Helmut Veith
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Born | Vienna, Austria | 5 February 1971
Died | 12 March 2016 Vienna, Austria | (aged 45)
Citizenship | Austria |
Alma mater | TU Wien |
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Doctoral advisor | Georg Gottlob[2] |
Website | forsyte |
Helmut Veith (5 February 1971 – 12 March 2016) was an Austrian computer scientist who worked on the areas of computer-aided verification,
Education
Veith received his Diplom-Ingenieur in computational logic at TU Wien in 1994. He received his doctorate in computer science in 1998 under the supervision of Professor Georg Gottlob on the topic of computational complexity of logics and database query languages.
Career and research
Veith was a professor at the Faculty of Informatics of TU Wien, and an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. Previously he was a professor at the
Veith published more than 120 refereed publications [5] in the areas of computer-aided verification and program analysis, logic in computer science, software engineering, computer security, and theoretical computer science. He was a co-editor of the Handbook of Model Checking.[6] In 2014, he was co-chair of the Vienna Summer of Logic 2014, the largest conference on logic and computer science in history.
Veith is best known for his role in the development of Counterexample-guided Abstraction Refinement (CEGAR), which is a key ingredient in modern model checkers for software and hardware. His research applies formal and logical methods to problems in software technology and engineering, focusing on model checking, software verification and testing, embedded software and computer security.
Science communication
Veith was a co-founder of the Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms (together with Stefan Szeider).[7] Veith was member of the organizational board of the largest logic conference in the history – the Vienna Summer of Logic 2014, which consisted of twelve large conferences and numerous workshops, attracting over 2000 researchers from all over the world to Vienna. Veith served as the speaker of the FWF-funded Doctoral College on Logical Methods in Computer Science and as the deputy coordinator of the National Research Network Rigorous Systems Engineering (RiSE).[8]
Awards and honours
Veith was awarded his doctorate with highest distinction "sub auspiciis
praesidentis" in a ceremony presided over by the president of Austria. With
his co-authors, he received the CAV Award 2015 [9] honouring contributions
of fundamental importance to the field of computer-aided verification
for his contribution to the development of CEGAR. His work on the
software model checker MAGIC received the ACM Distinguished Paper
Award for contribution to the study of verification of modular
software.
References
- ^ a b "Helmut Veith". Google Scholar. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
- ^ Helmut Veith at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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- ^ "Nachruf auf Helmut Veith: Ein unlogischer Tod". 2016-03-21.
- ^ "Helmut Veith". DBLP. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
- ISBN 978-3-319-10575-8. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
- ^ "Zentrum für Grundlagen der Informatik - derStandard.at". DER STANDARD (in Austrian German). Retrieved 2019-11-26.
- ^ "Helmut Veith: 1971 - 2016". www.tuwien.at. 2019-11-25. Retrieved 2019-11-26.
- ^ "CAV Award". International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
- ^ "ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award". SIGSOFT. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
- S2CID 7099578.