Max Weber

Leipzig University
Chair of Software Systems
Augustusplatz 10
04109 Leipzig

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P624 (Paulinum)
+49 (0) 341 97 323 81
max.weber@informatik.uni-leipzig.de

Research Interest

  • Performance analysis and energy consumption optimization
  • Configurable software systems
  • Energy bug detection

Thesis Supervision

I supervise undergraduate and graduate theses aligned with my research interests. If my research areas resonate with you and you’re considering writing your thesis in this field, feel free to reach out!

Finished and ongoing theses
  • [Master] Influence of Virtualization on Energy Models
  • [Bachelor] A Practical Guide for Energy Measurements in Virtual Environments
  • [Bachelor] Code-Level Energy Consumption in DevOps Pipelines on Virtualized Systems
  • [Bachelor] Configuring a DevOps Pipeline: Energy Consumption and Optimization Opportunities
  • [Master] Evaluation of Active Learning for Comprehending Feature Influences on Energy Consumption of Configurable Software Systems: A Function-Level Analysis
  • [Bachelor] The Conguration Space of Machine Learning and its Impact on Energy Consumption, Accuracy, and Performance
  • [Master] Transfer Learning für feingranulare Energiemodelle konfigurierbarer Softwaresysteme
  • [Bachelor] SoftVR: Finding Energy Bugs in Configurable Software Systems
  • [Bachelor] Feingranulare Energiemodelle auf Methodenebene
  • [Bachelor] Analyse von Energiemessungen zur Erstellung eines Energie-Benchmarks
  • [Bachelor] Energy Consumption in Practice
  • [Bachelor] Tailoring Your VR Experience For Understanding Software Systems

Publications

2025

  • Max Weber, Johannes Dorn, Sven Apel, and Norbert Siegmund. FAMLEM, the FAst ModuLar Energy Meter at Code Level. ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), Tool Demonstration, June, 2025. to appear.

2024

2023

2022

2021

Talks

  • SE 2024: Is Performance a reliable Proxy for Energy Consumption?
  • ICSE 2023: Twins or False Friends? A Study on Energy Consumption and Performance of Configurable Software
  • Saarbrücken 2023: Green Configuration: White-Box Analysis for Modeling and Debugging Energy Consumption of Configurable Software
  • FOSD 2022: SoftVR: Immersive Performance Bug Detection
  • ICSE 2021: White-Box Performance-Influence Models: A Profiling and Learning Approach
  • FOSD 2021: The Relation of Energy Consumption and Performance
  • FOSD 2019: Black-Box Performance-Influence Models on Method Level
  • FOSD 2018: Supporting the Discovery of Performance Hot-Spots