VERSEN Thesis Awards History

1st place: dr. Wytse Oortwijn, University of Twente
- Deductive techniques for model-based concurrency verification (pdf)
- Supervisors: Prof. dr. Marieke Huisman
2nd place: dr. Riemer van Rozen, University of Amsterdam
- Languages of games and play: automating game design & enabling live programming (pdf)
- Supervisors: Prof. dr. Paul Klint, Prof. dr. Tijs van der Storm
3rd place - A: dr. Mauricio Cano, University of Groningen
- Session-based concurrency: between operational and declarative views (pdf)
- Supervisors: Dr. Jorge A. Perez, Prof. dr. Gerard Renardel
3rd place - B: Gabriël Konat, TU Delft
- Language-Parametric Methods for Developing Interactive Programming Systems (pdf)
- Supervisors: Prof. dr. Eelco Visser, Prof. dr. S.T. Erdweg

1st place: Lukas Miedema, University of Twente
- QuickInterp - JIT-like performance in a cross-platform cross-CPU way (pdf)
- Supervisors: Marieke Huisman, Tom van Dijk, Andre Kokkeler
2nd place: Taico Aerts, Delft University of Technology
- Incrementalizing Statix (pdf)
- Supervisors: Eelco Visser, Hendrik van Antwerpen
3rd place - A: Katerina Chinnappan, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Mining Green Tactics For Energy-Efficient And Energy-Aware Robotics Software (pdf)
- Supervisors: Ivano Malavolta, Patricia Lago
3rd place - B: Jakob Löhnertz, Universiteit van Amsterdam
- Toward automatic decomposition of monolithic software into microservices (pdf)
- Supervisors: Ana Oprescu, Stephan Schroevers

1st place: dr. Moritz Beller, TU Delft
- An Empirical Evaluation of Feedback-Driven Software Development (pdf)
- Supervisors: Prof. dr. Andy Zaidman, Dr. Georgios Gousios, Prof. dr. Arie van Deursen
2nd place: dr. Marcus Gerhold, University of Twente
- Choice and Chance: Model-Based Testing of Stochastic Behaviour (pdf)
- Supervisors: Prof. dr. Marielle Stoelinga, Prof. dr. Jaco van de Pol
3rd place: dr. Vincent Bloemen, University of Twente
- Strong Connectivity and Shortest Paths for Checking Models (pdf)
- Supervisors: Prof. dr. Jaco van de Pol, Prof. dr. Wil van der Aalst

1st place: Nathan Cassee, TU/e
- The impact of continuous integration on open-source code reviews: how increasing automation changes software engineering practices (pdf)
- Supervisors: Dr. Alexander Serebrenik, Prof. dr. Mark van den Brand
2nd place: Johri van Eerd, TU/e
- Parallel term rewriting on GPUs (pdf)
- Supervisors: Prof. dr. ir. Jan Friso Groote, Dr. ing. Anton Wijs, Dr. Pieter Hijma

1st place: dr. Paul Fiterau Brostean, Radboud University Nijmegen
- Active Model Learning for the Analysis of Network Protocols (pdf)
- Supervisors: Prof. dr. Frits Vaandrager
2nd place: Elvira Maria Arvanitou, University of Groningen
- Proposing and Empirically Validating Change Impact Analysis Metrics (pdf)
- Supervisors: Prof. dr. Paris Avgeriou
3rd place: Garm Lucassen, Utrecht University
- Understanding User Stories (pdf)
- Supervisors: Dr. Fabiano Dalpiaz

1st place: Djurre van der Wal, University of Twente
- Translating AWN networks to the mCRL2 model-checker (pdf)
- Supervisors: Prof. dr. Jaco van de Pol, Dr. Peter Höfner, Dr. Rob van Glabbeek
2nd place: Jan-Jelle Kester, University of Twente
- CheckMerge: A System for Risk Assessment of Code Merges (pdf)
- Supervisors: Prof. dr. Marieke Huisman, Dr. Ansgar Fehnker
3rd place: Lieuwe Vinkhuijzen, Leiden University
- A Quantum Polynomial Hierarchy and a Simple Proof of Vyalyi’s Theorem (pdf)
- Supervisors: Dr. André Deutz