Marc Schmidt, M.Sc. RWTH
Software Engineering
Department of Computer Science 3
RWTH Aachen University
Ahornstraße 55
D-52074 Aachen
+49 (241) 80-21359
schmidt@se-rwth.de
Room 4226
Department of Computer Science 3
RWTH Aachen University
Ahornstraße 55
D-52074 Aachen
+49 (241) 80-21359
schmidt@se-rwth.de
Room 4226
Research Areas
Applying agile development methodologies and best practices to research software engineering.
Running Theses
- Andreea Simona Berbece (Master’s Thesis): Recommendations for Efficient and Sustainable Research Software Engineering
- Can Taylan Kutbay (Bachelor’s Thesis): Analytical Evaluation of Semantic Enrichment for Semi-Structured Interview Transcripts
- Chenmin Gu (Bachelor’s Thesis): An Evaluation of Clusters as Coding Suggestions in a Thematic Analysis Workflow
- Daniel Heidchen (Bachelor’s Thesis): Comparison of Thematic Analysis and LLM-Based Approaches for Answering Research Questions
- Dhruvkumar Nareshkumar Sathawara (Master’s Thesis): A Methodological Framework for Evaluating Coding Suggestions in NLP-Assisted Qualitative Analysis
- Gunnar Lueders (Bachelor’s Thesis): An Interview Study on the Software Engineering Enablers of Production Ecosystems
- Henry Schoen (Bachelor’s Thesis): Challenges of Research Software Engineering in Quantum Physics: A Thematic Analysis of Qualitative Interviews
- Malte Ewald (Bachelor’s Thesis): Root Cause Analysis of Institute-level Inefficiencies in Research Software Development
- Maurice Rosenbaum (Bachelor’s Thesis): Automatic derivation of Class Diagrams from Python Projects and their reduction to comprehensible Sub-Diagrams.
- Nguyen, Hoang Phuong (Bachelor’s Thesis): Methodology for Evaluating AI-Based Semantic Enrichment of Interview Transcripts for Topic Clustering
Completed Theses
2026
Mai
- Pit Fischbach (Master’s Thesis): Durchführung einer Interviewstudie zur effizienteren und nachhaltigeren Entwicklung von Forschungssoftware
April
- Felix Klenner (Master’s Thesis): Parallel Measurement Software Framework for Quantum Devices
- Marc Lausberg (Bachelor’s Thesis): LLM-Based Extension of Static Code Analysis for Scientific Python Projects
März
- Dennis Prüne (Bachelor’s Thesis): A Domain-Specific Language for Date and Time Representations
- Edgar Fandrich (Bachelor’s Thesis): Towards the Integration of a Linter into a Research Software Engineering Process
- Elif Tufan (Bachelor’s Thesis): Automated Generation of Class Diagrams to Support Python Code Comprehension
- Elisabeth Tenbusch (Bachelor’s Thesis): Topic Modeling for Qualitative Interview Analysis
- Ming Cheng Lee (Master’s Thesis): An Incremental Approach to Documenting Python Projects Using Large Language Models
2025
Juli
- Marion Guoth (Master’s Thesis): Developing a Scientific Plotting Library with Scrum: A Case Study from Experimental Quantum Device Physics
2024
November
- Utkarsh Dubey (Master’s Thesis): Developing a Modular IDE Extension for Visualizing Domain-Specific Models
Juli
- Ngoc Khanh Nguyen (Bachelor’s Thesis): Streamlining the creation of Synchronized Editors by revising their language support and generator
Teaching
Summer Term 2026
Winter Term 2025/2026
- Lecture: Model-based Software Systems Engineering
- Seminar: Agile Development Practices for Research Software Engineering
Summer Term 2025
- Lecture: Software Language Engineering
- Seminar: Exploring Agile Development Methodologies and Best Practices for Research Software Engineering
Winter Term 2024/2025
Summer Term 2024
- Lecture: Software Language Engineering
- Lecture: Software Architectures
Winter Term 2023/2024
- Lecture: Model-based Software Systems Engineering