Moritz Mock
PhD Student
About Me
Moritz Mock is a PhD student in Advanced-Systems Engineering (ASE) at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. He holds a Master of Science in Software Engineering for Information Systems from the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. His main research interest includes mining open-source projects to detect vulnerabilities utilizing static and machine-learning approaches. He is currently working with Prof. Barbara Russo's research group.
Conference Publications
Moritz Mock, Thomas Forrer, and Barbara Russo, Cross-Domain Evaluation of Transformer-Based Vulnerability Detection on Open & Industry Data In: Scanniello, G., Lenarduzzi, V., Romano, S., Vegas, S., Francese, R. (eds) Product-Focused Software Process Improvement. Industry, Doctoral-Symposium, Tutorial, and Workshop Papers. PROFES 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 16362. Springer, Cham.
doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-12092-2_3🏆 Best Industry Paper Award
Barbara Russo, Jorge Melegati and Moritz Mock, Leveraging Multi-Task Learning to Improve the Detection of SATD and Vulnerability, 2025 IEEE/ACM 33rd International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), Ottawa, ON, Canada, 2025, pp. 01-12.
doi.org/10.1109/ICPC66645.2025.00017Moritz Mock, Thomas Borsani, Giuseppe Di Fatta and Barbara Russo, Optimizing Deep Learning Models to Address Class Imbalance in Code Comment Classification, 2025 IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Natural Language-Based Software Engineering (NLBSE), Ottawa, ON, Canada, 2025, pp. 45-48.
doi.org/10.1109/NLBSE66842.2025.00016Moritz Mock, Jorge Melegati, Max Kretschmann, Nicolás E. Díaz Ferreyra, and Barbara Russo. MADE-WIC: Multiple annotated datasets for exploring weaknesses in code. In 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE '24), October 28–November 1, 2024, Sacramento, CA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4 pages.
doi.org/10.1145/3691620.3695348Moritz Mock, Thomas Forrer, and Barbara Russo. Where do developers admit their security-related concerns? In: Marchesi, L., et al. Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops. XP 2024. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 524. Springer, Cham.
doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-72781-8_3Moritz Mock, Jorge Melegati, and Barbara Russo. Generative AI for Test Driven Development: Preliminary Results. In: Marchesi, L., et al. Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops. XP 2024. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 524. Springer, Cham.
doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-72781-8_21Moritz Mock. Utilization of Machine Learning for the Detection of Self-admitted Vulnerabilities. In: Kadgien, R., Jedlitschka, A., Janes, A., Lenarduzzi, V., Li, X. (eds) Product-Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14484. Springer, Cham.
doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49269-3_15Barbara Russo, Matteo Camilli, and Moritz Mock. WeakSATD: Detecting Weak Self-admitted Technical Debt. In 19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR ’22), May 23–24, 2022, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 6 pages.
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3524842.3528469Journal Publications
Moritz Mock, Thomas Borsani, Giuseppe Di Fatta and Barbara Russo, Beyond Balance - Addressing Class Imbalance in Fine-Tuning Deep Learners, Science of Computer Programming, 2026, 103474.
doi.org/10.1016/j.scico.2026.103474Conference Organization
20th European Conference on Software Architecture - ECSA'26 2026
Web ChairBolzano, IT
conf.researchr.org/committee/ecsa-2026/ecsa-2026-organizing-committee5th Intl. Workshop on NL-based Software Engineering - NLBSE'26 (co-located with ICSE'26) 2026
Competition Co-ChairRio de Janeiro, BR
nlbse2026.github.io/organisationInternational Conference on Software Engineering - ICSE'25 2025
Student VolunteeringOttawa, CA
International Conference on Agile Software Development - XP'24 2024
Student VolunteeringBozen-Bolzano, IT
Program Committee
European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming 2026 - ECOOP'26 2026
Member of the Program Committee of the Artifact EvaluationBrussels, Belgium
2026.ecoop.org/track/ecoop-2026-artifact-evaluationIntl. Workshop on Mining Software Repositories Applications for Privacy and Security - MSR4P&S (co-located with SANER'26) 2026
Member of the Program CommitteeLimassol, CY
msr4ps.github.io/committee.htmlMining Software Repositories 2026 - MSR'26 2025
Member of the Junior Program CommitteeRio de Janeiro, BR
2026.msrconf.org/track/msr-2026-junior-pcIntl. Workshop on Mining Software Repositories Applications for Privacy and Security - MSR4P&S (co-located with SANER'25) 2025
Member of the Program CommitteeMontréal, CA
msr4ps.github.io/2025/committee.htmlMining Software Repositories 2025 - MSR'25 2025
Member of the Junior Program CommitteeOttawa, CA
2025.msrconf.org/track/msr-2025-junior-pcAI for Agile Software Engineering (Workshop) - AI4ASE (co-located with XP'24) 2024
Member of the Program CommitteeBozen-Bolzano, IT
Mining Software Repositories 2024 - MSR'24 2024
Member of the Junior Program CommitteeLisbon, PRT
2024.msrconf.org/track/msr-2024-junior-pcJournal Reviewer
Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Papers reviewed in 2026
Journal of Systems and Software (JSS)
Papers reviewed in 2025, 2026
Information and Software Technology (IST)
Papers reviewed in 2024, 2025, 2026
Teaching
Free University of Bolzano-Bozen October 2025 – August 2026
Teaching Assistant – Tools and Techniques for Software TestingBozen-Bolzano, IT
Main lecturer: Prof. Barbara Russo
Hours: 17
Free University of Bolzano-Bozen October 2024 – August 2025
Teaching Assistant – Operating SystemsBozen-Bolzano, IT
Main lecturer: Prof. Andrea Janes
Hours: 20
Free University of Bolzano-Bozen April 2023, May 2024, December 2024
Guest Lecturer – Master class Software Maintenance and EvolutionBozen-Bolzano, IT
Invited by: Dr. Jorge Melegati
Title: How to mine software repositories