On 18 January 2026, Rose Sunil, research associate in our “Secure Software Engineering” workgroup, was awarded the Paderborn University Society Prize for her outstanding master's thesis "Leveraging Large Language Models for Call Graph Construction: Benchmarking and Evaluation Across Languages" at the traditional New Year's reception at Paderborn University.
She investigated the potential of large language models (LLMs) for the analysis of programme dependencies and developed two new open source benchmark frameworks, SWARM-CG and SWARM-JS, for a systematic evaluation. Their work shows that AI-supported approaches complement classic static analysis methods and can significantly improve the recognition of complex, dynamic structures in code. This increases software quality, security and efficiency in the long term. The results were published in the renowned journal Empirical Software Engineering and open up new avenues for hybrid analysis methods in software engineering.
In his laudatory speech, Prof Dr Eric Bodden praised the scientific depth, methodological precision and innovative approaches of the work.
Congratulations, Rose!
