Tobias Dürschmid

Tobias Dürschmid

ASSISTANT TEACHING PROFESSOR
COMPUTER SCIENCE

Email: duerschmid@cs.ucla.edu

Websites

RESEARCH AND INTERESTS
Software Engineering and Development
NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS
  • “Experience Report on Teaching ‘Designing Large‑scale Software Systems (17‑ 423 / 17‑723)’, actual title blinded for submission to CSEE&T ’25”, Tobias Dürschmid and Eunsuk Kang, In: Under Submission at Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training. CSEE&T ’25. Draft available here. 2025.
  • “ROSInfer: Statically Inferring Behavioral Component Models for ROS‑based Robotics Systems”, Tobias Dürschmid, Christopher S. Timperley, David Garlan, and Claire Le Goues, In: International Conference on Software Engineering. ICSE ’24. 2024. DOi: 10.1145/3597503.3639206.
  • “ROSDiscover: Statically Detecting Run‑Time Architecture Misconfigurations in Robotics Systems”, Christopher S. Timperley, Tobias Dürschmid, Bradley Schmerl, David Garlan, and Claire Le Goues, In: International Conference on Software Architecture. ICSA ’22. 2022, pp. 112–123. DOi: 10.1109/ICSA53651.2022.00019.
  • “Synthesis‑Based Resolution of Feature Interactions in Cyber‑Physical Systems”, Benjamin Gafford, Tobias Dürschmid, Gabriel A. Moreno, and Eunsuk Kang, In: International Conference on Automated Software Engineering. ASE ’20. 2020, pp. 1090–1102. DOi: 10.1145/3324884.3416630.
  • “Trade‑off‑Oriented Development – Making Quality Attribute Trade‑offs First‑Class”, Tobias Dürschmid, Eunsuk Kang, and David Garlan, In: International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results Track. ICSE‑NIER ’19. 2019, pp. 109–112. DOi: 10.1109/ICSE-NIER.2019.00036.
EDUCATION
  • PhD in Software Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 2025
  • Master's in Software Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 2023
  • B.S. in IT Systems Engineering, Hasso Plattner Institute, University Of Potsdam, 2018
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
  • Best Paper Award, SIGGRAPH Asia 2017
  • 1st Place in the 2017 ACM Student Research Competition
  • Recipient of the Scholarship of the “Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes” (German Academic Scholarship Foundation), the largest and most prestigious scholarship in Germany, given to less than 0.5 % of students in Germany.