Jan Philip Bernius

Research Associate

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Hello world!
I am a post-doctoral researcher in the Research Groups for for Applied Software Engineering (Prof. Bruegge) and Educational Research (Prof. Krusche). My research focuses on computer science education and automated assessments with a focus on textual exercises. In addition, I am teaching the lecture courses Introduction to Software Engineering (~2,200 students) and Patterns in Software Engineering (~800 students) at TUM. Further, I am a maintainer of the open-source learning platform Artemis.

📄 Publications

↓ 2022

Automatic Assessment of Textual Exercises. Jan Philip Bernius.
Dissertation. Technische Universtität München. Munich (Germany), Submitted on June 24th.

Machine Learning Based Feedback on Textual Student Answers in Large Courses. Jan Philip Bernius, Stephan Krusche and Bernd Bruegge.
In: Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence 3 (2022). ISSN: 2666-920X.

Global Software Engineering in a Global Classroom. Paul Schmiedmayer, Robert Chatley, Jan Philip Bernius, Stephan Krusche, Konstantin Chaika, Kirill Krinkin and Bernd Bruegge.
In: Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering - Software Engineering Education and Training (ICSE SEET 2022). Pittsburgh, PA (USA), May 2022.

↓ 2021

A Machine Learning Approach for Suggesting Feedback in Textual Exercises in Large Courses. Jan Philip Bernius, Stephan Krusche and Bernd Bruegge.
In: Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale (L@S '21). Potsdam (Germany), June 2021. [bibtex]

Toward Computer-Aided Assessment of Textual Exercises in Very Large Courses. Jan Philip Bernius. SRC 1^st Place
In: Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '21). Toronto, ON (Canada), March 2021. [bibtex]

↓ 2020

Towards the Automation of Grading Textual Student Submissions to Open-ended Questions. Jan Philip Bernius, Anna Kovaleva, Stephan Krusche and Bernd Bruegge.
In: Proceedings of the 4th European Conference of Software Engineering Education (ECSEE 2020). Seeon (Germany), May 2020. [bibtex]

Segmenting Student Answers to Textual Exercises Based on Topic Modeling. Jan Philip Bernius, Anna Kovaleva and Bernd Bruegge.
In: Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Software Engineering im Unterricht der Hochschulen (SEUH 2020). Innsbruck (Austria), February 2020. [bibtex]

↓ 2019

Toward Usability Problem Identification Based on User Emotions Derived from Facial Expressions. Jan Ole Johanssen, Jan Philip Bernius, and Bernd Bruegge.
In: Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Emotion Awareness in Software Engineering (SEmotion 2019). Montréal (Canada), May 2019. [bibtex]

Toward the Automatic Assessment of Text Exercises. Jan Philip Bernius and Bernd Bruegge.
In: Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Innovative Software Engineering Education (ISEE 2019). Stuttgart (Germany), February 2019. [bibtex]

📢 Presentations

↓ 2022

AI / Machine Learning in Education.
TUM Campus Heilbronn – Oxford Internet Institute Winter Meeting. Heilbronn (Germany), November 2022.

Automatic Assessment of Textual Exercises. Rigorosum
Technical University of Munich. Garching (Germany), November 2022.

Automatic Assessment of Textual Exercises. Invited Talk
Imperial College London, Dept. of Computing's EdTech Lab. London (United Kingdom), October 2022.

↓ 2021

Automatisierte Korrektur von Freitextaufgaben.
Vernetzungs- und Praxisworkshops (Bayerisches Kompetenzzentrum für Fernprüfungen). Virtual, October 2021.

A Machine Learning Approach for Suggesting Feedback in Textual Exercises in Large Courses.
8th ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale (L@S '21). Virtual, June 2021.

Toward Computer-Aided Assessment of Textual Exercises in Very Large Courses. SRC 1^st Place
52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '21). Virtual, March 2021.

Toward Computer-Aided Assessment of Textual Exercises in Very Large Courses (Poster). SRC 1^st Place
52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '21). Virtual, March 2021.

↓ 2020

Towards the Automation of Grading Textual Student Submissions to Open-ended Questions.
4th European Conference of Software Engineering Education (ECSEE 2020). Virtual, June 2020.

Segmenting Student Answers to Textual Exercises Based on Topic Modeling (Poster).
17th Workshop on Software Engineering im Unterricht der Hochschulen (SEUH 2020). Innsbruck (Austria), February 2020.

↓ 2019

Toward the Automatic Assessment of Text Exercises.
2nd Workshop on Innovative Software Engineering Education (ISEE 2019). Stuttgart (Germany), February 2019.

👤 Short CV

Doctorate in Computer Science
Technical University of Munich, Germany
2018 – 2022

Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Information Systems
Technical University of Munich, Germany
2016 – 2018

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Information Systems
Technical University of Munich, Germany
2013 – 2016

Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD)
Ridley College, ON, Canda
2012 – 2013

🏆 Awards

• 2021: Ernst Otto Fischer Teaching Award 2^nd Place
• 2021: ACM Student Research Competition (SIGCSE '21) 1^st Place
• 2020: TeachInfAward for outstanding support during Corona

🏛 Program Committees & Organization

↓ 2023

• Program Committee: 5th International Workshop on Software Engineering Education for the Next Generation (SEENG 2023). Melbourne (Australia), May 2022.

↓ 2022

• Reviewer: Computers & Education: Artificial Intelligence (ISSN: 2666-920X)
• Program Committee: 4th International Workshop on Software Engineering Education for the Next Generation (SEENG 2022). Virtual, May 2022.

↓ 2020

• Technical Administration: 32nd IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering Education & Training (CSEE&T 2020). Munich (Germany), November 2020.

💻 Projects

• Athena: Automatic correction of free text exercises (description in German)
• Artemis
• Feedback2Go (iPraktikum WS 22/23)
• B/S/H/ SmartGrow — Companion for Bosch SmartGrow indoor gardening device (iPraktikum WS 19/20)
• Traffic Light Aid — Predicting switching patterns of Traffic Lights (iPraktikum SS 19)
• Cataract — Collect data on patients visual preferences (JASS 2019)
• cARgemini — Smart Incident Support in Assembly Lines using AR (iPraktikum WS 18/19)
• Continuous Usage- and Rationale-based Evolution Decision Support (CURES)
• HipRApp — Hip Rehabilitation App (iPraktikum SS 17)
• Quartett Home — Safely control your HomeKit enabled Home Accessories from your car's Multi-Media Interface (iPraktikum WS 15/16)
• incapptic — Next-Generation B2B App Store (iPraktikum WS 14/15)

👨‍🏫 Teaching

Winter 2022/23	Patterns in Software Engineering | Seminar: Interactive Learning | Praktikum: Interactive Learning
Summer 2022	Seminar: Interactive Learning | Praktikum: Interactive Learning | Introduction to Software Engineering | Joint Advanced Student School (JASS) | Ferienakademie
Winter 2021/22	Patterns in Software Engineering | Seminar: Interactive Learning | Praktikum: Interactive Learning
Summer 2021	Introduction to Software Engineering | Seminar: Interactive Learning | Praktikum: Interactive Learning | Ferienakademie
Winter 2020/21	Patterns in Software Engineering | Seminar: Interactive Learning | Praktikum: Interactive Learning | Joint Advanced Student School (JASS)
Summer 2020	Introduction to Software Engineering | Seminar: Interactive Learning | Praktikum: Interactive Learning | Ferienakademie
Winter 2019/20	iPraktikum | Joint Advanced Student School (JASS)
Summer 2019	iPraktikum | Project Organization and Management (Lecture on Branch and Merge Management)
Winter 2018/19	iPraktikum | Joint Advanced Student School (JASS)

📚 Theses

I can currently not supervise any additional thesis.

↓ 2022

19. Automatic Correction of Programming Exercises with Artemis & GitLab CI.
    Benjamin Schmitz. TUMKolleg. December 2022.
20. Design of a User Interface for Feedback Management Systems.
    Valerie Bucher. Bachelor's Thesis. April 2022.
21. Language Independent Text Assessment.
    Tim Cremer. Bachelor's Thesis. April 2022.

↓ 2021

16. Changing the Grading Criteria During the Assessment in Learning Management Systems.
    Merve Pinar. Master's Thesis. December 2021.
17. Training Athene Based On Existing Assessments.
    Argert Boja. Master's Thesis. December 2021.
18. Explainable Assessment Systems.
    Ndricim Rrapi. Master's Thesis. October 2021.
19. Toward Automated Assessment of Textual Descriptions of Software Patterns Using Knowledge Graphs.
    Maisa Ben Salah. Bachelor's Thesis. September 2021.
20. Knowledge Graphs in Assessment Systems: An Ontological Approach.
    Michal Kawka. Bachelor's Thesis. September 2021.

↓ 2020

11. Optimizing and Scaling Automatic Assessments of Textual Exercises for Very Large Lectures.
    Linus Michel. Master's Thesis. November 2020.
12. Detecting Inconsistent Grading for Textual Exercises.
    Birtan Gültekin. Master's Thesis. November 2020.
13. Exercise Assessment Managment in Artemis by Students and Instructors.
    Jonas Petry. Bachelor's Thesis. October 2020.
14. Utilizing Hierarchical Clustering to Optimize Automatic Text Assessment Quality.
    Can Arisan. Bachelor's Thesis. September 2020.
15. Increasing Accuracy of Automatic Assessment for Textual Exercises by applying context-specific incremental training of ELMo models.
    Adem Khachnaoui. Bachelor's Thesis. August 2020.
16. Evaluation of Siamese Networks for improving similarity-based clustering of Textual Student Answers.
    Clemens Zuck. Master's Thesis. June 2020.
17. Confidence of Automatic Feedback for Textual Exercises.
    Ngoc-Minh Tran. Bachelor's Thesis. March 2020.

↓ 2019

1. Text Segmentation Based on Topic Modeling Applied to Students' Answers to Textual Exercises.
   Anna Kovaleva. Bachelor's Thesis. September 2019.
2. A Formative Process for the Assessment of Textual Exercises in Very Large Lectures.
   Gregor Ziegltrum. Bachelor's Thesis. August 2019.
3. Improvements of the Quiz Functionality in ArTEMiS.
   Ekaterina Sebina. Master's Thesis. April 2019.
4. Usability Evaluation of the Quiz Exercise Creation in ArTEMiS.
   Ekaterina Sebina. Guided Research. April 2019.

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