Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dirk Müller

• I offer supervision of final theses in Software Engineering and in Operating Systems. Especially - but not restricted to - topics with references to the programming language Rust - maybe refactorings in or to Rust - are welcome.

CV

• 1995 High school diploma (Abitur) with deepened mathematical-scientific education at Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium Chemnitz
• 1995-2002 Studies of Medical Informatics at University of Leipzig including 2 semesters abroad studies at Mid Sweden University in Sundsvall in Sweden
• 2002 Diploma in Informatics, thesis „Krümmungsbasierte Unterteilung der Hirnoberfläche“
• 2003-2006 Research Associate and Ph.D. student at University of Kassel
• 2006 Graduation to Dr.-Ing., dissertation „Subpixel-Filterung für eine autostereoskopische Multiperspektiven-3-D-Darstellung hoher Qualität“
• 2006-2008 Research Associate at Philipps-University Marburg
• 2008-2014 Research Associate at TU Chemnitz
• August 2010 Visiting scientist at Florida State University at Tallahassee hosted by Prof. Ted Baker
• 2014 Graduation to Dr.-Ing. habil. with thesis „Schedulability Tests for Real-Time Uni- and Multiprocessor Systems“
• 2014-2016 Privatdozent in Computer Science at TU Chemnitz
• since 2016 Professor in Computer Science at HTW Dresden
• since June 2021 active member of the faculty council
• since April 2023 IEEE Senior Member

Research

• Digitalization in Companies and in Administration
• Real-time Systems and RT scheduling
• Model-driven Software Development and Model Refactoring
• Concept of Information and Metaphors
• Autostereoscopic Displays

• Erdős number: max. 4 (path via Andrew Odlyzko, Serge Demeyer and Tom Mens, but weak link Odlyzko-Demeyer by proceedings of WebNet 2000)
• Strict Erdős number: max. 5 (paths via Joel H. Spencer, Tobias Friedrich, Rudolf Berghammer and Wolfgang Hesse as well as via Jeffrey O. Shallit, Raymond Devillers, Elisabeth Pelz and Matthias Werner) )

Community Service

• Managing Editor, Computer Science (Books) at Versita in 2012/13
• Reviewer of the journal IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems since 2012
• Reviewer of the journal Real-Time Systems since 2016
• Reviewer of the journal The Computer Journal since 2018
• Reviewer of the journal Embedded Selforganising Systems since 2018

Teaching

Theses

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• Bachelor's thesis Allgemeine Informatik, Mauritius Berger: „Evaluation von Hybrid-Cloud-Lösungen auf Basis von Kubernetes im Vergleich zu konventionellen Systemen“, defense on 27/02/2024; as supervisor and first reviewer
• Bachelor's thesis Medieninformatik, Oliver Kupplmayr: „Konzeption eines User-Centered-Designs für einen Editor zur Konfiguration eines prozessangepassten Operator UI im produktiven Umfeld“, defense on 03/04/2024; as supervisor and first reviewer
• Bachelor's thesis Medieninformatik, Mohammed Hijazi: „Untersuchung der IT-Rollen in einem KMU und die Abhängigkeit ihrer Aufgaben von der Unternehmensgröße“, defense on 19/06/2024; as supervisor and first reviewer
• Bachelor's thesis Allgemeine Informatik, Tan Minh Ho: „Entwurf, Implementierung und Evaluierung einer Event-Driven Architecture für die Optimierung von Echtzeit-Ereignisverarbeitung in Unternehmensanwendungen“, defense on 26/06/2024; as supervisor and first reviewer
• Bachelor's thesis Medieninformatik, Tim Börner: „Development and Integration of a Large Language Model-Based CRM Tool for Enhanced User Communication“, defense on 14/08/2024; as supervisor and first reviewer
• Diploma thesis Medieninformatik, Theo Epperlein: „Entwicklung eines Konzepts zur Implementierung eines Firmenstandards durch Evaluierung von Teststrategien für proprietäre Software“, defense on 24/09/2024; as supervisor and first reviewer

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• Bachelor's thesis Medieninformatik, Enrico Hasenclever: „Ganzkörper-Avatar-Steuerung durch monokulare Kameraeingabe und maschinelles Lernen“, defense on 17/07/2025; as supervisor and first reviewer
• Bachelor's thesis Informatik, Clemens Näther: „Entwicklung einer universellen Suchmethode für verschiedene Datenbasen im ITC PowerCommerce“, defense on 14/08/2025; as supervisor and first reviewer
• Bachelor's thesis Informatik, Roshan Shiwakoti: „Evaluation, Konzeption und prototypische Entwicklung eines sicheren Proxysystems zur elektronischen Zahlungsabwicklung über Point-of-Sale-Terminals mit Kassenintegration“, defense on 26/09/2025; as supervisor and first reviewer
• Bachelor's thesis Medieninformatik, Laura Richter: „Evaluation, Konzeption und prototypische Entwicklung eines Präsentations-Frameworks auf Basis von Webtechnologien und Open-Source-Software-Werkzeugen“, defense on 21/10/2025; as supervisor and first reviewer
• Master's thesis Angewandte Informatik, Richard Böhme: „Improving Ruby Developer Tooling: Can Runtime Type Information Be Used to Avoid Having to Write Types?“, defense on 04/11/2025; as supervisor and first reviewer
• Master's thesis Angewandte Informatik, Fabian A. Kuhne: „Development and Evaluation of a Solution for the Automatic Generation of CMake Build Presets and their Rule-Based Restriction“, defense on 18/11/2025; as supervisor and first reviewer

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• Bachelor's thesis Medieninformatik, Theodor Weinreich: „Konzeption und prototypische Implementierung einer KI-unterstützten CI-Pipeline zur Verbesserung von Softwaresicherheit und Codequalität“, defense on 04/03/2026; as supervisor and first reviewer

Summer term 2025

• Lecture Software Engineering II
• Lecture Software Factories
• Lecture Programmieren in Rust

Winter term 2025/26

• Lecture Betriebssysteme I
• Lecture Software Engineering I
• Lecture Modellgetriebene Softwareentwicklung

Summer term 2026

• Lecture Software Engineering II
• Lecture Modellgetriebene Softwareentwicklung
• Lecture Programmieren in Rust

last modified: March 11, 2026