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Effective January 1, 2026, CISPA-Faculty Prof. Dr. Andreas Zeller has been elevated to IEEE Fellow. Fellow is the highest grade of membership in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world's largest professional organization for electrical engineering, computing, and related technical disciplines. Less than 0.1 percent of the IEEE voting membership receive this prestigious honor each year. Andreas Zeller is recognized for his outstanding contributions to analyzing software and its development process.
IEEE counts over 500,000 members in more than 190 countries. It publishes approximately a third of the technical literature in electrical engineering, computing, and electronics, and sponsors over 2.000 conferences each year. The grade of Fellow is reserved for IEEE senior members who have distinguished themselves through outstanding achievements in their respective disciplines. The appointment of IEEE Fellows is preceded by a rigorous evaluation process. Of 1,268 nominations for 2026, only 350 members were appointed as Fellows.
Professor Dr. Andreas Zeller is tenured Faculty at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security and professor for Software Engineering at Saarland University. He has devoted his academic career to software security: Zeller's research focuses mainly on automated debugging, mining software archives, specification mining, and security testing. The sustained international significance of his research is evidenced by a total of nine Test of Time Awards. These awards honor the lasting impact of individual research contributions. He is also one of the few researchers to have received two ERC Advanced Grants from the European Research Council. Andreas Zeller is an ACM Fellow and a member of the Academia Europaea. He holds an ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award as well as an ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award.
About his induction into the IEEE Fellows program, Zeller says: “I am very proud that my colleagues have chosen me for this special honor from the IEEE. It is the IEEE's stated goal to place technological progress at the service of humanity. It's in this light that I also see my own work on software security: People need secure applications if they are to partake of the digital world with confidence.”
About CISPA
The CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security is a national Big Science institution within the Helmholtz Association. It explores information security in all its facets in order to comprehensively and holistically address the pressing major challenges of cybersecurity and trustworthy artificial intelligence that our society faces in the digital age. CISPA holds a global leadership position in the field of cybersecurity, combining cutting-edge and often disruptive foundational research with innovative applied research, technology transfer, and societal discourse. Thematically, it aims to cover the entire spectrum from theory to empirical research. It is internationally recognized as a training ground for the next generation of cybersecurity experts and scientific leaders in the field.
CISPA-Faculty Professor Dr. Andreas Zeller
Source: Tobias Ebelshäuser
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CISPA-Faculty Professor Dr. Andreas Zeller
Source: Tobias Ebelshäuser
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