Maximilian R. Odenbrett

M. R. Odenbrett

E-Mail:

maximilian.odenbrett (at) cs.rwth-aachen.de

Phone:

+49-241/80-21210

Fax:

+49-241/80-22217

Postal Address:

Maximilian Odenbrett

Lehrstuhl für Informatik II

RWTH Aachen

D-52056 Aachen

Germany

Visiting Address:

Room 4206

Ahornstraße 55

D-52074 Aachen

My personal site has moved to maximilian.odenbrett.de, including up-to-date contact details.
In December 2012 I will abandon my job at Eindhoven University of Technology and with it also my current position at RWTH Aachen University.

The focus of my work was on Efficient Multi-Core Model Checking. Thus, I was mainly interested in:

Formal Methods for qualitative and quantitative systems
Stochastic Model Checking
Parallel programming for multi- and many-core processors

Most of the time I worked with NVIDIA's Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) for massively parallel General Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPUs).

More details can be found on our project website under www.win.tue.nl/emcmc/.

From April 2010 until December 2011 I was a PhD student in the BioModeling and bioInformatics (BMI) group lead by prof.dr. P.A.J. Hilbers but located at the Software Engineering and Technology (SET) group of prof.dr. M.G.J. van den Brand, both at Eindhoven University of Technology. However, during my PhD work there I also collaborate regularly (biweekly alternating schedule) with Professor J.-P. Katoen and his Software Modeling and Verification Group (MOVES) in Aachen.

2012
	Dragan Bosnacki, Maximilian R. Odenbrett, Anton J. Wijs, Willem Ligtenberg, Peter Hilbers. Efficient reconstruction of biological networks via transitive reduction on general purpose graphics processors. BMC Bioinformatics 13, pages 281, 2012.
2011
	Maximilian R. Odenbrett, Anton J. Wijs. Efficient Reconstruction of Genetic Networks via Transitive Reduction on GPGPUs, Talk at CWI, Amsterdam, 2011.
	Maximilian R. Odenbrett, Anton J. Wijs. Using GPGPUs for Bioinformatics, Talk at IPA Spring Days, Vlijmen, 2011.
2010
	Maximilian R. Odenbrett. Slicing AADL specifications for model checking, Talk at MoVeP, Aachen, 2010.
	Maximilian R. Odenbrett, Viet Yen Nguyen, Thomas Noll. Slicing AADL Specifications for Model Checking. Proc. of the 2nd NASA Formal Methods Symp. (NFM 2010), Volume of NASA Conference Proceedings, pages 217–221, , 2010.
	Maximilian R. Odenbrett. Explicit-State Model Checking of an Architectural Design Language using SPIN. Diplomarbeit at RWTH Aachen University, 2010.

BSc/MSc/Diploma Topics
Teaching WS 2012/13
Hybrid Systems Group

We are looking for a HiWi for the Compiler Construction course. If you are interested, please contact Thomas Noll.

Joost-Pieter Katoen has been appointed as a member of the renowned Academia Europaea (Academy of Europe), a European, non-governmental association acting as an Academy whose members are scientists and scholars who collectively aim to promote learning, education and research.

Vacancies for postdoctoral researchers in "Automated Analysis of Probabilistic Programs". Application deadline: August 15, 2013.

Joost-Pieter Katoen has been awarded a Distinguished Professorship from the RWTH Aachen University.

The Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC'13) conference in Philadelphia has been very successful: Hongfei Fu received the best student paper award for his paper "Approximating acceptance probabilities of CTMC-paths on multi-clock deterministic timed automata". Besides, the paper by Ilya Tkachev, Alexandru Mereacre, Alessandro Abate and Joost-Pieter Katoen was ranked second in the overall best paper award selection.

Joost-Pieter Katoen has been elected as Steering Committee Chair of ETAPS (www.etaps.org), the largest conference on theory and practice of software in Europe. He is the first non-UK ETAPS SC chair since the conference was initiated in 1998. More information here.

The Alumni-Magazine of RWTH Aachen University contains an interview with our former PhD student and postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Tingting Han.

HiWi's wanted to work in a new European Space Agency project for enhancing state-of-the-art design and analysis tools (COMPASS) for the next generation European rockets. Need programming and model checking affinity. See here for details and contact.

We offer openings for several PhD candidates in the area of
"Model-Based Design and Analysis for Dependable Software Systems". Deadline for application: September 14, 2012. For further information click here.

The Theory of Hybrid Systems Group offers two jobs as student assistants within the CEBug project. For more information, look here.

Dino Distefano received the prestigious Roger Needham Award for his work on software verification. This award is for a distinguished research contribution in computer science by a UK based researcher who has completed up to 10 years of post-doctoral research. Dr. Distefano was the first PhD student supervised by Joost-Pieter Katoen.

Marijn Jongerden received the German MMB (Messung, Modellierung und Bewertung von Rechensystemen) Award 2012 of the GI/ITG-Committee for Measurement, Modelling and Evaluation of Computing Systems for his PhD-thesis on "Model-based energy analysis of battery powered systems". His work was supervised by Boudewijn Haverkort (Twente) and Joost-Pieter Katoen.

Our paper "Formal Correctness, Safety, Dependability and Performance Analysis of a Satellite" has been accepted to ICSE 2012 in the track SE in Practice (18% acceptance rate). The paper treats a new satellite from the European Space Agency that was modeled and analyzed with modern tools during the actual satellite design.

Joost-Pieter Katoen will act as DJ in the "Nacht der Professoren" in the Apollo bar and cinema.