Awards

2024

  1. ICAPS Best Dissertation Award
    for the PhD dissertation Symbolic Search for Optimal Planning with Expressive Extensions at the Thirty-Fourth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2024).
  1. ICAPS Best Paper Award
    for the paper Decoupled Search for the Masses: A Novel Task Transformation for Classical Planning at the Thirty-Fourth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2024). (with Daniel Gnad)

2023

  1. Winner of the Optimal Classical Track
    with the planning system Ragnarok at the 10th International Planning Competition (IPC 2023) at ICAPS 2023. (with Dominik Drexler, Daniel Gnad, Paul Höft, Jendrik Seipp and Simon Ståhlberg)
  1. Runner-Up of the Optimal Classical Track
    with the planning system Odin at the 10th International Planning Competition (IPC 2023) at ICAPS 2023. (with Dominik Drexler and Jendrik Seipp)
  1. 4x First Place, 2x Second Place (in six tracks)
    with the planning system PARIS 2023 at the 2nd Combinatorial Reconfiguration Challenge (CoRe Challenge 2023). (with Remo Christen, Salomé Eriksson, Michael Katz, Christian Muise, Florian Pommerening, Jendrik Seipp and Silvan Sievers)

2022

  1. Wolfgang-Gentner-Award for Young Researchers
    for the PhD dissertation PhD dissertation Symbolic Search for Optimal Planning with Expressive Extensions, granted by the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Freiburg (more info).
  1. 4x First Place, 3x Second Place, 1x Third Place (in nine tracks)
    with the planning system PARIS at the 1st Combinatorial Reconfiguration Challenge (CoRe Challenge 2022). (with Remo Christen, Salomé Eriksson, Michael Katz, Emil Keyder, Christian Muise, Alice Petrov, Florian Pommerening, Jendrik Seipp and Silvan Sievers)

2021

  1. Best Student Paper Runner-Up Award
    for the paper On the Compilability and Expressive Power of State-Dependent Action Costs at (ICAPS 2021). (with David Borukhson, Robert Mattmüller and Bernhard Nebel)

2018

  1. Winner of the Discrete Markov Decision Process Track
    with the planning system PROST-DD at the 6th International Probabilistic Planning Competition (IPPC2018) at ICAPS 2018. (with Florian Geißer)


Scholarship

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.