I am a doctoral researcher at the Software Technology Group working on artificial intelligence for software engineering. My focus is on large language models (LLMs) for code generation, where I am trying to enhance the quality and security of the generated code through inference-time approaches such as retrieval or constrained decoding.

See also the interview about my work on the hessian.AI blog.

Bachelor/Master Theses: I am currently at full capacity and cannot supervise any additional theses. Please refrain from contacting me.

Short Biography

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since 2022PhD, Software Technology, TU Darmstadt
2020 - 2022MSc, Computer Science, TU Darmstadt
2016 - 2020BSc, Computer Science, TU Darmstadt

Publications

2025

Benchmarking web API integration code generation.
Maninger, Chemnitz, Sharifloo, Brugger, Mezini, AIWARE. 10.1109/aiware69974.2025.00034

Where do LLMs still struggle? An in-depth analysis of code generation benchmarks.
Sharifloo, Heydari, Kazerooni, Maninger, Mezini, AIWARE. 10.1109/aiware69974.2025.00035

2024

Towards trustworthy AI software development assistance.
Maninger, Narasimhan, Mezini, ICSE. 10.1145/3639476.3639770