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class="news__category"> <a href="/category/people/alumni-news/" rel="category tag">Alumni News</a>, <a href="/category/homepagenews/" rel="category tag">Homepage News</a> </div> </div> <div class="news__img-ct"> </div> </header> <div class="news__bd js-readmore-ct"> <div class="news__cnt"> <div class="news__cnt-preview cnt js-readmore-excerpt">MPI-SWS PhD students Michalis Kokologiannakis and Michael Sammler have accepted tenure-track faculty positions at ETH Zurich and the Institute of Science and Technology Austria, respectively.<br> <br> Michalis Kokologiannakis, a doctoral student in the Software Analysis and Verification group, has accepted <a href="https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2023/12/twelve-professors-appointed.html">a tenure-track faculty position at ETH Zurich</a>. Michalis is broadly interested in programming languages, compilers, weak memory models, and software verification. More specifically, he is interested in developing novel algorithmic techniques for verifying concurrent software, ...</div> <div class="news__cnt-full cnt js-readmore-full">MPI-SWS PhD students Michalis Kokologiannakis and Michael Sammler have accepted tenure-track faculty positions at ETH Zurich and the Institute of Science and Technology Austria, respectively.<br> <br> Michalis Kokologiannakis, a doctoral student in the Software Analysis and Verification group, has accepted <a href="https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2023/12/twelve-professors-appointed.html">a tenure-track faculty position at ETH Zurich</a>. Michalis is broadly interested in programming languages, compilers, weak memory models, and software verification. More specifically, he is interested in developing novel algorithmic techniques for verifying concurrent software, while also taking into account the weak memory models employed by modern microprocessors. You can find out more about his work at <a href="https://people.mpi-sws.org/~michalis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://people.mpi-sws.org/~michalis/</a>.<br> <br> Michael Sammler, a doctoral student in the Foundations of Computer Security and Foundations of Programming groups, has accepted a tenure-track faculty position at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA). Before starting at ISTA, he will spend one year as a postdoctoral fellow in the Programming Methodology Group at ETH Zurich. Michael's research interests lie in implementing efficient and practical systems and formally proving properties about them. In particular, his research focuses on building formal verification tools for low-level systems code that combine foundational proofs in a proof assistant with a high degree of automation. You can find out more about his work at <a href="https://people.mpi-sws.org/~msammler/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://people.mpi-sws.org/~msammler/</a> and <a href="https://ista.ac.at/en/research/sammler-group/">https://ista.ac.at/en/research/sammler-group/</a>.<br> <br> Congratulations Michael and Michalis!</div> </div> <a class="btn-readmore js-readmore-btn" data-more="Read more" data-less="Read less" role="button">Read more</a> </div> </div> </article> <article class="news "> <div class="ct"> <div class="page__anchor" id="anne-kathrin-schmuck-joins-mpi-sws-tenure-track-faculty"></div> <header class="news__hd"> <h2 class="news__ttl">Anne-Kathrin Schmuck joins MPI-SWS tenure-track faculty</h2> <div class="news__meta"> <div class="news__date">July 2023</div> <div class="news__category"> <a href="/category/homepagenews/" rel="category tag">Homepage News</a>, <a href="/category/people/new-faculty/" rel="category tag">New faculty</a> </div> </div> <div class="news__img-ct"> <img src="/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/akschmuck_landscape-150x85.jpeg" width="150" height="85" srcset=" /wp-content/uploads/2023/07/akschmuck_landscape-150x85.jpeg 150w, /wp-content/uploads/2023/07/akschmuck_landscape-300x169.jpeg 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2023/07/akschmuck_landscape-600x338.jpeg 600w, /wp-content/uploads/2023/07/akschmuck_landscape-768x433.jpeg 768w, /wp-content/uploads/2023/07/akschmuck_landscape-900x507.jpeg 900w, /wp-content/uploads/2023/07/akschmuck_landscape-1024x577.jpeg 1024w, /wp-content/uploads/2023/07/akschmuck_landscape-1200x676.jpeg 1200w, /wp-content/uploads/2023/07/akschmuck_landscape-1536x866.jpeg 1536w, /wp-content/uploads/2023/07/akschmuck_landscape.jpeg 1817w" title="akschmuck_landscape" sizes="100vw"> </div> </header> <div class="news__bd js-readmore-ct"> <div class="news__cnt"> <div class="news__cnt-preview cnt js-readmore-excerpt">Anne-Kathrin Schmuck has been appointed as new tenure-track faculty as of July 1st, 2023, after leading a prestigious externally funded Emmy-Noether research group hosted at MPI-SWS since 2020. Her group conducts fundamental research at the intersection of control engineering, cybernetics, and computer science to develop reliable and performant control software for cyber-physical systems. In particular, her work addresses the challenge of orchestrating continuous physical components and discrete logical decision making units within these highly automated and safety-critical technological systems. ...</div> <div class="news__cnt-full cnt js-readmore-full"> <span class="il">Anne</span>-Kathrin Schmuck has been appointed as new tenure-track faculty as of July 1st, 2023, after leading a prestigious externally funded Emmy-Noether research group hosted at MPI-SWS since 2020. Her group conducts fundamental research at the intersection of control engineering, cybernetics, and computer science to develop reliable and performant control software for cyber-physical systems. In particular, her work addresses the challenge of orchestrating continuous physical components and discrete logical decision making units within these highly automated and safety-critical technological systems.<br> <br> <span class="il">Anne</span> has been part of the MPI-SWS faculty as an independent research group leader since 2020. She holds a Dipl.-Ing. (M.Sc.) degree in engineering cybernetics from OvGU Magdeburg, Germany and a Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D.) degree in electrical engineering from TU Berlin, Germany. She joined MPI-SWS as a postdoctoral researcher in the area of formal methods in 2015.</div> </div> <a class="btn-readmore js-readmore-btn" data-more="Read more" data-less="Read less" role="button">Read more</a> </div> </div> </article> <article class="news "> <div class="ct"> <div class="page__anchor" id="mpi-sws-alumnus-pramod-bhatotia-receives-eurosys-jochen-liedtke-young-researcher-award"></div> <header class="news__hd"> <h2 class="news__ttl">MPI-SWS alumnus Pramod Bhatotia receives EuroSys Jochen Liedtke Young Researcher Award</h2> <div class="news__meta"> <div class="news__date">May 2023</div> <div class="news__category"> <a href="/category/people/alumni-news/" rel="category tag">Alumni News</a>, <a href="/category/prize/career-award/" rel="category tag">Career award</a>, <a href="/category/homepagenews/" rel="category tag">Homepage News</a> </div> </div> <div class="news__img-ct"> </div> </header> <div class="news__bd js-readmore-ct"> <div class="news__cnt"> <div class="news__cnt-preview cnt js-readmore-excerpt">Pramod Bhatotia, who completed his doctoral studies at MPI-SWS, has received the 2023 EuroSys Jochen Liedtke Young Researcher Award.<br> <br> The <a href="https://www.eurosys.org/awards/jochen-liedtke-young-researcher-award">EuroSys Jochen Liedtke Young Researcher Award</a> was created in 2014 by ACM EuroSys to reward junior European researchers who have demonstrated exceptional creativity and innovation in systems research, broadly construed. The award is given annually at the EuroSys conference, in memory of Jochen and his fundamental contributions to the systems community. The award is accompanied by a 2,000 EUR cash prize generously provided by RedHat. ...</div> <div class="news__cnt-full cnt js-readmore-full">Pramod Bhatotia, who completed his doctoral studies at MPI-SWS, has received the 2023 EuroSys Jochen Liedtke Young Researcher Award.<br> <br> The <a href="https://www.eurosys.org/awards/jochen-liedtke-young-researcher-award">EuroSys Jochen Liedtke Young Researcher Award</a> was created in 2014 by ACM EuroSys to reward junior European researchers who have demonstrated exceptional creativity and innovation in systems research, broadly construed. The award is given annually at the EuroSys conference, in memory of Jochen and his fundamental contributions to the systems community. The award is accompanied by a 2,000 EUR cash prize generously provided by RedHat.<br> <br> Congratulations, Pramod!</div> </div> <a class="btn-readmore js-readmore-btn" data-more="Read more" data-less="Read less" role="button">Read more</a> </div> </div> </article> <article class="news "> <div class="ct"> <div class="page__anchor" id="mpi-sws-researchers-receive-alonzo-church-award"></div> <header class="news__hd"> <h2 class="news__ttl">MPI-SWS researchers receive the 2023 Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation</h2> <div class="news__meta"> <div class="news__date">May 2023</div> <div class="news__category"> <a href="/category/homepagenews/" rel="category tag">Homepage News</a>, <a href="/category/prize/test-of-time-award/" rel="category tag">Test-of-Time Award</a> </div> </div> <div class="news__img-ct"> <img src="/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/news-alonzo-church-award-2-150x40.png" width="150" height="40" srcset=" /wp-content/uploads/2023/05/news-alonzo-church-award-2-150x40.png 150w, /wp-content/uploads/2023/05/news-alonzo-church-award-2-300x80.png 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2023/05/news-alonzo-church-award-2.png 543w" title="news-alonzo-church-award-2" sizes="100vw"> </div> </header> <div class="news__bd js-readmore-ct"> <div class="news__cnt"> <div class="news__cnt-preview cnt js-readmore-excerpt">MPI-SWS faculty member Derek Dreyer and nine of his collaborators (including notably UdS/MPI alumnus Ralf Jung, as well as former MPI-SWS postdocs Jacques-Henri Jourdan and Aaron Turon and UdS/MPI student David Swasey) have received the 2023 Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation for their seminal work on the Iris framework for higher-order concurrent separation logic, specifically the following four papers:<ul><li>Ralf Jung, David Swasey, Filip Sieczkowski, Kasper Svendsen, Aaron Turon,</li></ul> ...</div> <div class="news__cnt-full cnt js-readmore-full">MPI-SWS faculty member Derek Dreyer and nine of his collaborators (including notably UdS/MPI alumnus Ralf Jung, as well as former MPI-SWS postdocs Jacques-Henri Jourdan and Aaron Turon and UdS/MPI student David Swasey) have received the 2023 Alonzo Church <span class="il">Award</span> for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation for their seminal work on the <span class="il">Iris</span> framework for higher-order concurrent separation logic, specifically the following four papers:<ul> <li>Ralf Jung, David Swasey, Filip Sieczkowski, Kasper Svendsen, Aaron Turon, Lars Birkedal, Derek Dreyer: <a href="https://iris-project.org/pdfs/2015-popl-iris1-final.pdf">“Iris: Monoids and Invariants as an Orthogonal Basis for Concurrent Reasoning”</a>. POPL 2015.</li> <li>Ralf Jung, Robbert Krebbers, Lars Birkedal, Derek Dreyer: <a href="https://iris-project.org/pdfs/2016-icfp-iris2-final.pdf">“Higher-order ghost state”</a>. ICFP 2016.</li> <li>Robbert Krebbers, Ralf Jung, Aleš Bizjak, Jacques-Henri Jourdan, Derek Dreyer, Lars Birkedal: <a href="https://iris-project.org/pdfs/2017-esop-iris3-final.pdf">“The Essence of Higher-Order Concurrent Separation Logic”</a>. ESOP 2017.</li> <li>Ralf Jung, Robbert Krebbers, Jacques-Henri Jourdan, Aleš Bizjak, Lars Birkedal, Derek Dreyer: “<a href="https://www.mpi-sws.org/~dreyer/papers/iris-ground-up/paper.pdf">Iris from the ground up: A modular foundation for higher-order concurrent separation logic</a>”. J. Funct. Program. 28 (2018).</li> <br> </ul>The Church Award has been given out since 2016, and has typically been given to papers that were 20-25 years old (to allow time for foundational work on logic to have major impact). In this case, however, the four awarded Iris papers were published only 5-8 years ago! In that relatively short period of time, Iris has served as a springboard for a huge amount of research in semantics and program verification, including over 70 papers in top venues (see <a href="https://iris-project.org/">the Iris project page</a>), and it has been adopted as a core verification technology by a multitude of research groups around the world, as well as the systems verification company BedRock Systems.<br> <br> More details about <a href="https://eatcs.org/index.php/church-award">the Alonzo Church Award</a> and about the <a href="https://www.eatcs.org/index.php/component/content/article/1-news/2943-2023-alonzo-church-award-for-outstanding-contributions-to-logic-and-computation">2023 Church Award</a>.</div> </div> <a class="btn-readmore js-readmore-btn" data-more="Read more" data-less="Read less" role="button">Read more</a> </div> </div> </article> <article class="news "> <div class="ct"> <div class="page__anchor" id="kaushik-mallik-awarded-2023-etaps-doctoral-dissertation-award"></div> <header class="news__hd"> <h2 class="news__ttl">Kaushik Mallik awarded ETAPS Doctoral Dissertation Award</h2> <div class="news__meta"> <div class="news__date">April 2023</div> <div class="news__category"> <a href="/category/prize/dissertation-award/" rel="category tag">Dissertation Award</a>, <a href="/category/homepagenews/" rel="category tag">Homepage News</a> </div> </div> <div class="news__img-ct"> </div> </header> <div class="news__bd js-readmore-ct"> <div class="news__cnt"> <div class="news__cnt-preview cnt js-readmore-excerpt">Kaushik Mallik's thesis, entitled <a href="https://kluedo.ub.rptu.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/6866"><em>Pushing the Barriers in Controller Synthesis for Cyber-Physical Systems</em></a>, has been recognized with the 2023 ETAPS Doctoral Dissertation Award. The <a href="https://etaps.org/awards/doctoral-dissertation/">award</a> is given to the PhD student who has made the most original and influential contribution to the research areas in the scope of the ETAPS conferences, and has graduated at a European academic institution. Kaushik was advised by MPI-SWS faculty member <a href="https://people.mpi-sws.org/~rupak/">Rupak Majumdar</a>. ...</div> <div class="news__cnt-full cnt js-readmore-full">Kaushik Mallik's thesis, entitled <a href="https://kluedo.ub.rptu.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/6866"><em>Pushing the Barriers in Controller Synthesis for Cyber-Physical Systems</em></a>, has been recognized with the 2023 ETAPS Doctoral Dissertation Award. The <a href="https://etaps.org/awards/doctoral-dissertation/">award</a> is given to the PhD student who has made the most original and influential contribution to the research areas in the scope of the ETAPS conferences, and has graduated at a European academic institution. Kaushik was advised by MPI-SWS faculty member <a href="https://people.mpi-sws.org/~rupak/">Rupak Majumdar</a>.<br> <br> This is the second time that the ETAPS Doctoral Dissertation Award was given to an MPI-SWS student. In 2021 it was awarded to Ralf Jung for his thesis on <em>Understanding and Evolving the Rust Programming Language</em>, supervised by Derek Dreyer.</div> </div> <a class="btn-readmore js-readmore-btn" data-more="Read more" data-less="Read less" role="button">Read more</a> </div> </div> </article> </div> </main> </div> <footer class="page__ft"> <div class="ct"> <div class="page__ft-qr"> <img class="page__ft-qr-img" src="/wp-content/themes/mpi-sws/assets/images/mpi-sws-qrcode.png"> </div> <div class="page__ft-menu"> <ul id="menu-footer-menu" class="footer__menu menu"> <li id="menu-item-6131" class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-6131 footer__menu-itm menu__itm"><a href="https://imprint.mpi-klsb.mpg.de/sws/www.mpi-sws.org" class="footer__menu-lnk menu__lnk">Imprint</a></li> <li id="menu-item-6132" class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-6132 footer__menu-itm menu__itm"><a href="https://data-protection.mpi-klsb.mpg.de/sws/www.mpi-sws.org" class="footer__menu-lnk menu__lnk">Data Protection</a></li> <li id="menu-item-4087" class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-4087 footer__menu-itm menu__itm"><a href="/about-us/#contact" class="footer__menu-lnk menu__lnk">Contact</a></li> </ul> </div> <!--<div title="Follow CMMRS on Linkedin"><img src="/assets/images/LI-In-Bug.png" width="21"></div> --> <div class="page__ft-contact-copy-ct"> <div class="page__ft-webmaster"> <a href="mailto:webmaster-sws@mpi-sws.org">webmaster-sws@mpi-sws.org</a> </div> <div class="page__ft-copy"> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/max-planck-institute-for-software-systems/"><div title="Follow MPI-SWS on Linkedin"><img style="width:10%" src="/wp-content/themes/mpi-sws/assets/images/LI-In-Bug.png"></div></a> © Copyright by Max Planck Institute for Software Systems 2025. 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