news

Apr 02, 2025 Teaching: We were featured in a promotional case study for CodeGrade.
Mar 24, 2025 I will act as PC chair for the International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR) in 2026.
Mar 02, 2025 Our group will host CONFEST’26 in Liverpool. Together with David Purser, Shufang Zhu, and Daniel Hausmann, I will organize this umbrella event, including the three main conferences CONCUR, FMICS, QEST+FORMATS, and affiliated workshops.
Feb 10, 2025 We welcome Henry Sinclair-Banks (Warsaw), who is visiting us this week.
Feb 10, 2025 Funding: The European Commission has confirmed forthcoming support for our Horizon Europe project Quantum Synthesis, on PFA, QFA and Games. The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action will support Di-De Yen (Fellow) and myself (PI) for 24 months. Congratulations!
Jan 10, 2025 Our article HyperLTL Satisfiability Is Highly Undecidable, HyperCTL* is Even Harder, joint work with Marie Fortin, Louwe B. Kuijer, and Martin Zimmermann, has (finally) been published in Logical Methods in Computer Science.
Jan 06, 2025 We welcome Andrew Ryzhikov (Oxford), who is visiting us until January 16th.
Dec 22, 2024 I’m on the PC of HIGHTLIGHTS’25
Oct 15, 2024 Our article History-deterministic Timed Automata, joint work with Sougata Bose,Thomas A. Henzinger, Karoliina Lehtinen, Sven Schewe, was (finally) published in Logical Methods in Computer Science.
Sep 14, 2024 Our article Strategy Complexity of Reachability in Countable Stochastic 2-Player Games, joint work with Stefan Kiefer, Richard Mayr, and Mahsa Shirmohammadi, was (finally) published in Dynamic Games and Applications.
Jun 02, 2024 I attended the Dagstuhl Seminar 24231 on Stochastic Games. See here for my slides.
Jun 01, 2024 Appointment to full professor (personal chair).
Mar 25, 2024 A warm welcome to Di-De Yen who starts his postdoc with me today, funded through our EPSRC project Games for Good.
Feb 24, 2024 I am on the PC of GandALF (International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification) 2024.
Jan 30, 2024 The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has confirmed forthcoming support for my work through their Heisenberg Programm.
Jan 18, 2024 I will serve on the PC of FoSSaCS (Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures) in 2025.
Dec 21, 2023 Our paper on Parity Games on Temporal Graphs has been accepted at FoSSaCS’24.
Dec 05, 2023 I will act as publicity chair for the forthcoming and newly joined conference(s) QEST+FORMATS’24.
Sep 18, 2023 I am attending INFINITY and CONCUR this year. Meet you in Antwerp?
Sep 11, 2023 Starting in ‘24, I will be PI on the new EPSRC project Games for Good with Sven Schewe and Qiyi Tang (CIs).
Mar 06, 2023 I am on the PC of TIME’23 (International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning).
Jan 17, 2023 I am on the PC of GandALF (International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification) this year.
Dec 15, 2022 I am on the PC of FORMATS’23 (International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems).
Sep 22, 2022 I am on the PC of MFCS (Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science) 2023.
Jul 01, 2022 A warm welcome to Peter Austin who starts a PhD with me today!
Jun 29, 2022 Funding: I am CI on the upcoming EPSRC project Under the Branches of Universal Trees with Sven Schewe (PI), Daniele Dell’Erba and Dominik Wojtczak (CIs).
Jun 27, 2022 I am attending HIGHTLIGHTS and ICALP and (virtually) CONCUR this year.
Apr 29, 2022 Together with Rahul Savani I’ve won a competitive “Learning & Teaching and Student Experience Award” for our work on assessment and feedback for coding assignments. Check out my slides slides for the showcase talk.
Apr 07, 2022 Together with János Flesch and Arkadi Predtetchinski I will host the workshop on Trends in Graph and Stochastic Games in Maastricht.
Jul 01, 2021 A warm welcome to Sougata Bose who starts his postdoc with me today!
May 11, 2021 I’m shortlisted for the 2021 “Teacher of the Year” award in Science and Engineering by the Liverpool Guild of Students. Many thanks for the nomination and congrats to all winners!
Apr 01, 2021 Together with Paul Bell I am PC co-chair for Reachability Problems (RP’21).
Mar 29, 2021 Excited to host this year’s British Colloquium for Theoretical Computer Science (BCTCS) on March 29–31. Check out our website for details.
Mar 03, 2021 Funding success: together with Filip Mazowiecki and Georg Zetzsche (MPI-SWS) we are supported by a Royal Society International Exchanges grant to study Unambiguity in Infinite-state Systems.
Feb 18, 2021 I am looking for a postdoc! The position is available for 3 years starting in May 2021 (flexible). Application deadline is 21-03-2021. Details here.
Dec 17, 2020 Funding success: I will be PI on a new EPSRC funded project on the cost of winning strategies!
Dec 16, 2020 I’m on the PC of HIGHTLIGHTS’21
Jul 01, 2020 I am attending INFINITY, HIGHTLIGHTS and Autoboz this year.
Jun 29, 2020 Two papers accepted for publication at CONCUR, one at ICALP and one at MFCS this year.
Nov 28, 2019 I’m a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.
Aug 06, 2019 I’m on the PC of LICS’21.