Mahmoud Salamati and Rupak Majumdar have received the Best Paper Award at the 15th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems (QEST 2018) for their paper entitled “Approximate Time Bounded Reachability for CTMCs
and CTMDPs: A Lyapunov Approach” (with Sadegh Soudjani from Newcastle University).

MPI-SWS researcher Mitra Nasri will join TU Delft as an assistant professor starting October 1, 2018. Congratulations, Mitra!

Felipe Cerqueira and Björn Brandenburg have received an Outstanding Paper Award at the 30th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2018) for their paper entitled “On Strong and Weak Sustainability, with an Application to Self-Suspending Real-Time Tasks” (with Geoffrey Nelissen of CISTER Research Centre, ISEP, Polytechnic Institute of Porto).

MPI-SWS graduate student Arpan Gujarati has won the Best Presentation Award at the 30th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS18) for a talk on his paper entitled "Quantifying the Resiliency of Fail-Operational Real-Time Networked Control Systems" (with Mitra Nasri and Björn Brandenburg). Congratulations, Arpan!

Björn Brandenburg has won an Outstanding Paper award at the 24th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS 2018) for his paper entitled “Scalable Memory Reclamation for Multi-Core, Real-Time Systems” (with Yuxin Ren, Guyue Liu, and Gabriel Parmer of George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA).

MPI-SWS faculty member Björn Brandenburg has received the first ever SIGBED Early Career Researcher Award. The award is given by ACM SIGBED to recognize outstanding contributions by young investigators in the area of embedded, real-time, and cyber-physical systems.