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General Information

Full Name Nils Froleyks
Date of Birth 16th March 1995
Institution KU Leuven, Belgium
Email nfroleyks@gmail.com
Phone +43 670 7034204
Languages English, German

Experience

  • 2025 –
    Postdoctoral Researcher
    Prof. Bogaerts — KU Leuven, Belgium
  • 2020 – 2025
    University Assistant
    Prof. Biere — Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Education

  • 2025
    PhD in Computer Science
    Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
    Deep Integration of SAT Solving and Model Checking
    • Prof. Armin Biere, Prof. Martina Seidl
  • 2020
    MSc in Computer Science
    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
    PASAR – Planning as Satisfiability with Abstraction Refinement
    • Prof. Peter Sanders, Dr. Tomáš Balyo, Dr. Dominik Schreiber
    • Best Thesis Award 🏆
  • 2017
    BSc in Computer Science
    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
    Using an Algorithm Portfolio to Solve Sokoban
    • Prof. Peter Sanders, Dr. Tomáš Balyo

Career Breaks

  • 2022
    • Paternity Leave (Feb – Nov)

Honors and Awards

  • 2025
    • CAV Distinguished Paper Award
  • 2022
    • Third Place, Combinatorial Reconfiguration Challenge
  • 2020
    • Best Master’s Thesis Award, KIT
  • 2019
    • First Prize (Partial Gold Medal), Sparkle Planning Challenge, ICAPS

Scientific Event Organization

  • 2025
    • Organizer, Hardware Model Checking Competition – FMCAD, USA
  • 2024
    • Organizer, Hardware Model Checking Competition – FMCAD, Prague
  • 2021
    • Organizer, SAT Competition – Barcelona
  • 2020
    • Organizer, Hardware Model Checking Competition – Virtual
    • Organizer, SAT Competition – Alghero, Italy

Teaching & Supervision

  • 2024
    • Lecturer in Model Checking (Winter), JKU Linz
    • Lecturer in Debugging (Summer), JKU Linz
    • Supervised Bachelor’s Thesis – Ternary simulation for IC3, JKU Linz
  • 2020–2024
    • Teaching Assistant – Model Checking, Formal Models, Logic, SAT Solving, AI, JKU Linz
  • 2018
    • Teaching Assistant – Algorithms for Planar Graphs, KIT
  • 2015–2019
    • Teaching Assistant – Theoretical Foundations of Informatics, KIT