Christoph TREUDE
Full-time Faculty
Associate Professor of Computer Science
School of Computing and Information Systems
SCIS
Qualification
- PhD, University of Victoria, 2012
Teaching Topics
- Digital Business
Research Advisor/Co-Research Advisor to
Research Areas and Areas of Expertise
Strategic Priorities
HighlightsChristoph Treude is an internationally recognized leader in empirical software engineering, specializing in human-AI collaboration, software documentation, and the integration of large language models in software development, with extensive contributions to research, teaching, and global academic service.
Combines rigorous empirical research with methodological innovation in AI-powered software engineering; advances reproducibility, inclusivity, and automation in software development; bridges human and AI collaboration for practical impact; recognized for leadership in global research communities and editorial roles; consistently emphasizes real-world deployment, ethical considerations, and open science.
Focused research areas include Human-centered generative AI in software engineering; empirical studies of developer behavior and productivity; reproducibility and technical debt in scientific software; automation and trustworthiness in agentic AI systems; software supply chain security; improving code review and documentation with AI; diversity and inclusion in software engineering communities.
Combines rigorous empirical research with methodological innovation in AI-powered software engineering; advances reproducibility, inclusivity, and automation in software development; bridges human and AI collaboration for practical impact; recognized for leadership in global research communities and editorial roles; consistently emphasizes real-world deployment, ethical considerations, and open science.
Focused research areas include Human-centered generative AI in software engineering; empirical studies of developer behavior and productivity; reproducibility and technical debt in scientific software; automation and trustworthiness in agentic AI systems; software supply chain security; improving code review and documentation with AI; diversity and inclusion in software engineering communities.
Areas of Expertise
Software EngineeringEmpirical Software EngineeringHuman-AI InteractionAI for ScienceAI4SE
Past Awarded Grant
- CREDO: Comprehend, Refactor, and Decide with Orchestrated Agents - A Framework for Legacy System Evolution, SMU Internal Grant, Ministry of Education (MOE) Tier 1, PI: Christoph TREUDE, 2025, S$125,000
- Systematic Evaluation of the Trustworthiness of Agentic AI Systems, SMU Internal Grant, Ministry of Education (MOE) Tier 1, PI: JIANG Lingxiao, Co-PI: HUO Yintong, Christoph TREUDE, 2025, S$150,000
- Mitigating Software Supply Chain Attacks through Automation and Code Ownership, SMU Internal Grant, Ministry of Education (MOE) Tier 1, PI: Christoph TREUDE, 2024, S$104,906
- CREDO: Comprehend, Refactor, and Decide with Orchestrated Agents - A Framework for Legacy System Evolution, SMU-SUTD Partnership Call, Ministry of Education (MOE) Tier 1, PI: Christoph TREUDE, Ezekiel Soremekun, Co-PI: Chris POSKITT, 2025, SGD125,000
- Socialz - Multi-Objective Automated Social Fuzz Testing, Facebook Research Award, Facebook, Co-PI: Christoph TREUDE, 2021, USD92,784
Latest Publications
Showing up to 6 latest publications from the past 5 years.
- N Nazar, S Sikka, C TreudeEmpirical Software Engineering 31 (3), 53, 2026
- NA Ernst, C TreudearXiv preprint arXiv:2603.08951, 2026
- Just-in-time bug classifier: A step towards integrating Automated Program Repair in CI/CD pipelines [2026]V Kabadi, XBD Le, P Thongtanunam, C TreudeInformation and Software Technology, 108076, 2026
- H Gao, HY Lin, C Treude, G Gay, M ZahediarXiv preprint arXiv:2603.00489, 2026
- M Galster, S Mohsenimofidi, JL Lulla, MA Abubakar, C Treude, S BaltesarXiv preprint arXiv:2602.14690, 2026
- ModARO: A Modular Approach to Architecture Reconstruction of Distributed Microservice Codebases [2026]O Manglaras, A Farkas, T Woolford, C Treude, M WagnerarXiv preprint arXiv:2602.08181, 2026
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Qualification
- PhD, University of Victoria, 2012
Teaching Topics
- Digital Business