News 2021

Max Planck researchers publish 11 papers at POPL 2022!

Researchers from MPI-SWS have authored a total of 11 papers accepted to POPL 2022 (just under 17% of all accepted papers).  This is the fifth year in a row that MPI-SWS researchers have published 5+ papers in POPL.  Furthermore, two Max Planck papers were awarded a 2022 POPL Distinguished Paper Award. Congratulations to all our POPL authors!
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Researchers from MPI-SWS have authored a total of 11 papers accepted to POPL 2022 (just under 17% of all accepted papers).  This is the fifth year in a row that MPI-SWS researchers have published 5+ papers in POPL.  Furthermore, two Max Planck papers were awarded a 2022 POPL Distinguished Paper Award. Congratulations to all our POPL authors!
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Tenure-track Openings at Max Planck Institutes in Computer Science

November 2021
The Max Planck Institutes for Informatics (Saarbruecken), Software Systems (Saarbruecken and Kaiserslautern), and Security and Privacy (Bochum) invite applications for tenure-track faculty in all areas of computer science. We expect to fill several positions.

A doctoral degree in computer science or related areas and an outstanding research record are required. Successful candidates are expected to build a team and pursue a highly visible research agenda, both independently and in collaboration with other groups.

The institutes are part of a network of over 80 Max Planck Institutes, ...
The Max Planck Institutes for Informatics (Saarbruecken), Software Systems (Saarbruecken and Kaiserslautern), and Security and Privacy (Bochum) invite applications for tenure-track faculty in all areas of computer science. We expect to fill several positions.

A doctoral degree in computer science or related areas and an outstanding research record are required. Successful candidates are expected to build a team and pursue a highly visible research agenda, both independently and in collaboration with other groups.

The institutes are part of a network of over 80 Max Planck Institutes, Germany's premier basic-research organisations. MPIs have an established record of world-class, foundational research in the sciences, technology, and the humanities. The institutes offer a unique environment that combines the best aspects of a university department and a research laboratory: Faculty enjoy full academic freedom, lead a team of doctoral students and postdocs, and have the opportunity to teach university courses; at the same time, they enjoy ongoing institutional funding in addition to third-party funds, a technical infrastructure unrivaled for an academic institution, as well as internationally competitive compensation.

We maintain an international and diverse work environment and seek applications from outstanding researchers worldwide. The working language is English; knowledge of the German language is not required for a successful career at the institutes.

Qualified candidates should apply on our application website (apply.cis.mpg.de). Review of applications will begin by December 1st, 2021.

The Max Planck Society wishes to increase the number of women in those areas where they are underrepresented. Women are therefore explicitly encouraged to apply. The Max Planck Society is also committed to increasing the number of employees with severe disabilities in its workforce. Applications from persons with severe disabilities are expressly desired.

The initial tenure-track appointment is for five years; it can be extended to seven years based on a positive midterm evaluation in the fourth year. A permanent contract can be awarded upon a successful tenure evaluation in the sixth year.
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Antoine Kaufman joins MPI-SWS tenure-track faculty

October 2021
Antoine Kaufmann has joined the tenure-track faculty at our institute, effective October 1, 2021.  He has been a member of our faculty as a research group leader since joining MPI-SWS in August 2018.  Antoine's research centers on the interplay of software and hardware in modern systems.  He is interested in the nascent challenges in designing, implementing, and maintaining hardware-software systems for different application domains, starting with data center networking and machine learning.

Prior to joining MPI-SWS,  ...
Antoine Kaufmann has joined the tenure-track faculty at our institute, effective October 1, 2021.  He has been a member of our faculty as a research group leader since joining MPI-SWS in August 2018.  Antoine's research centers on the interplay of software and hardware in modern systems.  He is interested in the nascent challenges in designing, implementing, and maintaining hardware-software systems for different application domains, starting with data center networking and machine learning.

Prior to joining MPI-SWS, Antoine received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington, and his Master's and Bachelor's degrees from ETH Zurich.
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MPI-SWS students receive ACM SIGPLAN Dissertation Award two years in a row

Ralf Jung's thesis, entitled Understanding and Evolving the Rust Programming Language, has been recognized with the 2021 ACM SIGPLAN John C. Reynolds Doctoral Dissertation Award. (The award this year was shared with Gagandeep Singh, a doctoral student at ETH Zurich). Ralf was advised by MPI-SWS faculty member Derek Dreyer.

This is the second year in a row that the ACM SIGPLAN Dissertation Award was given to an MPI-SWS student. ...
Ralf Jung's thesis, entitled Understanding and Evolving the Rust Programming Language, has been recognized with the 2021 ACM SIGPLAN John C. Reynolds Doctoral Dissertation Award. (The award this year was shared with Gagandeep Singh, a doctoral student at ETH Zurich). Ralf was advised by MPI-SWS faculty member Derek Dreyer.

This is the second year in a row that the ACM SIGPLAN Dissertation Award was given to an MPI-SWS student. Last year it was awarded to Filip Niksic for his thesis on Combinatorial Constructions for Effective Testing, supervised by Rupak Majumdar.

The award, first given in 2001, recognizes outstanding doctoral dissertations in the area of Programming Languages.
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Ralf Jung receives ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention

Ralf Jung's doctoral dissertation on "Understanding and Evolving the Rust Programming Language" has received the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention. The ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award is considered to be one of the most prestigious international dissertation awards in the area of computer science, and there are only two Honorable Mentions given for the award each year. The Honorable Mention Award comes with a prize of $10,000 and an invitation to accept the award at the annual ACM Awards Banquet in San Francisco. ...
Ralf Jung's doctoral dissertation on "Understanding and Evolving the Rust Programming Language" has received the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention. The ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award is considered to be one of the most prestigious international dissertation awards in the area of computer science, and there are only two Honorable Mentions given for the award each year. The Honorable Mention Award comes with a prize of $10,000 and an invitation to accept the award at the annual ACM Awards Banquet in San Francisco.

Ralf's work has previously received the ETAPS Doctoral Dissertation Award and the Otto Hahn Medal, as well as being featured in the April 2021 issue of Communications of the ACM in an article entitled "Safe Systems Programming in Rust". For more details see the Saarland Informatics Campus press release.
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Arpan Gujarati receives 2021 ACM SIGBED Paul Caspi Memorial Dissertation Award

Arpan Gujarati's thesis, entitled  Towards “Ultra-Reliable" CPS: Reliability Analysis of Distributed Real-Time Systems, has been recognized with the 2021 ACM SIGBED Paul Caspi Memorial Dissertation Award. The award, first given in 2013, recognizes outstanding doctoral dissertations that significantly advance the state of the art in the science of embedded systems, in the spirit and legacy of Dr. Paul Caspi’s work. Arpan was advised by MPI-SWS faculty member Björn Brandenburg.

Otto Hahn Medal awarded to two MPI-SWS students

Ralf Jung and Bilal Zafar have each been awarded a 2021 Otto Hahn Medal for outstanding scientific achievement. The Max Planck Society awards the Otto Hahn Medal annually to young scientists in recognition of outstanding scientific achievement. Ralf was awarded the medal for his work on the first formal foundations for the cutting-edge systems programming language Rust, while Bilal was awarded the medal for his work on developing responsible and trustworthy AI systems that can help reduce discrimination and polarisation in society. ...
Ralf Jung and Bilal Zafar have each been awarded a 2021 Otto Hahn Medal for outstanding scientific achievement. The Max Planck Society awards the Otto Hahn Medal annually to young scientists in recognition of outstanding scientific achievement. Ralf was awarded the medal for his work on the first formal foundations for the cutting-edge systems programming language Rust, while Bilal was awarded the medal for his work on developing responsible and trustworthy AI systems that can help reduce discrimination and polarisation in society. Ralf obtained his PhD in August 2020, and was advised by Derek Dreyer. Ralf is now a postdoc at MPI-SWS and research affiliate at MIT. Bilal obtained his PhD in February 2019, and was advised by Krishna Gummadi and Manuel Gomez Rodriguez. Bilal is now an Applied Scientist at Amazon Web Services.
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Girls' Day 2021

April 2021
MPI-SWS participated jointly with the MPI for Informatics in the annual Girls' Day event on April 22, 2021. Our interactive digital program
included  programming robots and integrating machine learning models into dialog systems, as well as answering questions about computer
science and the work as a computer scientist.

ETAPS dissertation award and CACM article for Ralf Jung and his work on Rust

Ralf Jung's doctoral dissertation on "Understanding and Evolving the Rust Programming Language" has received the ETAPS Doctoral Dissertation Award for 2021. The award 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 in 2021 at a European academic institution. Ralf was advised by MPI-SWS faculty member Derek Dreyer.

A committee of international experts evaluated candidate dissertations with respect to originality, ...
Ralf Jung's doctoral dissertation on "Understanding and Evolving the Rust Programming Language" has received the ETAPS Doctoral Dissertation Award for 2021. The award 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 in 2021 at a European academic institution. Ralf was advised by MPI-SWS faculty member Derek Dreyer.

A committee of international experts evaluated candidate dissertations with respect to originality, relevance, and impact to the field, as well as the quality of writing. The committee found that Dr. Ralf Jung's dissertation is very well-written and makes several highly original contributions in the area of programming language semantics and verification. The committee was also particularly impressed by the dissertation for its technical depth, the quality and quantity of the associated published work, as well as its relevance and impact both in academia and industry.

Ralf's work on Rust was also featured in a recent Communications of the ACM article: Safe Systems Programming in Rust by Ralf Jung, Jacques-Henri Jourdan, Robbert Krebbers, and Derek Dreyer. The article appeared in the April 2021 issue of CACM, together with a short video about this work produced by ACM.

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Max Planck researchers publish 8 papers at POPL 2021!

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) and the new Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP) have authored a total of 8 papers accepted to POPL 2021 (over 10% of all accepted papers).  This is the fourth year in a row that MPI-SWS researchers have published 5+ papers in POPL.  Furthermore, two Max Planck papers were awarded a Distinguished Paper Award. Congratulations to all our POPL authors! ...
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) and the new Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP) have authored a total of 8 papers accepted to POPL 2021 (over 10% of all accepted papers).  This is the fourth year in a row that MPI-SWS researchers have published 5+ papers in POPL.  Furthermore, two Max Planck papers were awarded a Distinguished Paper Award. Congratulations to all our POPL authors!

MPI-SWS papers:

MPI-SP papers:
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