Nico Hauff
|  | Nico HauffUniversity of Freiburg Georges-Köhler-Allee 52 79110 Freiburg building 052, room 00-021 | 
Research Interests
Requirements Engineering, Natural Language Processing
Publications
ORCiD • DBLP • Google Scholar • Semantic Scholar • LinkedIn
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Hanfor: Requirements Formalisation and Beyond. REFSQ 2025 Posters and Tools. 
 Together with Elisabeth Henkel, Tobias Kolzer, Vincent Langenfeld, Andreas Podelski
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Scalable Redundancy Detection for Real-Time Requirements. RE 2024. 
 Together with Elisabeth Henkel, Lena Funk, Vincent Langenfeld, Andreas Podelski.
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Systematic adaptation and investigation of the understandability of a formal pattern language. 
 Requirements Engineering (Springer).
 Together with Elisabeth Henkel, Lukas Eber, Vincent Langenfeld, Andreas Podelski.
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An Empirical Study of the Intuitive Understanding of a Formal Pattern Language. REFSQ 2023. 
 Together with Elisabeth Henkel, Lukas Eber, Vincent Langenfeld, Andreas Podelski.
 REFSQ'23 Best Paper Award.
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Hanfor: Semantic Requirements Review at Scale. REFSQ 2021 Posters and Tools. 
 Together with Samuel Becker, Daniel Dietsch, Elisabeth Henkel, Vincent Langenfeld, Andreas Podelski and Bernd Westphal.
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Self-supervised Transfer Learning for Instance Segmentation through Physical Interaction. IROS 2019. 
 Together with Andreas Eitel, Wolfram Burgard.
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Learning to Singulate Objects Using a Push Proposal Network. ISRR 2017. 
 Together with Andreas Eitel, Wolfram Burgard.
MSc Thesis
- Simulator for Formalized Requirements. 2022.
Tools
Lectures & Seminars
- Supervise students in BSc Pro-/Seminar Automatentheorie (summer semester 2023, 2024, 2025)
- Co-organize Softwarepraktikum (winter semester 2022, 2023, 2024)
Student Project Co-/Supervisions
If you are interested in a project or thesis, send me an email. Choose a topic from the list below, or bring your own.
| Internship | Systematic prompt generation with DSPy (Reference) | Ongoing | 
| BSc Thesis | Resetting monitors for real-time requirements | Ongoing | 
| BSc Project | Pre-check for rt-Inconsistency based on Phase Event Automata | 2024 | 
| BSc Project | LLM Assisted Formalization of Natural Language Requirements | 2024 | 
| BSc Project | Detection of Variable Constraints in (Parallel) Execution of Phase Event Automata in the Hanfor Simulator | 2024 | 
| Internship | Replication: Neural termination analysis (Reference) | 2023 | 
| BSc Thesis | Monitoring real-time requirements in ROS2 (Reference) | 2023 | 
| BSc Thesis | Complementation of Phase Event Automata | 2023 | 
Consultation Hours
Please send me an email to make an appointment.
