The Helmut Veith Stipend was officially awarded to the recipients (8th edition – submission period end of November 2023) during an award ceremony on December 18, 2024! This edition was a special one, as for the first time, the selection process concluded with the announcement of four recipients: Tatiana Beliaeva, Esther Mugdan, Ivana Bocevska, and Raquel Panadero Palenzuela.

VCLA Co-Chairs Agata Ciabattoni and Stefan Szeider introduced the VCLA and the Helmut Veith Stipend. While doing so, they remembered the late Helmut Veith—an outstanding computer scientist who tragically and unexpectedly passed away in 2016. Veith was a strong advocate and mentor for women in computer science, and the VCLA strives to continue this important work in his name.

Vice Rector for Academic Affairs, Ms Jasmin Gründling-Riener, gave a short address before handing over the certificates and congratulating the students. Following the official ceremony, Georg Gottlob provided the audience with insights into the emergence of computer science, and impressively demonstrated why popular search engines and chatbots would benefit from a “logic co-pilot.”

Esther Mugdan, Agata Ciabattoni, Norbert Mauser, Raquel Panadero Palenzuela, Jasmin Gründling-Riener, Tatiana Beliaeva, Georg Gottlob, Ivana Bocevska, Stefan Szeider

Award Ceremony – Program

Welcome from VCLA and WPI

Agata Ciabattoni & Stefan Szeider (VCLA Co-Chairs)

Norbert J. Mauser (WPI Director)

Welcome from TU Wien Rectorate

Jasmin Gründling-Riener (Vice Rector of Academic Affairs)

Presentation of the Stipend Recipients

Tatiana Beliaeva
Esther Mugdan
Ivana Bocevska
Raquel Panadero Palenzuela

Talk: “Computer Science as the Continuation of Logic by other Means”
Georg Gottlob (WPI President c/o U. Calabria & TU Wien)

Drinks and Sandwiches

The Helmut Veith Stipend, which is co-funded by TU Wien and the Wolfgang Pauli Institute, is awarded annually to motivated female students in the field of computer science who pursue (or plan to pursue) one of the master’s programs in Computer Science at TU Wien taught in English.