Ben Gras, a former PhD student at the VUSEC research group, has won the Roger Needham PhD Award. The news has been announced at the EuroSys conference. This is the 7th award the VU has won over the years, far outpacing any other institution in Europe.
The EuroSys Roger Needham PhD award is an annual prize awarded to a PhD student from a European University whose thesis is regarded to be an exceptional, innovative contribution to knowledge in the systems area. “Systems” is interpreted broadly, and includes operating systems, distributed systems, real-time systems, transactional and database systems, language runtimes, embedded systems, computer networks, systems aspects of programming, systems security, etc. The winner will receive 2000 EUR, which will be awarded at the EuroSys conference. The prize is donated by Microsoft Research Cambridge.
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