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Marvin Muñoz Barón

Teaching and Research Assistant, Doctoral Candidate
ISTE - Institute of Software Engineering
ESE - Empirical Software Engineering

Universitätsstraße 38
70569 Stuttgart
Deutschland
Room: 1.020

The best way to contact me is via e-mail. Message me, and we can set up a virtual or in-person meeting. You may contact me in English or German.

AI-Assisted Software Engineering – My PhD topic lies in the intersection between artificial intelligence (AI), software engineering (SE) and human aspects research. Specifically, I'm exploring how we can foster a trusting collaboration between software engineers and AI tools, with a primary focus on generative AI models such as GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer). This includes the interaction and collaboration with, and the impact of AI on the software engineering process. Ultimately, I hope to uncover frameworks to improve the interaction and the design of AI tools in a long-term, sustainable way, beyond the short-term hype.
Human-centered AI — In the broader context of AI, I am generally interested in how AI influences humans and, conversely, how humans influence AI. Human factors play a significant role in the design, implementation, and adoption of AI-based software and should therefore be at the heart of discussions about AI.
I am also involved in designing courses for teaching artificial intelligence in German vocational training through the KI B³ project.

Muñoz Barón, Marvin, Marvin Wyrich, Daniel Graziotin, and Stefan Wagner. “Evidence Profiles for Validity Threats in Program Comprehension Experiments.” To be published in Proceedings of the 45th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). 2023. Preprint
Muñoz Barón, Marvin. Validating the threats to validity in program comprehension experiments. MS thesis. 2022. Link
Muñoz Barón, Marvin, Marvin Wyrich, and Stefan Wagner. “An empirical validation of cognitive complexity as a measure of source code understandability.” Proceedings of the 14th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM). 2020. Link
Muñoz Barón, Marvin. A validation of cognitive complexity as a measure of source code understandability. BS thesis. 2019. Link

You can also find my publications on Google Scholar.

2023 WiSe: Master Thesis: The Impact of AI on Job Insecurity Perceptions of Software Engineering Students
2023 SoSe: Bachelor-Forschungsprojekt: Evaluating the Impact of Prompt Engineering on the Quality of AI-Generated Code
2023 SoSe: Studienprojekt Softwaretechnik: DermaScan - A mobile application for documenting medicinal data on skin conditions with automated AI classification.

2023 WiSe: Human Factors in AI (HFAI), B.Sc. Seminar
2023 WiSe: Programmentwicklung II (PE II), B.Sc. lecture
2023 SoSe: Einführung in die Softwaretechnik/das Software Engineering (EST/ESE) Übung, B.Sc. lecture
2022 WiSe: Programmentwicklung II (PE II), B.Sc. lecture

2022 - Now: PhD Student at the Empirical Software Engineering Group at the University of Stuttgart.
2022 (6 months): Software developer (working student) at Robert Bosch GmbH in the Cross-Domain Computing Solutions division.
2019 - 2022: M.Sc. in Software Engineering (Softwaretechnik) at the University of Stuttgart.
2015 - 2019: B.Sc. in Software Engineering (Softwaretechnik) at the University of Stuttgart.