🪴 About Me

I am a doctoral researcher and Ph.D. candidate in the Software Engineering group of Prof. Lars Grunske at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. Previously, I collaborated with Prof. Andreas Zeller’s research group at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Saarbrücken.

My research focuses on automated software engineering, particularly in software testing, vulnerability detection, and fuzzing. Currently, I am part of the EMPEROR project, which aims to automatically generate explanations for program behaviors, particularly program failures. By leveraging predictive and generative models, we seek to uncover and refine relationships among input features, enhancing our understanding of how and why software behaves as it does.

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Latest News

• I’ve been invited to serve on the FSE 2025 Artifact Track Program Committee! Looking forward to reviewing outstanding artifact submissions. See you in Norway! 🇳🇴
• Our paper demonstrating jAST has been accepted at the FSE’25 Demonstrations Track! Preprint will follow soon!
• I have been invited to serve on the ISSTA 2025 Tools Demonstrations track Program Committee! Looking forward to many great submissions! 🇳🇴
• My Python implementation of the debugging tool Alhazen has been featured in The Debugging Book! Be sure to check it out!
• I am honored to have been awarded the prestigious Black Shirt by my research group at HU-Berlin for my contributions to software engineering! The Blackshirt tradition originates from the Nebraska University Football Team, where it is given to exceptional defensive players for outstanding performances.
• I co-founded InputLab, a startup that generates test data for various formats, from electronic invoices to communication between government authorities, covering all input features. We secured €900k in initial funding from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research!

Selected Publications

This is a list of selected publications:

• APR’2025
  Which Inputs Trigger My Patch?
  Martin Eberlein, Moeketsi Raselimo, and Lars Grunske
  In Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Automated Program Repair (APR 2025)

• FSE’2023
  Semantic Debugging
  Martin Eberlein, Marius Smytzek, Dominic Steinhöfel, Lars Grunske, and Andreas Zeller
  In Proceedings of the 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) 2023

• SSBSE’2020
  Evolutionary Grammar-Based Fuzzing
  Martin Eberlein, Yannic Noller, Thomas Vogel, and Lars Grunske
  12th Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering (SSBSE) 2020

All my papers can be found on Google Scholar, in the ACM Digital Library, and in DBLP.

Academic Service

Recent Program Committee Member:

• FSE’25 - Artifact Evaluation Track
• ISSTA’25 - Tool Demonstrations Track

Researchr provides a partial list of conference PC service.

Tools

I am currently working on:

• AVICENNA – A tool for explaining the input conditions that trigger pathological program behavior, such as bugs.
• EvoGFuzz – An evolutionary, grammar-based fuzzer designed to generate effective test inputs.

Additionally, together with Marius Smytzek, I work on:

• Tests4Py – A debugging benchmark for system testing, featuring a collection of real-world Python project bugs.
• FixKit – A suite of automated program repair techniques and approaches.

I am also involved in various other debugging projects. Feel free to explore more of my work on GitHub!

Teaching

I am organizing and assisting with teaching several courses at HU Berlin. In Summer 2025, I’ll be giving guest lectures on:

• Software Engineering II: Grammar-Based Fuzzing and Automated Explanation of Bugs I & II.
• Compiler Construction: Applications of compiler construction.

All courses.

Theses

If you are a computer science student at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and enjoy automated program testing, fuzzing, and debugging, consider doing a bachelor’s or master’s thesis with me. Open and Ongoing Theses

My Blog

Here is a selection of the most recent posts from my Blog:

• Evolutionary Grammar-Based Fuzzing (2023-07-23)
• How-To: Install any Python Version on HU-Cluster (2023-01-16)
• AlhazenML: Explaining Program Behavior (2022-08-01)

All blog posts.

Stay Tuned

I am always open to discussions, collaborations, and ideas in software engineering and debugging tools!

Contact me on LinkedIn or on X to stay updated on my work and relevant events.

Also, be sure to follow me on GitHub for our latest tools.