Researcher

Michael Pradel

Pradel earned an ETH PhD on automatic, precise error detection and later worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Berkeley and a faculty member at Darmstadt. As of October 2026, he holds roles at Stuttgart and CISPA. He took a sabbatical at Facebook in Menlo Park in 2019. He gave talks in 2023 on neural software analysis and in 2024 on neuro-symbolic tools for analyzing, executing and repairing code.

Works
214
Citations
5,963
h-index
43

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.

Photo of Michael Pradel

Timeline

  1. As of October 2026

    Program-analysis training

    Pradel earned an ETH PhD on automatic, precise error detection and later worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Berkeley and a faculty member at Darmstadt. As of October 2026, he holds roles at Stuttgart and CISPA.

  2. 2019

    Industry research visit

    He took a sabbatical at Facebook in Menlo Park in 2019.

  3. 2023–2024

    Neural and symbolic developer tools

    He gave talks in 2023 on neural software analysis and in 2024 on neuro-symbolic tools for analyzing, executing and repairing code.

Sources and credits

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  1. Michael Pradel - Software Lab - Department of Computer Science - University of Stuttgart software-lab.org. Checked 13 October 2026.