Awards and Honors

Academic Recognitions

Prof. Gerhard Widmer and Prof. Jürgen Knoblich received the Wittgenstein 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 is 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).

Prof. Alois Ferscha and his team won the Innovation 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 the Innovation 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).

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) .

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).

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.

COMPSAC: Paper by Raúl Mazo, Roberto E. Lopez-Herrejon, Camille Salinesi, Daniel Diaz, Alexander Egyed on "Constraint Programming Approach for Checking Conformance in Feature Models" received the Best Paper Award at the 35th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), Munich, Germany (2011)
Marc Streit received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Conference on Information Visualization (InfoVis '11)
Jahn, M., Wolfinger, R., Mössenböck, H.: Extending Web Applications with Client and Server Plug-ins. Software Engineering 2010 (SE 2010), Paderborn, Germany, February 22-26, 2010, pp.33-44.
Häubl, C., Wimmer, C., Mössenböck, H.: Optimized Strings for the Java HotSpot VM. Conference on Principles and Practice of Programming in Java (PPPJ'08), Modena, Italy, September 2008. pp 105-114.
Wolfinger, R., Reiter, S., Dhungana, D., Grünbacher, P., Prähofer, H.: Supporting Runtime System Adaptation through Product Line Engineering and Plug-in Techniques. 7th Intl. Conf. on Composition-Based Software Systems (ICCBSS 2008), Madrid, Spain, 25-29 Feb. 2008, pp. 21-30.

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 won the Young Scientist Award of Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany) for his master's thesis (2009).
Christian Wimmer 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 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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