Ralf Jung receives ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention

Ralf Jung’s doctoral dissertation on „Understanding and Evolving the Rust Programming Language“ has received the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention. The ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award is considered to be one of the most prestigious international dissertation awards in the area of computer science, and there are only two Honorable Mentions given for the award each year. The Honorable Mention Award comes with a prize of $10,000 and an invitation to accept the award at the annual ACM Awards Banquet in San Francisco.

Ralf’s work has previously received the ETAPS Doctoral Dissertation Award and the Otto Hahn Medal, as well as being featured in the April 2021 issue of Communications of the ACM in an article entitled „Safe Systems Programming in Rust“. For more details see the Saarland Informatics Campus press release.

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