In this talk, I offer ten tips for doing your PhD from an “evil” perspective—i.e., in ways that may sound reasonable in the short run but will hurt in the long run. I complement each tip with a good (but more boring) perspective that promises to be better for you. Enjoy!

Andreas Zeller is faculty at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, and professor for Software Engineering at Saarland University. His research on automated debugging, mining software archives, specification mining, and security testing has been highly influential. Andreas is one of the few researchers to have received two ERC Advanced Grants, most recently for his S3 project. He is an ACM Fellow and holds an ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award.

You can find Andreas on Mastodon as @AndreasZeller@mastodon.social, on X as @AndreasZeller, and on LinkedIn as andreaszeller.