Kim Guldstrand Larsen

Biography: Kim Guldstrand Larsen is Professor in Computer Science at Aalborg University, Denmark. His field of research includes modeling, validation and verification, performance analysis, and synthesing of real-time, embedded, and cyber-physical systems utilizing and contributing to concurrency theory, model checking and model checking. Kim Guldstrand Larsen is co-founder and main contributor to the tool UPPAAL. UPPAAL received the prestigious CAV Award in 2013 as the foremost tool for modelling and verification of real-time systems. Kim Guldstrand Larsen won the ERC Advanced Grant in 2015 and won a Villum Investigator grant in 2021. In 2022 he received the CONCUR Test-of-Time Award 2022.

Kim Guldstrand Larsen is a member of Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, elected fellow and digital expert (vismand) in the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences and Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog (2007). Moreover he is Honorary Doctor, Uppsala University (1999), Honorary Doctor, École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay, Paris (2007), Foreign Expert of China, Distinguished Professor, Northeastern University (2018).  He has published more nearly 500 peer-reviewed papers and received Thomson Scientific Award as the most cited Danish computer scientist 1990-2004.