Biography of Dr. Linghui Luo

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I have accepted a W3-Professorship at the University of Hamburg. I will officially start in this new role on 1st September 2026. My research will focus on building trustworthy, secure, and practical software systems, with particular emphasis on Secure Software Engineering for AI-integrated Systems and Software Engineering for Edge AI.

I am currently looking for motivated PhD students to join my team at the University of Hamburg. If you are interested in research at the intersection of AI, Software Engineering, and Security, and you are passionate about solving real-world problems through research, I would be very happy to hear from you.

I am also the CEO of ClioAssist GmbH, where we build privacy-first, on-premise AI solutions for healthcare. Previously, I was an applied scientist at Amazon Web Services for a few years, working on both AI and Cybersecurity products such as Amazon Q, CodeWhisperer and CodeGuru Security. These blogs (here and here) should give you a glimpse of my work at AWS. Before joining Amazon, I was a research associate in the Secure Software Engineering Group at Paderborn University in Germany. I received my PhD from Paderborn University in 2021, with distinction, under the advisement of Prof. Eric Bodden. I also hold both a master’s and bachelor’s degree from Paderborn University.

My research spans various areas of software engineering and security. I have been working in following research areas:

• Improving Security Practices: A core focus of my work is developing innovative approaches to strengthen security practices in software development. With the growing adoption of Generative AI for code generation and agentic AI systems, I am particularly interested in ensuring the security, reliability, and trustworthiness of AI-generated code and agentic AI systems.
• Scalability and Performance: I explore methods to enhance scalability of static analyses, with balancing to soundness.
• Usability and Integration: Recognizing the importance of seamless tool integration into developers’s workflow, I am dedicated to find ways that improve the usability and integration of static analyses.
• Advancement in Static Analysis Frameworks: I’m committed to advancing the state-of-the-art in static analysis frameworks to meet evolving industry demands.
• Benchmarking and Evaluation: I am passionate about establishing rigorous benchmarks and evaluation methods to assess effectiveness of static analysis tools.

My contributions to the research field have been recognized with prestigious awards, notably the Ernst Denert Software Engineering Award 2021 - an award for an outstanding research contribution in the field of methods, tools, and procedures for software development by the Software Engineering Department of the German Informatics Society (GI) in cooperation with the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) and the Swiss Informatics Society (SI).

Apart from my research work, I also actively serve as a program committee member at top conferences such as ESEC/FSE, ICSE, and ISSTA in the field.

Contribution to Open Source

I am the creator of MagpieBridge and a contributer to Soot and SootUp.

Contact

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✉ linghui[at]outlook.de

Life Outside of Work

Together with my husband, I keep three beloved pets: a dog, a cat and a black cat. I love to spend my time with my pets and do sports such as hiking and bouldering. I also enjoy music and play the cello.