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I'm a PhD student in the MOVES group at RWTH Aachen University. I'm supervised by Prof. Dr. Erika チbrah疥 and Prof. Dr. Ir. Joost-Pieter Katoen. I'm also part of the research training group AlgoSyn.
E-Mail: nils.jansen at cs.rwth-aachen.de
Phone: +49-241/80-21208
Address: Room 4230, Ahornstra?e 55, 52074 Aachen, Germany
Research
My research interests include verification and synthesis of probabilistic systems, parametric systems and other verification issues like abstraction or regular model checking. I am particularly interested in the generation of counterexamples and their application, symbolic techniques and the utilization of solving techniques like SAT, SMT or linear programming.
I participate(d) in the research projects CEBug, ROCKS, MEALS and HySmart. I also work on parametric probabilistic systems, see the project page.
In addition to these projects I'm very interested in the improvement of teaching and e-learning in the field of theoretical computer science.
Publications
For a list of my publications, technical reports and selected talks please look here . My publications as seen by DBLP are here . Find my Google Scholar profile here .
About Me
2010 - today
Member of the Commission for Teaching in Computer Science
2009 - today
PhD student and research assistant at RWTH Aachen University
2010 - 2011
Member of the AlgoSyn Steering Committee
2002 - 2009
Studies of computer science with minor business administration at RWTH Aachen University
1988 - 2001
School education
1982
Born in Simmerath, Germany
During spring and summer of 2013, I stayed at Universidad Nacional de Cordoba with Pedro R. d'Argenio. Within 2010 - 2013 I've stayed many times at the University of Freiburg with Ralf Wimmer and Bernd Becker.
I was an external reviewer for, amongst others, CAV, TACAS, VMCAI, FSTTCS, QEST, ATVA, FORMATS, HSCC, TASE, FMOODS-FORTE, and FACS.
Besides computer science, I'm the conductor of a small orchestra, I enjoy music and reading, and I am very much into food and sometimes sports.
Tools
Within the CEBug project we have developed the COMICS tool which computes small critical subsystems as counterexamples for Discrete-time Markov Chains. The current version is available on the COMICS-website. I will release an improved version soon.
Supervised Theses
I have supervised some Bachelor's or Master's Theses. Find below the finished ones.
- Marian Van de veire, "Minimal Critical Subsystems for Probabilistic Models with Nondeterminism"
- Andreas Vorpahl, "Compositional Counterexamples for MDPs"
- Matthias Volk, "Verification and Synthesis for Parametric Markov Chains"
- Maik Scheffler, "Hierarchical Counterexamples for DTMCs - Case Studies"
- Amith Belur Nagabushana, "Minimal Critical Subsystems for PCTL Properties of Markov Models"
Activities
- Member of the AlgoSyn steering committee Mar 2010 - Oct 2011
- Member of the commission for teaching in computer science
- Program book, web administration and local organization for the Aachen Concurrency and Dependability Week 2011 (CONCUR 2011, QEST 2011, TGC 2011)
- Organization of Ringvorlesung: Was ist Informatik 2013
- Organization of Ringvorlesung: Was ist Informatik 2012
- Organization of Ringvorlesung: Was ist Informatik 2011
- Organization of Ringvorlesung: Was ist Informatik 2010
- Co-organization of Sch?leruniversit舩 2012
- Co-organization of Sch?leruniversit舩 2011
- Co-organization of Sch?leruniversit舩 2010
- Co-organization of Sch?leruniversit舩 2009
Teaching Assistance
Winter 2012/2013
- Lecture Satisfiability Checking
- Proseminar Algorithms and Tools for Verification
Summer 2012
- Lecture Satisfiability Checking
Winter 2011/2012
- Lecture Satisfiability Checking
- Seminar Satisfiability Checking
Summer 2011
- Proseminar: Real-Time Systems
Winter 2010/2011
- Lecture Satisfiability Checking
- Seminar Satisfiability Checking
Summer 2010
- Proseminar Real Time Systems
Winter 2009/2010
- Lecture Erf?llbarkeits?berpr?fung
- Seminar Satisfiability Checking
Summer 2009
- Lecture Modeling and Analysis of Hybrid Systems
- Seminar Probabilistische Systeme
March 12, 2014
We are looking for a HiWi for the Compiler Construction course. If you are interested, please contact Thomas Noll.
Sept. 17, 2013
Joost-Pieter Katoen has been appointed as a member of the renowned Academia Europaea (Academy of Europe), a European, non-governmental association acting as an Academy whose members are scientists and scholars who collectively aim to promote learning, education and research.
July 15, 2013
Vacancies for postdoctoral researchers in "Automated Analysis of Probabilistic Programs". Application deadline: August 15, 2013.
May 6, 2013
Joost-Pieter Katoen has been awarded a Distinguished Professorship from the RWTH Aachen University.
April 11, 2013
The Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC'13) conference in Philadelphia has been very successful: Hongfei Fu received the best student paper award for his paper "Approximating acceptance probabilities of CTMC-paths on multi-clock deterministic timed automata". Besides, the paper by Ilya Tkachev, Alexandru Mereacre, Alessandro Abate and Joost-Pieter Katoen was ranked second in the overall best paper award selection.
March 20, 2013
Joost-Pieter Katoen has been elected as Steering Committee Chair of ETAPS (www.etaps.org), the largest conference on theory and practice of software in Europe. He is the first non-UK ETAPS SC chair since the conference was initiated in 1998. More information here.
February 6, 2013
The Alumni-Magazine of RWTH Aachen University contains an interview with our former PhD student and postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Tingting Han.
21 December, 2012
HiWi's wanted to work in a new European Space Agency project for enhancing state-of-the-art design and analysis tools (COMPASS) for the next generation European rockets. Need programming and model checking affinity. See here for details and contact.
August 16, 2012
We offer openings for several PhD candidates in the area of
"Model-Based Design and Analysis for Dependable Software Systems". Deadline for application: September 14, 2012. For further information click here.
"Model-Based Design and Analysis for Dependable Software Systems". Deadline for application: September 14, 2012. For further information click here.
July 20, 2012
The Theory of Hybrid Systems Group offers two jobs as student assistants within the CEBug project. For more information, look here.
April 2, 2012
Dino Distefano received the prestigious Roger Needham Award for his work on software verification. This award is for a distinguished research contribution in computer science by a UK based researcher who has completed up to 10 years of post-doctoral research. Dr. Distefano was the first PhD student supervised by Joost-Pieter Katoen.
March 19, 2012
Marijn Jongerden received the German MMB (Messung, Modellierung und Bewertung von Rechensystemen) Award 2012 of the GI/ITG-Committee for Measurement, Modelling and Evaluation of Computing Systems for his PhD-thesis on "Model-based energy analysis of battery powered systems". His work was supervised by Boudewijn Haverkort (Twente) and Joost-Pieter Katoen.
March 1, 2012
Our paper "Formal Correctness, Safety, Dependability and Performance Analysis of a Satellite" has been accepted to ICSE 2012 in the track SE in Practice (18% acceptance rate). The paper treats a new satellite from the European Space Agency that was modeled and analyzed with modern tools during the actual satellite design.
January 27, 2012
Joost-Pieter Katoen will act as DJ in the "Nacht der Professoren" in the Apollo bar and cinema.
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