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Christian Berger
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Software Engineering 2 (SE2)About Christian Berger
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Professor Dr. Christian Berger is Full Professor for Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Christian Berger received his Ph.D. degree (Dr. rer. nat.) from RWTH Aachen University, Germany in 2010. He joined University of Gothenburg, Sweden in 2012 as Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor and Docent in Computer Science in 2015. In 2022, he was appointed Full Professor for Computer Science at University of Gothenburg.
He coordinated the research project “Caroline”, Europe’s best self-driving vehicle in the world’s first large-scale, vehicular robot race for urban environments: The 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. He co-led the Chalmers Truck Team during the 2016 Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge (GCDC), and is the leading software architect behind OpenDLV (Open Driverless Vehicle). He is Technical Lead for Software Engineering at Chalmers vehicle laboratory REVERE. He has published over 100 scientific papers in international conferences and journals and received numerous awards for his work.
He is founding member of the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems, and Software Program (WASP) Graduate School and he is serving as Director of Doctoral Studies at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Research
- Software-Defined Vehicles and Automotive Software Architectures
- Software Architectures for Distributed and Embedded Software Systems
- Data-Driven Software Engineering
- Trustworthy AI/ML-enabled Software Engineering
Awards
- 2023: George N. Saridis Best Paper Award for Outstanding Survey for Yue Kang, Hang Yin, and Christian Berger: “Test Your Self-Driving Algorithm - An Overview of Publicly Available Driving Datasets and Virtual Testing Environments”.
- 2023: Best Paper Award for Krishna Ronanki, Beatriz Cabrero-Daniel, Jennifer Horkoff, and Christian Berger: “RE-centric Recommendations for the Development of Trustworthy(er) Autonomous Systems.
- 2020: Best Paper Nominee for Federico Giaimo and Christian Berger: “Continuous experimentation for automotive software on the example of a heavy commercial vehicle in daily operation”.
- 2019: Best Paper Award for Jens Henriksson, Christian Berger, Markus Borg, Lars Tornberg, Sankar Raman Sathyamoorthy, and Cristofer Englund: “Performance Analysis of Out-of-Distribution Detection on Various Trained Neural Networks”.
- 2019: Awardee for the First 100-Listan of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, project Continuous-X.
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LLMs Can Check Their Own Results to Mitigate Hallucinations in Traffic Understanding
Tasks
Malsha Mahawatta, Beatriz Cabrero-Daniel, Yinan Yu, Christian Berger
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) - 2025 -
Comparing Optical Flow and Deep Learning to Enable Computationally Efficient Traffic Event Detection with Space-Filling
Curves
Tayssir Bouraffa, Elias Kjellberg Carlson, Erik Wessman, Ali Nourir, Pierre Lamart, Christian Berger
IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Proceedings, ITSC - 2024 -
Evaluating and Enhancing Trustworthiness of LLMs in Perception
Tasks
Malsha Mahawatta, Beatriz Cabrero-Daniel, Yinan Yu, Christian Berger
IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Proceedings, ITSC - 2024 -
Semantic-Aware Representation of Multi-Modal Data for Data Ingress: A Literature
Review
Pierre Lamart, Yinan Yu, Christian Berger
Proceedings of the Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, EUROMICRO-SEAA - 2024 -
Predicting Pedestrian Crossing Behavior in Germany and Japan: Insights into Model
Transferability
Chi Zhang, Janis Sprenger, Zhongjun Ni, Christian Berger
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles - 2024 -
ChatGPT as a Tool for User Story Quality Evaluation: Trustworthy Out
of the Box?
Krishna Ronanki, Beatriz Cabrero-Daniel, Christian Berger
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing - 2024 -
Predicting and Analyzing Pedestrian Crossing Behavior at Unsignalized
Crossings
Chi Zhang, Janis Sprenger, Zhongjun Ni, Christian Berger
IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Proceedings - 2024 -
Prompt Smells: An Omen for Undesirable Generative AI
Outputs
Krishna Ronanki, Beatriz Cabrero-Daniel, Christian Berger
Proceedings - 2024 IEEE/ACM 3rd International Conference on AI Engineering - Software Engineering for AI, CAIN 2024 - 2024 -
Welcome your new ai teammate: On safety analysis by leashing large language
models
Ali Nouri, Beatriz Cabrero-Daniel, Fredrik Torner, Hakan Sivencrona, Christian Berger
Proceedings - 2024 IEEE/ACM 3rd International Conference on AI Engineering - Software Engineering for AI, CAIN 2024 - 2024 -
On STPA for Distributed Development of Safe Autonomous Driving: An Interview
Study
Ali Nouri, Christian Berger, Fredrik Torner
Proceedings - 2023 49th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, SEAA 2023 - 2023 -
Systematic Evaluation of Applying Space-Filling Curves to Automotive Maneuver
Detection
Christian Berger, Beatriz Cabrero-Daniel, M. Cagri Kaya, Maryam Esmaeili Darestani, Hannah Shiels
IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Proceedings, ITSC - 2023 -
Analyzing Factors Influencing Pedestrian Behavior in Urban Traffic Scenarios using Deep
Learning
Chi Zhang, Christian Berger
Transportation Research Procedia - 2023 -
Pedestrian Behavior Prediction Using Deep Learning Methods for Urban Scenarios: A
Review
Chi Zhang, Christian Berger
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems - 2023 -
ZEBRA: Z-order Curve-based Event Retrieval Approach to Efficiently Explore Automotive
Data
Christian Berger, Lukas Birkemeyer
Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium - 2023 -
AirDnD-Asynchronous In-Range Dynamic and Distributed Network Orchestration
Framework
Malsha Mahawatta, Christian Berger, Yinan Yu
Proceedings - International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems - 2023 -
Evaluation of Out-of-Distribution Detection Performance on Autonomous Driving
Datasets
Jens Henriksson, Christian Berger, Stig Ursing, Markus Borg
Proceedings - 5th IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Testing, AITest 2023 - 2023 -
RE-centric Recommendations for the Development of Trustworthy(er) Autonomous
Systems
Krishna Ronanki, Beatriz Cabrero-Daniel, Jennifer Horkhoff, Christian Berger
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series - 2023 -
Cross or Wait? Predicting Pedestrian Interaction Outcomes at Unsignalized
Crossings
Chi Zhang, Amir Hossein Kalantari, Yue Yang, Zhongjun Ni, Gustav Markkula, Natasha Merat, Christian Berger
IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Proceedings - 2023 -
Spatial-Temporal-Spectral LSTM: A Transferable Model for Pedestrian Trajectory
Prediction
Chi Zhang, Zhongjun Ni, Christian Berger
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles - 2023 -
Formally Robust and Safe Trajectory Planning and Tracking for Autonomous
Vehicles
Y. S. Yu, D. Shan, O. Benderius, Christian Berger, Y. Kang
Ieee Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems - 2022 -
Traction Adaptive Motion Planning and Control at the Limits of
Handling
L. Svensson, M. Bujarbaruah, A. Karsolia, Christian Berger, M. Torngren
Ieee Transactions on Control Systems Technology - 2022 -
Over 60,000 km in a year: remotely collecting large-volume high-quality data from a logistics
truck
Christian Berger, A. Karsolia, Federico Giaimo, Ola Benderius
Sn Applied Sciences - 2022 -
Learning the Pedestrian-Vehicle Interaction for Pedestrian Trajectory
Prediction
Chi Zhang, Christian Berger
2022 8th International Conference on Control, Automation and Robotics (ICCAR), 8-10 April 2022, IEEE - 2022 -
Adaptive monitoring for autonomous vehicles using the HAFLoop
architecture
E. Zavala, X. Franch, J. Marco, Christian Berger
Enterprise Information Systems - 2021 -
Performance analysis of out-of-distribution detection on trained neural
networks
J. Henriksson, Christian Berger, M. Borg, L. Tornberg, S. R. Sathyamoorthy, C. Englund
Information and Software Technology - 2021 -
Social-IWSTCNN: A social interaction-weighted spatio- temporal convolutional neural network for pedestrian trajectory prediction in urban traffic
scenarios
Chi Zhang, Christian Berger, Marco Dozza
IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, 11-17 July 2021, Proceedings - 2021 -
Principles for Re-architecting Software for Heterogeneous
Platforms
Hugo Sica de Andrade, Christian Berger, Ivica Crnkovic, Jan Bosch
Proceedings of the 27th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC) - 2020 -
Continuous Experimentation for Automotive Software on the Example of a Heavy Commercial Vehicle in Daily
Operation
Federico Giaimo, Christian Berger
Proceedings of the European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA) - 2020 -
Continuous experimentation and the cyber-physical systems challenge: An overview of the literature and the industrial
perspective
F. Giaimo, H. Andrade, Christian Berger
Journal of Systems and Software - 2020 -
HAFLoop: An architecture for supporting Highly Adaptive Feedback Loops in self-adaptive
systems
E. Zavala, X. Franch, J. Marco, Christian Berger
Future Generation Computer Systems-the International Journal of Escience - 2020 -
Evolution of technical debt: An exploratory
study
Abdullah Al Mamun, Antonio Martini, Miroslaw Staron, Christian Berger, Jörgen Hansson
Mensura 2019 - 2019 -
The Automotive Take on Continuous Experimentation: A Multiple Case
Study
Federico Giaimo, Hugo Sica de Andrade, Christian Berger
2019 45th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA). Kallithea, Greece, 28-30 Aug. 2019 - 2019 -
Performance Analysis of Out-of-Distribution Detection on Various Trained Neural
Networks
J. Henriksson, Christian Berger, M. Borg, L. Tornberg, S. R. Sathyamoorthy, C. Englund
2019 45th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA), Kallithea, Greece, 28-30 Aug. 2019 - 2019 -
Test Your Self-Driving Algorithm: An Overview of Publicly Available Driving Datasets and Virtual Testing
Environments
Yue Kang, Hang Yin, Christian Berger
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles - 2019 -
Systematic benchmarking for reproducibility of computer vision algorithms for real-time systems: The example of optic flow
estimation
B. Nguyen, Christian Berger, O. Benderius
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2019, Macau, China, Nov 4-8, 2019 - 2019 -
Towards Structured Evaluation of Deep Neural Network
Supervisors
J. Henriksson, Christian Berger, M. Borg, L. Tornberg, C. Englund, S. R. Sathyamoorthy, S. Ursing
Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Testing (AITest) - 2019 -
Effects of measurements on correlations of software code
metrics
Abdullah Al Mamun, Christian Berger, J. Hansson
Empirical Software Engineering - 2019 -
Microservice Architectures for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems: A
Case-Study
Jannik Lotz, Andreas Vogelsang, Ola Benderius, Christian Berger
Proceedings of the Workshop for Automotive Software Architectures (WASA) - 2019 -
The Best Rated Human-Machine Interface Design for Autonomous Vehicles in the 2016 Grand Cooperative Driving
Challenge
Ola Benderius, Christian Berger, Victor Malmsten Lundgren
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems - 2018 -
On Using Blockchains for Safety-Critical
Systems
Christian Berger, B. Penzenstadler, O. Drogehorn
SEsCPS '18 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Smart Cyber-Physical Systems - 2018 -
When to Use What Data Set for Your Self-Driving Car Algorithm: An Overview of Publicly Available Driving
Datasets
Hang Yin, Christian Berger
Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC). 16 -19 Oct 2017, Yokohama, Japan - 2017 -
Design Criteria to Architect Continuous Experimentation for Self-Driving
Vehicles
F. Giaimo, Christian Berger
2017 Ieee International Conference on Software Architecture (Icsa 2017) - 2017 -
Containerized Development and Microservices for Self-Driving Vehicles: Experiences & Best
Practices
Christian Berger, B. Nguyen, O. Benderius
2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture Workshops (Icsaw) - 2017 -
Predicting and Evaluating Software Model Growth in the Automotive
Industry
Jan Schröder, Christian Berger, Alessia Knauss, Harri Preenja, Ali Mohammad, Miroslaw Staron, Thomas Herpel
IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME). 17-22 Sept. 2017, Shanghai, China - 2017 -
Considerations About Continuous Experimentation for Resource-Constrained Platforms in Self-driving
Vehicles
Federico Giaimo, Christian Berger, Crispin Kirchner
Software Architecture. ECSA 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10475 - 2017 -
Scaling agile development in mechatronic organizations - A comparative case
study
Ulrik Eklund, Christian Berger
Proceedings. IEEE/ACM 39th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice Track, ICSE-SEIP 2017. 20-28 May 2017, Buenos Aires, Argentina - 2017 -
Proving Ground Support for Automation of Testing of Active Safety Systems and Automated
Vehicles
Alessia Knauss, Christian Berger, Henrik Eriksson, Niklas Lundin, Jan Schröder
4th International Symposium on Future Active Safety Technology towards Zero-Traffic-Accidents (FAST-zero) - 2017 -
Comparison of model size predictors in
practice
Jan Schröder, Christian Berger, Alessia Knauss, Harri Preenja, Ali Mohammad, Miroslaw Staron, Thomas Herpel
Proceedings - 2017 IEEE/ACM 39th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion, ICSE-C 2017 - 2017 -
Software-related challenges of testing automated
vehicles
Alessia Knauss, Jan Schröder, Christian Berger, Henrik Eriksson
Proceedings. IEEE/ACM 39th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion, ICSE-C 2017. Buenos Aires, Argentina — May 20 - 28, 2017 - 2017 -
Mastering data complexity for autonomous driving with adaptive point clouds for urban
environments
Hang Yin, Christian Berger
IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Proceedings - 2017
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