EAPLS Best PhD Dissertation Award
Call for Nominations
The European Association for Programming Languages and Systems has established a Best PhD Dissertation Award in the international research area of programming languages and systems. The award will go to the PhD student who in the previous period has made the most original and influential contribution to the area. The purpose of the award is to draw attention to excellent work, to help the career of the student in question, and to promote the research field as a whole.Eligibility
Eligible for the award are those who successfully defended their PhD- at an academic institution in Europe
- in the field of Programming Languages and Systems
- in the period from 1 January 2021 - 31 December 2021
Nominations
Candidates for the award must be nominated by their supervisor. Nominating a candidate consists of submitting the nomination via EasyChair. The nomination must consist of a single PDF file containing
- a letter from the supervisor describing why the thesis should be considered for the award;
- a report from an independent researcher who has acted as examiner of the thesis at its defense; and
- the thesis itself.
The nominated theses will be evaluated with respect to originality and significance to the field, and (to a lesser degree) quality of writing. Where the thesis consists of a collection of papers, in assessing the quality of writing careful consideration will be given to the introduction and overall conclusion chapters of the thesis, as well as the quality of the individual papers and their consistent use of notation, concepts, etc.
Questions can be directed to the PhD award chairs, Maribel Fernandez and Andreas Wortmann, at [email protected].
Procedure
The nominations will be evaluated and compared by an international committee of experts. The letter from the supervisor and the external report will play an important role in the evaluation. The final decision is made by the EAPLS board, based on the recommendation of the expert committee. Members of the expert committee and the EAPLS board are barred from nominating their own PhD students for the award.The award consists of a certificate announcing the winner of the EAPLS PhD dissertation award 2021 and the supervisor will receive a copy of this certificate. If possible, the certificate will be handed out ceremonially at a suitable occasion, for instance at the ETAPS conference. In addition, the winner will be invited to submit a short video summarising the thesis work, which will be made available via the EAPLS website.
Apart from the winner, no further ranking of nominees will be published. The decision of the expert committee is final and binding, and will not be subject to discussion.
Important Dates
- 30 August 2022: Deadline for nominations
- 1 December 2022: Announcement of the award winner
Expert Committee
The decision on the award is taken by an expert committee, consisting of leading researchers in programming languages and systems. The committee currently consists of:- Eerke Boiten (De Montfort University, UK)
- Stefano Crespi Reghizzi (Politecnico di Milano, IT)
- Kei Davis (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
- Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini (Dipartimento di InformaticaUniversità di Torino, IT)
- Santiago Escobar (Universitat Politècnica de València, ES)
- Maurizio Gabbrielli (University of Bologna, IT)
- Sabine Glesner (TU Berlin, DE)
- Stefan Gruner (University of Pretoria, SA)
- Christoph Kirsch (University of Salzburg, AT)
- Jens Knoop (TU Vienna, AT)
- Greg Michaelson (Heriot-Watt University, UK)
- François Pottier (INRIA, FR)
- Matteo Pradella (Politecnico di Milano, IT)
- Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg, AT)
Organizers
- Maribel Fernandez, King's College London, UK (co-chair)
- Andreas Wortmann, University of Stuttgart, Germany (co-chair)
Past Best Dissertation Awards
- 2021 EAPLS Best Dissertation Award
Mechanising and evolving the formal semantics of WebAssembly: the Web's new low-level language
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- 2020 EAPLS Best Dissertation Award
Amir Kafshdar Goharshad, Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Parameterized and Algebro-geometric Advances in Static Program Analysis
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- 2019 EAPLS Best Dissertation Award
Martin Bromberger, Saarland University
Decision Procedures for Linear Arithmetic
Read more about the motivation for this award. - 2018 EAPLS Best Dissertation Award
Christian Hensel, RWTH Aachen University
The Probabilistic Model Checker Storm - Symbolic Methods for Probabilistic Model Checking
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- 2016/17 EAPLS Best Dissertation Award
Jesper Cockx, KU Leuven
Dependent Pattern Matching and Proof-Relevant Unification
Read more about the motivation for this award. - 2015 EAPLS Best Dissertation Award
Maria Christakis, ETH Zürich
Narrowing the gap between verification and systematic testing
Read more about the motivation for this award. - 2014 EAPLS Best Dissertation Award
Fabrizio Montesi, IT University of Copenhagen
Choreographic Programming
Read more about the motivation for this award. - 2013 EAPLS Best Dissertation Award
Zhiwu Xu, Université Paris Diderot
Parametric Polymorphism for XML Processing Languages
Read more about the motivation for this award. - 2012 EAPLS Best Dissertation Award
Delphine Demange, ENS Cachan - Brittany Extension and the Celtique team at IRISA / INRIA Rennes
Semantic Foundations of Intermediate Program Representations
Read more about the motivation for this award. - 2011 EAPLS Best Dissertation Award
Santiago Zanella Béguelin, École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris
Formal Certification of Game-Based Cryptographic Proofs
Read more about the motivation for this award. - 2010 EAPLS Best Dissertation Award
Alexey Gotsman, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
Logics and analyses for concurrent heap-manipulating programs
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