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Austria
2026

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D-Index
118
Citations
71769
World Ranking
158
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Computer Science in Austria Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Austria Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Austria Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Austria Leader Award
  • 2020 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2015 - European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) Fellow For fundamental contributions to formal verification and synthesis of computer and biological systems
  • 2012 - Wittgenstein Award
  • 2006 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2006 - ACM Fellow For contributions to formal verification and hybrid systems.
  • 2005 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Informatics

Overview

Thomas A. Henzinger is affiliated with the Institute of Science and Technology Austria. Their primary research domain is Computer Science, with a strong focus on Artificial Intelligence and Computational Theory and Mathematics. The scope of study also includes Computer Networks and Communications, Hardware and Architecture, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas including Formal Methods in Verification, Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning, Security and Verification in Computing, Logic, programming, and type systems, Petri Nets in System Modeling, Machine Learning and Algorithms, and Fault Detection and Control Systems.

Recent papers by Thomas A. Henzinger include:

  • Neural circuit policies enabling auditable autonomy, 2020, Nature Machine Intelligence
  • Scalable Verification of Quantized Neural Networks, 2021, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Stability Verification in Stochastic Control Systems via Neural Network Supermartingales, 2022, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Learning Control Policies for Stochastic Systems with Reach-Avoid Guarantees, 2023, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Engineering MultiQueues: Fast Relaxed Concurrent Priority Queues, 2021, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)

Frequent co-authors of the scientist are:

  • Mathias Lechner
  • Đorđe Žikelić
  • Krishnendu Chatterjee
  • N. Ege Saraç
  • Konstantin Kueffner

Notable publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Logical Methods in Computer Science
  • Singapore Management University Institutional Knowledge (InK) (Singapore Management University)

Over the course of their career, Thomas A. Henzinger has received multiple awards and honors including:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2020
  • European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) Fellow, 2015, for contributions to formal verification and synthesis of computer and biological systems
  • Wittgenstein Award, 2012
  • ACM Fellow, 2006, for contributions to formal verification and hybrid systems
  • Member of Academia Europaea, 2006
  • German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, 2005, informatics

Best Publications

  • The theory of hybrid automata

    T.A. Henzinger

  • The algorithmic analysis of hybrid systems

    Rajeev Alur;Costas Courcoubetis;Nicolas Halbwachs;Thomas A. Henzinger

  • Alternating-time temporal logic

    Rajeev Alur;Thomas A. Henzinger;Orna Kupferman

  • HYTECH: A Model Checker for Hybrid Systems

    Thomas A. Henzinger;Pei-Hsin Ho;Howard Wong-Toi

  • Symbolic model checking for real-time systems

    Thomas A. Henzinger;Xavier Nicollin;Joseph Sifakis;Sergio Yovine

  • Hybrid Automata: An Algorithmic Approach to the Specification and Verification of Hybrid Systems

    Rajeev Alur;Costas Courcoubetis;Thomas A. Henzinger;Pei-Hsin Ho

  • Interface automata

    Luca de Alfaro;Thomas A. Henzinger

  • Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control.

    Thomas A. Henzinger;Shankar Sastry

  • Lazy abstraction

    Thomas A. Henzinger;Ranjit Jhala;Rupak Majumdar;Grégoire Sutre

  • What's Decidable about Hybrid Automata?

    Thomas A. Henzinger

  • Discrete abstractions of hybrid systems

    R. Alur;T.A. Henzinger;G. Lafferriere;G.J. Pappas

  • Giotto: A Time-Triggered Language for Embedded Programming

    Thomas A. Henzinger;Benjamin Horowitz;Christoph Meyer Kirsch

  • A really temporal logic

    Rajeev Alur;Thomas A. Henzinger

  • Reactive Modules

    Rajeev Alur;Thomas A. Henzinger

  • Automatic symbolic verification of embedded systems

    R. Alur;T.A. Henzinger;Pei-Hsin Ho

  • The benefits of relaxing punctuality

    Rajeev Alur;Tomás Feder;Thomas A. Henzinger

  • Logics and Models of Real Time: A Survey

    Rajeev Alur;Thomas A. Henzinger

  • The software model checker B last : Applications to software engineering

    Dirk Beyer;Thomas A. Henzinger;Ranjit Jhala;Rupak Majumdar

  • Real-time logics: complexity and expressiveness

    R. Alur;T.A. Henzinger

  • What's decidable about hybrid automata?

    Thomas A. Henzinger;Peter W. Kopke;Anuj Puri;Pravin Varaiya

  • HYTECH: the next generation

    T.A. Henzinger;Pei-Hsin Ho;H. Wong-Toi

Frequent Co-Authors

Krishnendu Chatterjee
Krishnendu Chatterjee Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Rupak Majumdar
Rupak Majumdar Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
Rajeev Alur
Rajeev Alur University of Pennsylvania
Laurent Doyen
Laurent Doyen École Normale Supérieure
Jean-François Raskin
Jean-François Raskin Université Libre de Bruxelles
Luca de Alfaro
Luca de Alfaro University of California, Santa Cruz
Dirk Beyer
Dirk Beyer Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Ranjit Jhala
Ranjit Jhala University of California, San Diego
Orna Kupferman
Orna Kupferman Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Shaz Qadeer
Shaz Qadeer Microsoft (United States)

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