Oliver Heckmann from Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, and Google Labs Zürich, Switzerland, has been awarded the 2006 Cor Baayen Award for a most promising young researcher in computer science and applied mathematics by ERCIM.
In a particularly tight competition, ERCIM has awarded Oliver Heckmann for the outstanding originality, high impact and quality of his work in the field of network science. To put it in very simple words, Oliver Heckmann tries to give Internet users better quality of service for equal or lower costs. He strives to remove inefficiencies, optimise networks and achieve technological breakthroughs that improve quality of service and/or costs for users. He also sheds light on the trade-off between these two goals. The practical applicability of his results has put him in good contact with many real providers, helped him in acquiring funding, and also led to the recent publication of his book "The Competitive ISP" which also contains many results from his excellent PhD thesis "A System-oriented Approach to Efficiency and Quality of Service for Internet Service Providers".
Oliver Heckmann studied applied economics and electrical engineering at TU Darmstadt with award for excellence. He did his PhD in computer science at TU Darmstadt with Prof. Ralf Steinmetz as supervisor and Prof. Jon Crowcroft from University Cambridge, UK as second supervisor. His PhD thesis was awarded the prestigious best dissertation award of the German Computer Science Association for 2004. After his PhD, he was working as an assistant professor / research group head at the Multimedia Communications Lab (KOM), leading a team of 7 PhD student. Recently, he joined Google Labs in Zürich, Switzerland, to continue working on improving and innovating the Internet and Internet services.
Finalists 2006
19 finalists for the 2006 Cor Baayen Award have been nominated by the ERCIM institutes. According to the award rules, each institute was allowed to select up to two finalists from its country.
Alexandre Bergel, Ireland
Rickard Cöster, Sweden
Ton Dieker, The Netherlands
Guido Dornhege, Germany
Olivier Dousse, Switzerland
Sameh El-Ansary, Sweden
Serge Fehr, The Netherlands
Alain Frisch,France
Tudor Gîrba, Switzerland
Oliver Heckmann,Germany
András Kovács, Hungary
Ivan Laptev,France
Taneli Mielikainen,Finland
Harald Øverby, Norway
Tom Schrijvers, Belgium
Giuseppe Scarpa, Italy
Alkis Simitsis, Greece
Vassilios Solachidis, Greece
Gem Stapleton, United Kingdom
| About the Award |
The Cor Baayen Award is awarded each year to a most promising young researcher in computer science and applied mathematics. The award was created in 1995 to honour the first ERCIM President.
The award consists of a cheque for 5000 Euro together with an award certificate. The selected fellow will be invited to the ERCIM meetings in autumn 2006. A short article on the winner, together with the list of all candidates nominated, will be published in ERCIM News.
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Cor Baayen Award 2007
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| Eligibility |
- Nominees must have carried out their work in one of the 'ERCIM countries': Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom
- Nominees must have been awarded their PhD (or equivalent) after 15 April 2004.
- A person can only be nominated once for the Cor Baayen Award.
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| Submitting a nomination |
- Nominations should be made by a staff member of the university or research institute where the nominee is undertaking research. Self nominations are not accepted.
- To submit a nomination fill out the Cor Baayen Award Nomination Form (available shortly) and provide a URL to the candidate's PhD thesis as well as the candidate's best papers (max. 5).
- Alternatively contact the ERCIM Executive Committee member (the national contact point) for the country in which the nominee is undertaking research (see http://www.ercim.org/contacts/execom/)
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| Selection |
- Initial selection will be made by each ERCIM institute (the national contact point) which is allowed to put forward up to two candidates from its country
- Nominees will be informed if they have been selected as one of the two candidates from their country.
- The selection of the Cor Baayen award winner is the responsibility of the ERCIM Executive Committee, who will consult expert opinion in reaching their decision.
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| Deadlines |
Nominations must be submitted by 15 April 2007.
National contacts are to send their two selected nominations to the coordinator by 30 April, 2007. |
| Further Information |
Can be obtained from your national contact or from the Cor Baayen Award coordinator László Monostori, SZTAKI (laszlo.monostori ercim.org). |
