Alexander Lill
Research Assistant
Short Bio
I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Zurich since September 2020, and I am supervised by Prof. Thomas Fritz.
You can find additional information about me and links to my other web profiles on my personal homepage: alexanderlill.eu
Research Areas
Teaching
- HS24
- HS23
- FS23
- FS22
- HS21
- FS21
- HS20
Supervision
- “CA$H: Collaborative Agent Software Hierarchy – An Agent-Based Approach for Concept Location and Change Propagation in Software Evolution”, Master Project, Christoph Bachmann and Valentin Hollenstein, completed November 2025, co-supervision with Dr. André N. Meyer
- “Generating FAQs from Chat Conversations”, Master Project, Ikenna Nwalor and Dominik Sarman, completed August 2024
- “Educational AI Companion for ACCESS”, Master Project, Aramis Facchinetti Nataell Cornu, Tomás Mendonça, completed August 2024, co-supervision with Dr. Carol Alexandru
- “Task-Management with Microtasking”, Bachelor Thesis, Samuele Walzer, completed October 2023, co-supervision with Anastasia Ruvimova
- “ScreenCurator – Curation of digital knowledge with screenshots”, Bachelor Thesis, Christoph Bachmann, completed August 2023, co-supervision with Roy Rutishauser
- “Detecting Related Stack Overflow Posts for Discord Conversations”, Master Thesis, Artemis Ioanna Kardara, completed in November 2022
- “I am Stuck. Characteristics of Stuck Phases During Software Development”, Bachelor Thesis, Samuel Brügger, completed in August 2022, co-supervision with Roy Rutishauser
- “P.E.T. calendar – A time-management software that considers energy levels to assist in scheduling tasks”, Bachelor Thesis, Micha Eschmann, completed in July 2022, co-supervision with Anastasia Ruvimova
- “AmbientTeams: Staying socially connected in remote knowledge work teams”, Master Thesis, Dario Bugmann, completed in July 2021, co-supervision with Dr. André N. Meyer
- “Self-experimentation and Reflection at Work to Form Productive Habits”, Master Project, Sebastian Richner and Michael Ziörjen, completed in September 2021, co-supervision with Anastasia Ruvimova
Publications
- An Exploratory Study of Productivity Perceptions in Software Teams, ICSE 2022
- Cultivating a Team Mindset about Productivity with a Nudge: A Field Study in Hybrid Development Teams, CSCW 2023
- On the Helpfulness of Answering Developer Questions on Discord with Similar Conversations and Posts from the Past, ICSE 2024
- Remote Workplace Interactions and Extraversion: A Field Study on Wellbeing and Productivity Among Knowledge Workers, CSCW 2025
- TaCoS: Generated Context Summaries for Task Resumption, ICSE 2026
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