Transfer and from 2017 to 2019 Vice President for Research and Innovation at TU Darmstadt. She is member of the board of the National Research Center for Applied Cyber Security ATHENE and spokesperson of hessian.AI, the Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence.

Mira Mezini was elected member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) in 2016. She has received various awards for her research, including IBM Eclipse Innovation Awards (2005 and 2006), a Google Research Award (2017) and the German IT Security Award (2014). In 2012 Mezini received an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC), the EU's highest endowed research award. She is a member of various scientific bodies, including the Informatics Review Board of the German Research Foundation, the international START / Wittgenstein Jury of the Austrian Science Fund and the Executive Committee of SIGPLAN – Special Interest Group for Programming Languages – of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). She was appointed to the Identification Commission of the ERC Scientific Council by the EU Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth in 2020 and is member of the BMWi jury of experts for the EXIST Transfer of Research Program since 2021.

Current research topics:

  • Programming paradigms and languages for resilient decentralized data-intensive software systems
  • Code intelligence: learning program analyses for automated software quality (e.g., discovering security vulnerabilities data protection violations, API misuses, etc.)
  • Development methods and declarative languages for AI software systems

Short Biography

since 2002 Full Professor of Computer Science,
College of Computer Science (FB 20),
Darmstadt University of Technology
2000-2002 Associate Professor of Computer Science,
College of Computer Science (FB 20),
Darmstadt University of Technology
1998-2000 Assistant Professor of Computer Science (C1)
College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (FB12),
University of Siegen, Germany, and
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Computer Science,
College of Computer Science, Northeastern University,
U.S.A.
1997-1998 Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science,
College of Computer Science, Northeastern University,
U.S.A.
1997 Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) in Computer Science
1992-1997 Full-Time Research and Teaching Assistant,
College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Siegen, Germany
1990-1992 Computer Center of the University of Siegen, Germany
1989-1990 Full-Time Research and Teaching Assistant,
Department of Computer Science,
University of Tirana, Albania
1984-1989 studied Computer Science, University of Tirana, Albania,
1989: Diploma in Computer Science

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