Bianca Wiesmayr is a junior professor for software engineering at the Institute of Software Engineering and Programming Languages at the Ulm University since April 2026.

Before that, she worked as a postdoctoral reseracher at the Institute of Business Informatics - Software Engineering at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. She has conducted research in the project “Multi-Platform Model Simulation of Heterogeneous Industrial Automation Systems” funded by the Young Career program of the Upper Austrian LIT. From 2018 to 2025, Bianca Wiesmayr worked as a researcher at the LIT Cyber-Physical Systems Lab at Johannes Kepler University Linz. During this work, she has completed her doctoral degree in technical sciences (Dr. techn.) in 2023 in the field of Computer Science.  She holds a BSc and an MSc degree in Electronics/Information Technology from the same university, as well as a Master's degree in Law and Business Aspects in Technics.

Her research focuses on 

  • software engineering for industrial automation
  • model-driven software development,
  • and the usability of modeling tools
  • including AI support for domain experts in PLC programming. 

Bianca Wiesmayr is furthermore active in the project team of the open-source project Eclipse 4diac, which provides an infrastructure for the development of Industry 4.0 and IIoT systems.

Publications

2026

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Wiesmayr, Bianca; Garmendia, Antonio; Wimmer, Manuel; Greiner, Sandra
Towards Systematic Management of Semantic Variability in Real-World Executable Modeling Languages
MODELS '26: Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 29th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
Oktober 2026
DOI:10.1145/3822455.3838781
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Wiesmayr, Bianca; Garmendia, Antonio; Zoitl, Alois; Wimmer, Manuel
An Interpreter-Based Execution Framework for IEC 61499 Function Block Networks
The Journal of Object Technology, 25 (3), Seite 239-252
Juni 2026
DOI:10.5381/jot.2026.25.3.a17
Weblink:https://www.jot.fm/issues/issue_2026_03/a19.pdf
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Wiesmayr, Bianca; Zoitl, Alois; Walter, Jörg; Hästbacka, David
Modeling service choreographies and collaborations for autonomous mixed-fleet systems: using BPMN, IEC 61499, and SysML
Springer Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering, S.I.: MODEVAA/SAM 2024, 22 (18)
Juni 2026
DOI:10.1007/s11334-026-00641-9
Weblink:https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11334-026-00641-9.pdf