Anna-Maria Maurer
Chair of Software Engineering
Campus E1 1
Saarland Informatics Campus
Saarland University
Campus E1 1
Saarland Informatics Campus
Saarland University
| Room: | 2.14 |
| Phone: | +49(0)681 302 57221 |
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Courses
| SS 2025 |
| WS 2024/25 |
| SS 2024 |
Engagement for the Research Community
- IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), Replications and Negative Results track, 2026
- Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), Springer
Research Interests
- Empirical research in program comprehension
- How can EEG and Eye tracking help to analyze the processes in the brain of programmers?
- We want to gain a deeper understanding into how the brains of programmers reacts to certain code aspects, such as confusing code. For this, I design and conduct controlled experiments about how programmers understand code.
- Human–ML behavior alignment
- How similar do programmers and LLMs react to specific code patterns? What are similarities in internal representations and decision processes?
- The goal is to see where LLMs can emulate human strategies, augment developer workflows, and where alignment is needed to improve performance, trust, and communication.
Publications (copyright notice)
2026
Youssef Abdelsalam, Norman Peitek,
Anna-Maria Maurer, Mariya Toneva, and Sven Apel.
Are
Humans and LLMs Confused by the Same Code? An Empirical Study on
Fixation-Related Potentials and LLM Perplexity.
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering
(ICSE). ACM, April 2026.
Acceptance rate: 21% (320 / 1469); to appear.
2022
- Anna-Maria Maurer.
Sampling
Effect of Numeric Option Encoding on Performance Prediction of
Highly-Configurable Software Systems.
Master's thesis, Saarland Informatics Campus, Saarland University, October
2022.
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