Unifying speaker Thomas A. Henzinger

Tom Henzinger is the President of the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA). He holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University and Dr.h.c. degrees from Fourier University in Grenoble and from Masaryk University in Brno. He was Assistant Professor at Cornell University and Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He was also Director at the Max-Planck Institute for Computer Science in Saarbrücken and Professor at EPFL in Lausanne. His research focuses on the theory of software systems, especially models, algorithms, and tools for the design and verification of reliable software systems. His HyTech tool was the first model checker for mixed discrete-continuous systems. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Academia Europaea, the German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), and the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He is also a Fellow of the AAAS, the ACM, and the IEEE. He has received the Robin Milner Award of the Royal Society, the EATCS Award of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science, the Wittgenstein Award of the Austrian Science Fund, and two Advanced Grants of the European Research Council.