Toni Mattis

Toni Mattis is a Ph.D. researcher and teaching assistant at the Software Architecture Group of the Hasso Plattner Institute (University of Potsdam, Germany). His work integrates artificial intelligence into software engineering practices, focusing on live programming environments, code repositories mining, and test prioritization.

His research interests center around:

• Software modularity and architectural knowledge reification
• Exploratory programming and live programming environments
• Machine learning applications on code repositories
• Test prioritization techniques using AI and lexical analysis

Recent publications analyze:

• AI-generated dynamic context for program comprehension (2024)
• Parallel version control for exploratory programming (2025)
• Game-based contexts for example-driven development (2024)
• Task complexity modeling in software maintenance (2022-2023)

Scientific recognition includes:

• 2018 3rd Prize ACM Student Research Competition
• 2017 2nd Prize ACM Student Research Competition
• German Academic Scholarship Foundation (2010-2014)
• Multiple national computer science contest awards (2009)

As educator, he has designed and supervised:

• Master's seminars on AI for Programming (2024)
• Code repository mining courses (2017-2020)
• Software testing modules covering TDD, BDD, and mutation testing