VCLA International Student Awards

The VCLA International Student Awards are given to authors of outstanding scientific works in the field of Logic and Computer Science in two categories:

• Outstanding Master Thesis Award
• Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award

In 2018 the VCLA International Awards were co-sponsored by the Wolfgang Pauli Institute – WPI Fellowship.

Third edition of the VCLA International Student Awards 2018

The highly successful third edition of the VCLA International Student Awards was concluded on Monday, June 11, 2018 with the annoucement of two winners in two award categories. The winners of the 2018 edition of the VCLA International Student Awards are:

Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award

• Tomáš Lamser (Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic) for his thesis “Algorithmic Analysis of Patrolling Games” under the supervision of Professor Antonín Kučera (Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic).

Listen to the presentation of his thesis here (coming soon).

Outstanding Master Thesis Award

• Jeremy Liang An Kong (Imperial College London, United Kingdom) for his thesis “MCMAS-Dynamic: Symbolic Model Checking Linear Dynamic Logic” under the supervision of Professor Alessio Lomuscio (Imperial College London, United Kingdom).

Read and/or listen to the presentation of his thesis here.

The award is dedicated to the memory of Helmut Veith, the brilliant computer scientist who tragically passed away in March 2016, and aims to carry on his commitment to promoting young talent and promising researchers in these areas. Another piece of Veith´s legacy, beside Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms, is the Helmut Veith Stipend for Female Master´s Students at TU Wien, Austria. Its mission is to honour the legacy of Helmut Veith in serving the field of Computer science at TU Wien and the society at large by identifying, and supporting the female talents who possess the curiosity in the research fields of the late scholar.

Details and the photo gallery here

Second edition of the VCLA International Student Awards 2016

The highly successful second edition of the VCLA International Student Awards was concluded on April 16, 2016 with the celebration of two winners. The winners of the 2015 edition of the VCLA International Student Awards are:

Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award

• Felix Dörre (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) for his thesis “Verification of Random Number Generators”

Outstanding Master Thesis Award

• Valeria Vignudelli (University of Bologna), for her thesis “The Discriminating Power of Higher-Order Languages: A Process Algebraic Approach” (Bologna)

Honourable Mention

• Maximilian Schleich (Oxford University) for the work “Learning Regression Models over Factorised Joins”

Details and photo gallery here

First edition of the VCLA International Student Awards 2015

The VCLA announced the first edition of the VCLA International Student Awards in the course of the largest event in the history of logic taking place in Vienna, in the Summer of 2014. The Vienna Summer of Logic (VSL) consisted of twelve large conferences and numerous workshops, attracting over 2000 researchers from all over the world.

The highly successful first edition of the VCLA International Student Awards was concluded on Friday, May 15, 2015 with the celebration of four winners in two award categories. The winners of the 2014 edition of the VCLA International Student Awards are:

Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award

• Pablo Muñoz, University of Chile, New Complexity Bounds for Evaluating CRPQs with Path Comparisons

Outstanding Master Thesis Award

• Kuldeep S. Meel, Rice University, Sampling Techniques for Boolean Satisfiability
• Luke Schaeffer, University of Waterloo, Deciding Properties of Automatic Sequences
• Sophie Spirkl, University of Bonn, Boolean Circuit Optimization

Details and the photo gallery here