Computer Science

Awards and Honors

Academic Recognitions

  • Prof. Gerhard Widmer received the Falling Walls Science Breakthrough Award 2021.
  • Prof. Sepp Hochreiter received the "IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award (2021)" from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society for his pioneering contributions in the field of machine learning.
  • Prof. Robert Wille received the ERC Consolidator Grant of the European Research Council (2020)
  • Prof. Hanspeter Mössenböck was appointed as a Honorary Senator of TU Graz.
  • Prof. Alois Ferscha won the 2018 Future Award
  • Prof. Sepp Hochreiter has been elected as the Top Austrian Researcher 2018.
  • Prof. Gabriele Anderst-Kotsis has been recognized by ACM as Distinguished Scientist for her contributions and impacts in the field of computing (2014)
  • Prof. Gerhard Widmer and Prof. Jürgen Knoblich received theWittgenstein Prize, which is the highest academic recognition in Austria (2009).
  • Dr. Roberto Lopez Herrejon was named Marie Currie Fellow and awarded the EU Inter-European Fellowship grant
  • Prof. Alexander Egyed was named Visiting Professor at the University College London (UCL), one of the world leading universities.
  • Prof. Gerhard Widmer was elected into the "Junge Kurie" of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2008).
  • Prof. Alexander Egyed was ranked 10th Best Scholar in Software Engineering by Ren/Taylor [1] (2007).
  • Prof. Hanspeter Mössenböck received a honorary doctorate as well as a honorary professorship from the Eötvös Lorand University Budapest (2006).
  • Prof. Gerhard Widmer is named an ECCAI Fellow by the European Coordinating Committee on Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) (2006).

Research Awards

  • Dr. Daniela Kaufmann won the dissertation award 2021 from the German Gesellschaft für Informatik.
  • Prof. Robert Wille got awarded (together with M. Walter, F.S. Torres, D. Große and R. Drechsler) with an Research Demo Award presented at the IEEE computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI) 2019.
  • Prof. Robert Wille got awarded with an Under-40 Innovators Award from the Design Automation Conference 2019.
  • Prof. Robert Wille and his team won the IBM QISKit Developer Challenge 2018.
  • Prof. Robert Wille and his team received a Google Research Award for their work on simulation of quantum computations 2018.
  • Alexander Melzer and Prof. Mario Huemer received the Landespreis für Innovation 2017.
  • Alexander Melzer and Prof. Mario Huemer received the German ITG Award 2016.
  • Alexander Melzer and Prof. Mario Huemer received the 3rd price at the Johann Puch Automotive Awards 2016.
  • Prof. Gerhard Widmer receives an ERC Advanced Grant for his project Con Espressione (2015).
  • Christoph Unterrieder and Prof. Mario Huemer were nominated for the Houska award (2014).
  • Prof. Alois Ferscha and his team won theInnovation Award (2011).
  • The expressive performance rendering system YQX 0.2 from the Institute for Computational Perception won the Rencon Musical Performance Rendering Competition for Computer Systems (2011).
  • The multimedia arts project sound/tracks (Inst. for Computational Perception) is selected as one of the "Jury Recommended Works" and is exhibited at the 14th Japan Media Arts Festival, The National Arts Center, Tokyo (Feb. 2011).
  • The Institut for Pervasive Computing received the Cross Border Award (2009).
  • Prof. Alois Ferscha and his team won theInnovation Award (2009)
  • Prof. Oliver Bimber (in cooperation with D. Iwai, Osaka University) won the iENA Gold Medal for "Superimposing Dynamic Range" at the 60th International Trade Fare Ideas-Inventions-Products (iENA), Nuremberg, Germany (2008).
  • The expressive performance rendering system YQX (Inst. for Computational Perception) wins the Rencon Award, the Rencon Technical Award, and the Rencon Murao Award, at the 7th Contest for Performance Rendering Systems (Rencon'08), Sapporo, Japan (Aug. 2008).

Achievement Awards

  • The institute Integriert Studieren was awarded as one of 40 Innovative Practices from around the world related to persons with disabilities and employment.
  • Prof. Klaus Miesenberger received the Harry Murphy Catalyst Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2011).
  • Prof. Roland Wagner received the Silver Medal of the Upper Austrian Government (2011).
  • Prof Klaus Miesenberger received the Fred Strache Leadership Award acknowledging exceptional leadership in der field of disability and technology, California State University Northridge (2010).
  • Prof. Roland Wagner was awarded with the "Humanity Medal" of the Upper Austrian Government (2003).
  • Prof. Roland Wagner received the "Madeili CBUT I. Stupne" of the Technical University Prague (2002).
  • Prof. Roland Wagner "Roland Wagner Award 0" of the Austrian Computer Society for his lifetime work on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (2002) .

Rankings

  • Microsoft Academic Search ranks the JKU among the Top 50 Research Institutions in Software Engineering. This ranking is adjusted weekly. Noteworthy is that the JKU shares its Microsoft "Field Rating" with such esteemed institutions such as MIT, Stanford, or ETH Zürich.
  • FORMAT (Jan 20, 2014): JKU Master's program in Software Engineering ranked the Best Computer Science Program in Austria and the Top 3 Austrian Engineering programs (see article and table; in German)

Industrial Recognitions

  • Prof. Alexander Egyed was named IBM Research Faculty Fellow by IBM Rational, Canada.
  • The Christian Doppler Laboratory for Automated Software Engineering and its partner BMD Systemhaus won the Rudolf Trauner Award for SMEs (2007).

Service Awards

  • Prof. Gabriele Kotsis received the @WAS Decennial Award in recognition of her outstanding scientific, didactic and organisational contributions to the @WAS organisation and iiWAS and MoMM conferences series in 2009.
  • Prof. Alexander Egyed received the ACM Recognition of Service Award (2007) for serving as Program Chair of the 22nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering.
  • Prof. Paul Grünbacher received the ACM Recognition of Service Award (2004) for serving as General Chair of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering.

Best Paper Awards

Student Awards

  • Raphael Mosaner (Institute for System Software) won the 1 place in the Student Research Competition (graduate category) at SPLASH 2020 (November 2020)
  • Sibylle Möhle-Rotondi (LIT Secure and Correct Systems Lab) got awarded with the Best Student Contribution Award for her work on "(Dual) Projected Propositional Model Counting and Enumeration without Repetition" (FMCAD 2020, Haifa, Israel)
  • Stefan Hillmich (Institute for Integrated Circuits) has been awarded with the Best Poster Award for the Young Student Fellow Program presentation "Decision Diagrams for Quantum Computing" at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) on July 24, 2020.
  • Alwin Zulehner (Institute for Computer Architecture) has been awarded with the EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award given by the European Design and Automation Association, April 2020 (see corresponding press release in German).
  • Philipp Schwarz (1st place) and Daniel Hofer (3rd place) (both LIT Secure and Correct Systems Lab) got awarded with the Adolf-Adam-Informatikpreis, December 19, 2019
  • Andreas Grimmer (Institute for Integrated Circuits)  has been awarded with the Award of Excellence from the Austrian Ministry of Education for the dissertation “Designing Droplet Microfluidic Networks: A Toolbox for Designers”on November 12, 2019, see corresponding press release.
  • Stefan Hillmich (Institute for Integrated Circuits) participated at the ACM Student Research Competition at ICCAD. He received the first prize for his contribution, November 4, 2019.
  •  Andreas Grimmer (Institute for Integrated Circuits) has been awarded with a "KlarText Preis" for describing his work on microfluidics to a broader audience, October 2019. See the full article on this page and access a corresponding promo-video on this page.
  • Hartwig Bauer, Lukas Burgholzer and Stefan Hillmich (Institute for Integrated Circuits) were among the top 3 in IBM´s IBM Quantum Challenge,  October 2019 (also see this news in German).
  •  Andreas Grimmer (Institute for Integrated Circuits) and Alwin Zulehner (Institute for Computer Architecture) got awarded with a JKU Early Research Achievement Award on September 12, 2019.
  •  Daniel Huber (LIT Secure and Correct Systems Lab) got awarded with a JKU Early Research Achievement Award for his work on "The generation of highly entangled photons using semiconductor quantum dots", September 12, 2019.
  • Alwin Zulehner (Institute for Computer Architecture) got awarded with a Best Poster Award  for his work on “Computer Aided Design for Quantum Computing” at the DAC PhD Forum on June 5, 2019 in Las Vegas, USA (also see this news in German).
  • Andreas Grimmer (Institute for Integrated Circuits) got awarded with a Best Poster Award for his work on "Automatic Methods for the Design of Droplet Microfluidics" at the DATE PhD Forum on March 25, 2019 in Florenz, Italy (also see this news in German).
  • Alwin Zulehner (Institute for Computer Architecture) got awarded with a Student Research Award for his work on "Computer Aided Design for Quantum Computing" at the ASP-DAC Student Research Forum on January 22, 2019 in Tokyo, Japan (also see this news in German).
  • Berislav Klepic (Institute for Integrated Circuits) got awarded with a "UBIT Award 2018" from the Wirtschaftskammer Oberösterreich (WKOÖ) for his Master thesis entitled "Automation of Design-Tasks for Programmable Microfluidic Devices" on September 7, 2018.
  • Andreas Grimmer has been awarded with the OCG Incentive Award on June 21, 2017.
  • Emre Zaim (Institute for Telecooperation) won the Adolf Adam Award for the best Master's thesis in 2017.
  • David Leopoldseder won the SPLASH 2017 Student Research Competition in the Graduate category.
  • The two Master's Thesis Awards 2017 of the Austrian Computer Society both went to JKU: Andreas Grimmer and Christian Humer.
  • Alexander Melzer (Institute of Signal Processing) won the Infineon Innovation Award 2017 in the category "PhD-Thesis".
  • Andreas Grimmer has been nominated for the best Master’s thesis by the Adolf-Adam Award on December 22, 2016.
  • Andreas Grimmer has been awarded with the Austrian State Award for the best Master’s degree  on November 29, 2016.
  • Martin Hengstberger won the Adolf-Adam-Informatikpreis 2016 award for the best Master's thesis in 2016.
  • Alexander Melzer (Institute of Signal Processing) received the Young Scientist Award of Excellence at the U.R.S.I. Kleinheubacher Conference 2015.
  • Stefan Neumüller (Institute of Computational Perception) won the JKU Adolf-Adam-Informatikpreis 2015 for his master's thesis.
  • Benoit Daloze won the Ruby Prize 2015, which was presented to him by the Ruby designer Yukihiro Matsumoto at the RubyWorld conference (see picture).
  • Hannes Bachmayr (Institute of System Software) won the JKU Adolf-Adam-Informatikpreis 2014 for his master's thesis.
  • Dr. Günter Klambauer (Institute of Bioinformatics) received the Award of Excellence of the Austrian Federal Ministery of Science, Research and Economy for his Ph.D. thesis "Machine Learning Techniques for the Analysis of High Throughput DNA and RNA Sequencing Data" (Dec. 2014).
  • Dr. Roland Schatz (Institute for System Software) was honored by the Austrian president (promotion sub auspiciis praesidentis rei publicae), June 2014
  • Andreas Wöß (Institute for System Software) won the JKU Adolf-Adam-Informatikpreis 2013 for his master's thesis.
  • Dr. Thomas Würthinger (Institute for System Software) received the Heinz Zemanek Award 2012 of the Austrian Computer Society for his dissertation on Dynamic Code Evolution.
  • Dr. Thomas Würthiger (Institute for System Software) was honored by the Austrian president (promotion sub auspiciis praesidentis rei publicae), April 2012
  • Andreas Sippl (Institute of Pervasive Computing) won the JKU Adolf-Adam-Informatikpreis of for his master's thesis.
  • Günter Klambauer (Institute of Bioinformatics) won the Austrian Life Science Award (ALSA) 2012
  • Lukas Stadler (Institute of System Software) won the JKU Adolf-Adam-Informatikpreis 2011 for his master's thesis.
  • A. Koppelhuber (Inst. of Computer Graphics) was nominated for the Adolf-Adam-Informatikpreis of JKU Linz and achieved the 2nd place at the final presentations for his Msc. Thesis on a Transparent and Flexible Image Sensor at JKU, Linz, 20/12/2012
  • C. Birklbauer (Inst. of Computer Graphics) was nominated for the Adolf-Adam-Informatikpreis of JKU Linz and achieved the 2nd place at the final presentations for his Msc. Thesis at JKU, Linz, 22/12/2011
  • Klaus Seyerlehner (Inst. for Computational Perception) receives the Award of Excellence of the Austrian Federal Ministery for Science and Research, for his Ph.D. thesis (Dec. 2011)
  • C. Birklbauer, M. Grosse, A. Grundhoefer, T. Liu, and O. Bimber achieved the 2nd place at the ACM Siggraph 2011 Student Research Competition for "Display Pixel Caching"; ACM Siggraph, Vancouver/CA (2011).
  • Christian Häubl (Institute for System Software) won the Young Scientist Award of Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany) for his master's thesis (2009).
  • Thomas Würthinger (Institute for System Software) received an Award from VDI (Verein Deutscher Ingenieure) for his master's thesis (2008).
  • E. Bruns won the STIFT Award for Application-Oriented Research on Universities in Thuringia for his diploma thesis; Stiftung für Innovation und Forschung Thüringen, Erfurt/Germany (2007).
  • Thomas Würthinger (Institute for System Software) received the Award of Excellence (Würdigungspreis) of the Austrian Federal Ministery for Science and Research (2007).
  • JKU student team wins place 26 in the finals of the ACM Programming Contest in Tokyo (2007)
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