Thomas Anton Henzinger

Bio

Tom Henzinger is Professor at ISTA (Institute of Science and Technology Austria) and a member of the Scientific Council of the ERC (European Research Council). He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University (1991) and honorary doctorates from Fourier University in Grenoble and from Masaryk University in Brno. He was Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, Director at the Max-Planck Institute for Computer Science in Saarbrucken, and Professor of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL in Lausanne. From 2009 until 2022, he was the founding president of ISTA near Vienna. His research focuses on the theory of software systems, especially models, algorithms, and tools for the design and verification of reliable software. His HyTech tool was the first model checker for mixed discrete-continuous systems. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Academia Europaea, the German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), and the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, the ACM, and the IEEE. He received the Robin Milner Award of the Royal Society, the EATCS Award of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science, and the Wittgenstein Award of the Austrian Science Fund.