MPI-SWS faculty member Derek Dreyer has received the Most Influential ICFP Paper Award for the 2016 paper "Higher-Order Ghost State," co-authored with MPI-SWS alumnus Ralf Jung as well as Robert Krebbers and Lars Birkedal. The award recognises the paper’s lasting impact on the Iris program logic framework, which has become…
MPI-SWS Scientific Director Rupak Majumdar has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant worth approximately €2.5 million for his project „Pascal: Formal Performance Analysis at Scale“. The project aims to develop new mathematical foundations and practical tools for analyzing and verifying the performance and resilience of large-scale distributed computer systems. Whether…
The ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN) has awarded their 2026 Distinguished Service Award to MPI-SWS Scientific Director Derek Dreyer. The award citation reads as follows: Derek Dreyer has set an exemplary standard of service within the PL community. Throughout the years, Derek has served in almost every…
MPI-SWS researchers Travis Hance, Laila Elbeheiry, and Derek Dreyer--along with their collaborator Yusuke Matsushita--have received a PLDI 2026 Distinguished Paper Award for their paper "VerusBelt: A Semantic Foundation for Verus’s Proof-Oriented Extensions to the Rust Type System." At PLDI this year, only 10 papers were given this award out of…
MPI-SWS researchers Tung Phung and Adish Singla, jointly with colleagues from the University of Michigan, the University of Minnesota and Microsoft, have received a Best Paper Award at the 57th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE TS 2026), for their paper titled Closing the Loop: An Instructor-in-the-Loop AI Assistance System for Supporting…
