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Maria Christakis

Univ.Prof.in Dr.in sc.

Research Focus

  • Information Systems Engineering: 100%

Research Areas

  • Program Analysis, Formal Methods, Test Generation, Software Engineering
Maria Christakis

About

Maria Christakis's research goal is to develop theoretical foundations and practical tools for building more reliable and usable software and increasing developer productivity. She is primarily interested in software engineering and formal methods. Maria particularly likes investigating topics in automatic test generation, program analysis, and software verification. Her tools and techniques explore novel ways in writing, specifying, verifying, testing, and debugging programs in order to make them more robust while improving the developer experience.

For more information, please visit her personal website.

Roles

  • Head of Research Unit
    Software Engineering, E194-01
  • Full Professor
    Software Engineering, E194-01
  • Curriculum Coordinator
    Bachelor / Specialization / Software Engineering
  • Curriculum Coordinator
    Master / Area / Software Engineering and Programming
  • Curriculum Coordinator
    Master Software Engineering
  • Faculty Council
    Principal Member

Contact

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2025S

 

  • Just Nail It: Systematic Testing for Complex Systems / Christakis, M. (2025, June 10). Just Nail It: Systematic Testing for Complex Systems [Conference Presentation]. MPI-SWS Research Symposium, Germany. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/217207
  • Interrogation Testing of Program Analyzers for Soundness and Precision Issues / Christakis, M. (2025, February 24). Interrogation Testing of Program Analyzers for Soundness and Precision Issues [Presentation]. 70th IFIP WG2.4 Meeting on Software Implementation Technology, Singapore, Singapore.
  • Fuzzing Processing Pipelines for Zero-Knowledge Circuits / Hochrainer, C., Isychev, A., Wüstholz, V., & Christakis, M. (2024). Fuzzing Processing Pipelines for Zero-Knowledge Circuits. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2411.02077
    Download: Fuzzing Processing Pipelines for Zero-Knowledge Circuits (716 KB)
    Projects: ForSmart (2023–2027) / MirandaTesting (2023–2028)
  • Inductive Predicate Synthesis Modulo Programs (Extended) / Wesley, S., Christakis, M., Navas, J. A., Trefler, R., Wüstholz, V., & Gurfinkel, A. (2024). Inductive Predicate Synthesis Modulo Programs (Extended). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.34726/7020
    Download: Preprint (1.24 MB)
    Project: ForSmart (2023–2027)
  • Automatically Testing Functional Properties of Code Translation Models / Eniser, H. F., Wüstholz, V., & Christakis, M. (2024). Automatically Testing Functional Properties of Code Translation Models. In Proceedings of the 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (pp. 21055–21062). AAAI Press. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v38i19.30097
    Download: PDF (155 KB)
  • Verifying Global Two-Safety Properties in Neural Networks with Confidence / Athavale, A., Bartocci, E., Christakis, M., Maffei, M., Ničković, D., & Weissenbacher, G. (2024). Verifying Global Two-Safety Properties in Neural Networks with Confidence. In A. Gurfinkel & V. Ganesh (Eds.), Computer Aided Verification (pp. 329–351). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65630-9_17
    Projects: Browsec (2018–2024) / ForSmart (2023–2027) / ProbInG (2020–2025) / SFB SPyCoDe (2023–2026) / TAIGER (2023–2027)
  • Olympia: Fuzzer Benchmarking for Solidity / Chadt, J., Hochrainer, C., Wüstholz, V., & Christakis, M. (2024). Olympia: Fuzzer Benchmarking for Solidity. In ASE ’24: Proceedings of the 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (pp. 2362–2365). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3691620.3695352
    Download: PDF (648 KB)
    Project: ForSmart (2023–2027)
  • Constraint-Based Test Oracles for Program Analyzers / Fleischmann, M., Kaindlstorfer, D. M., Isychev, A., Wüstholz, V., & Christakis, M. (2024). Constraint-Based Test Oracles for Program Analyzers. In V. Filkov, B. Ray, & M. Zhou (Eds.), ASE ’24: Proceedings of the 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (pp. 344–355). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3691620.3695035
    Download: PDF (712 KB)
    Project: MirandaTesting (2023–2028)
  • Inductive Predicate Synthesis Modulo Programs / Wesley, S., Christakis, M., Navas, J. A., Trefler, R., Wüstholz, V., & Gurfinkel, A. (2024). Inductive Predicate Synthesis Modulo Programs. In 38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024) (pp. 1–30). https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.43
    Download: PDF (1.18 MB)
    Project: ForSmart (2023–2027)
  • New fuzzing biases for action policy testing / Eisenhut, J., Schuler, X., Fiser, D., Höller, D., Christakis, M., & Hoffmann, J. (2024). New fuzzing biases for action policy testing. In Vol. 34 (2024): Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling. 34th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2024), Banaff, Alberta, Canada. AAAI Press. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/200060
  • Towards Translating Real-World Code with LLMs: A Study of Translating to Rust / Eniser, H. F., Zhang, H., David, C., Wang, M., Christakis, M., Paulsen, B., Dodds, J., & Kroening, D. (2024). Towards Translating Real-World Code with LLMs: A Study of Translating to Rust. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2405.11514
    Download: The technical report (466 KB)
  • Interrogation Testing of Program Analyzers for Soundness and Precision Issues / Kaindlstorfer, D., Isychev, A., Wüstholz, V., & Christakis, M. (2024). Interrogation Testing of Program Analyzers for Soundness and Precision Issues. In ASE ’24: Proceedings of the 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (pp. 319–330). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3691620.3695034
    Download: PDF (848 KB)
    Project: MirandaTesting (2023–2028)
  • ISSTA 2024: Proceedings of the 33rd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis / Christakis, M., & Pradel, M. (Eds.). (2024). ISSTA 2024: Proceedings of the 33rd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1145/3650212
  • Specifying and Testing k-Safety Properties for Machine-Learning Models / Christakis, M. (2023, November 8). Specifying and Testing k-Safety Properties for Machine-Learning Models [Presentation]. 68th IFIP WG2.4 (Online) Meeting on Software Implementation Technology, Austria.
  • Automatically Testing Functional Properties of Code Translation Models / Eniser, H. F., Wüstholz, V., & Christaki, M. (2023). Automatically Testing Functional Properties of Code Translation Models. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2309.12813
  • Rigorous Software Engineering / Christaki, M. (2023, July 26). Rigorous Software Engineering [Presentation]. Microsoft Research talks, Redmond, United States of America (the). http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/187864
  • Dependency-Aware Metamorphic Testing of Datalog Engines / Numair Mansur, M., Wüstholz, V., & Christakis, M. (2023). Dependency-Aware Metamorphic Testing of Datalog Engines. In ISSTA 2023: Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (pp. 236–247). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3597926.3598052
    Download: PDF (398 KB)
    Project: MirandaTesting (2023–2028)
  • Green Fuzzer Benchmarking / Ounjai, J., Wüstholz, V., & Christakis, M. (2023). Green Fuzzer Benchmarking. In ISSTA 2023: Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (pp. 1396–1406). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3597926.3598144
    Download: PDF (307 KB)
    Project: MirandaTesting (2023–2028)
  • Rigorous Software Engineering / Christaki, M. (2023, June 13). Rigorous Software Engineering [Keynote Presentation]. SBA IMPACT 2023, Wien, Austria. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/187788
  • Rigorous Software Engineering / Christaki, M. (2023, February 2). Rigorous Software Engineering [Presentation]. Automated Reasoning Symposium Technical Talk, United States of America (the). http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/187849
  • Software Bug Detection: Challenges and Synergies / Böhme, M., Christaki, M., Padhye, R., Serebryany, K., Zeller, A., & Eniser, H. F. (2023). Software Bug Detection: Challenges and Synergies. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.4230/DagRep.13.3.92
  • Automatic Metamorphic Test Oracles for Action-Policy Testing / Eisenhut, J., Torralba, Á., Christakis, M., & Hoffmann, J. (2023). Automatic Metamorphic Test Oracles for Action-Policy Testing. In S. Koenig, R. Stern, & M. Vallati (Eds.), Proceedings of the Thirty-Third International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (pp. 109–117). Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. https://doi.org/10.1609/icaps.v33i1.27185
    Download: PDF (313 KB)
  • Specifying and Testing k-Safety Properties for Machine-Learning Models / Christaki, M., Eniser, H. F., Hoffmann, J., Singla, A., & Wüstholz, V. (2023). Specifying and Testing k-Safety Properties for Machine-Learning Models. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-23) (pp. 4748–4757). International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2023/528
    Download: PDF (327 KB)
    Project: Nomos (2022–2030)
  • Synthesizing a Progression of Subtasks for Block-Based Visual Programming Tasks / Tercan, A., Ghosh, A., Eniser, H. F., Christaki, M., & Singla, A. (2023). Synthesizing a Progression of Subtasks for Block-Based Visual Programming Tasks. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2305.17518
    Download: PDF (2.37 MB)
  • Rigorous Methods for Smart Contracts / Bjørner, N., Christakis, M., Maffei, M., & Rosu, G. (Eds.). (2022). Rigorous Methods for Smart Contracts (Dagstuhl Seminar 21431). Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4230/DagRep.11.9.80
    Projects: Browsec (2018–2024) / Ethertrust (2018–2019) / PR4DLT (2018–2021) / PROFET (2019–2023)