About Me

I’m a former professional programmer now researching program comprehension and programmer expertise with fMRI, eye tracking and other psycho-physiological measures. While I currently work at the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology in Magdeburg, I’m enrolled as a PhD Student at the Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany.

In my free time, I published 200+ technical tutorials on Future Studio and 70+ videos on programming topics on YouTube.

News

• Our paper on reading order was accepted as ICPC! I will be attending ICSE/ICPC in South Korea in October.

Selected Publications

I also provide a list all publications, including links to PDFs.

• Siegmund, J., Peitek, N., Brechmann, A., Parnin, C., & Apel, S. (2020). Studying Programming in the Neuroage: Just a Crazy Idea? Communications of the ACM.
• Peitek, N., Siegmund, J., & Apel, S. (2020). What Drives the Reading Order of Programmers? An Eye Tracking Study. In Proc. Int’l Conf. Program Comprehension (ICPC). ACM.
• Peitek, N., Siegmund, J., Apel, S., Kästner, C., Parnin, C., Bethmann, A., Leich, T., Saake, G., & Brechmann, A. (2018). A Look into Programmers’ Heads. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE).
• Peitek, N., Siegmund, J., Parnin, C., Apel, S., Hofmeister, J., & Brechmann, A. (2018). Simultaneous Measurement of Program Comprehension with fMRI and Eye Tracking: A Case Study. Proc. Int’l Symposium Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), 24:1–24:10.
• Siegmund, J., Peitek, N., Parnin, C., Apel, S., Hofmeister, J., Kästner, C., Begel, A., Bethmann, A., & Brechmann, A. (2017). Measuring Neural Efficiency of Program Comprehension. Proc. Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering, 140–150.