The VCLA International Student Awards aim to recognize and support students all over the world for their outstanding scientific works in the field of Logic and Computer Science in two categories:

• Outstanding Master Thesis Award
• Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award

Awards

• Outstanding Master Thesis Award:  1200 EUR
• Outstanding Undergraduate Research (Bachelor) Award:  800 EUR
• The winners will be invited to present their work at an award ceremony in Vienna (previously FLoC 2018, Vienna 2016, Vienna 2015)

Important Dates

The deadline for the 2019 call was March 25, 2019.

The deadline for submission of nominations for the degrees awarded between November 15th, 2018 and December 31st, 2019 (inclusive) will be announced in January 2020.

VCLA Award Committee

Ezio Bartocci	Revantha Ramanayake (committee co-chair)
Wolfgang Dvořák	Christoph Redl
Ekaterina Fokina	Peter Schüller
Robert Ganian (committee co-chair)	Mantas Simkus
Maximilian Jaroschek	Sebastian Skritek
Roman Kuznets	Friedrich Slivovsky
Martin Lackner	Bhore Sujoy
Bjoern Lellmann	Johannes Wallner
Magdalena Ortiz (general chair)	Antonius Weinzierl
Matteo Pascucci

In Memoriam

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, besides 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.

The fourth edition of the VCLA International Student Awards 2019

The highly successful fourth edition of the VCLA International Student Awards was concluded on Friday, June 28, 2019 with the announcement of two winners in two award categories. The winners of the 2019 edition of the VCLA International Student Awards are:

Outstanding Master Thesis Award

• Martín Muñoz (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) for the master thesis Descriptive Complexity for Counting Complexity Classes under the supervision of Marcelo Arenas and Cristian Riveros.

Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award

• Alexej Rotar (TU München) for the undergraduate thesis The Satisfiability Problem for Fragments of PCTL under the supervision of Jan Kretinsky.

Details coming soon here

The 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 announcement 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).

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.

Details and the photo gallery here

The 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)

Honorable Mention

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

Details and photo gallery here

The 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