Muhammad Auwal Abubakar, M.Sc.

Office: WE5/03.043
Office hours: By appointment
Phone: +49 (0)951 863-2232
Email: muhammad.abubakar(at)uni-bamberg.de
Research Interests
- Agentic AI in Software Engineering
- Developer Skills and Expertise
Publications
Muhammad Auwal Abubakar, Seyedmoein Mohsenimofidi, Jai Lal Lulla, Jie M. Zhang, Christoph Treude, Sebastian Baltes, and Matthias Galster. An Exploratory Study of Agent Plans for Agentic AI Coding Tools in Open-Source Software. Accepted at the 20th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2026), Emerging Results, Vision, and Reflection Papers Track. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.04661
Matthias Galster, Seyedmoein Mohsenimofidi, Levi Böhme, Jai Lal Lulla, Muhammad Auwal Abubakar, Christoph Treude, and Sebastian Baltes. A Dataset of Agentic AI Coding Tool Configurations. In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Conference on AI-Powered Software (AIware ’26), July 6–7, 2026, Montreal, QC, Canada. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 9 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3805760.3814922
Matthias Galster, Seyedmoein Mohsenimofidi, Jai Lal Lulla, Muhammad Auwal Abubakar, Christoph Treude, and Sebastian Baltes. Configuring Agentic AI Coding Tools: An Exploratory Study. In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Conference on AI-Powered Software (AIware ’26), July 6–7, 2026, Montreal, QC, Canada. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 10 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3805760.3814887
Curriculum Vitae
01.01.2026 -
Present
PhD student and Research Associate at the Chair of Experimental Software Engineering, University of Bamberg 01.10.2023 - 31.01.2025 MSc International Information Systems, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg 18.11.2013 -
02.11.2017
BSc Computer Science & Information Technology, Federal University Dutsin-Ma, Nigeria