Alyssa Milburn, one of former VUSec PhD students has won the Roger Needham PhD Award
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 receives 2000 EUR, which are awarded at the EuroSys conference. The prize is donated by Microsoft Research Cambridge.
Criteria for selection are the overall contribution to systems research in terms of scientific originality, scientific significance, scientific rigor, quality of the presentation, and potential for practical application.
It is for the 8th out of 20 times that this award was awarded to the VUSec group, far outpacing any other institution in Europe.
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