2024

1. David Speck

   has won the ICAPS Best Dissertation Award at the Thirty-Fourth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2024) for his dissertation Symbolic Search for Optimal Planning with Expressive Extensions.

1. David Speck and Daniel Gnad

   received the Best Paper Award for the paper Decoupled Search for the Masses: A Novel Task Transformation for Classical Planning at the the Thirty-Fourth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2024).

2023

1. Remo Christen, Salomé Eriksson, Michael Katz, Christian Muise, Florian Pommerening, Jendrik Seipp, Silvan Sievers and David Speck

   achieved 4x first place and 2x second place at the 2nd Combinatorial Reconfiguration Challenge (CoRe Challenge 2023) with the PARIS 2023 solver they developed.

1. Dominik Drexler, Daniel Gnad, Paul Höft, David Speck, Jendrik Seipp and Simon Ståhlberg

   have won the Optimal Classical Track of the International Planning Competition 2023 (IPC 2023) with the planning system Ragnarok.

1. Dominik Drexler, David Speck and Jendrik Seipp

   have won the second prize in the Optimal Classical Track of the International Planning Competition 2023 (IPC 2023) with the planning system Odin.

2022

1. David Speck

   received the Wolfgang-Gentner-Award for Young Researchers for his dissertation Symbolic Search for Optimal Planning with Expressive Extensions from the the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Freiburg.

1. Remo Christen, Salomé Eriksson, Michael Katz, Emil Keyder, Christian Muise, Alice Petrov, Florian Pommerening, Jendrik Seipp, Silvan Sievers and David Speck

   achieved 4x first place, 3x second place, 1x third place in nine tracks at the 1st Combinatorial Reconfiguration Challenge (CoRe Challenge 2022) with the PARIS solver they developed.

2021

1. David Speck, David Borukhson, Robert Mattmüller and Bernhard Nebel

   received the Best Student Paper Runner-Up Award for the paper On the Compilability and Expressive Power of State-Dependent Action Costs at the 31st International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2021).

2018

1. Florian Geißer and David Speck

   have won the International Probabilistic Planning Competition 2018 (IPPC2018) with the planning system PROST-DD.

2015

1. Christoph-Rüchardt Scholarship (1 year duration)

   Granted by the Faculty of Engineering (University of Freiburg) for outstanding master’s students who have demonstrated exceptional academic merit in their undergraduate studies.