{"id":14,"date":"2023-02-25T18:01:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T18:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kgl.cs.aau.dk\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2026-02-04T11:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T11:00:14","slug":"kim-guldstrand-larsen-villum-investigator-r","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kgl.cs.aau.dk\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" src=\"https:\/\/kgl.cs.aau.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-20.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-38\" style=\"width:329px;height:227px\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-not-stacked-on-mobile is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:44.45%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"719\" height=\"97\" src=\"https:\/\/kgl.cs.aau.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Velux_Foundations.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kgl.cs.aau.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Velux_Foundations.png 719w, https:\/\/kgl.cs.aau.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Velux_Foundations-300x40.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 719px) 85vw, 719px\" \/><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:22.22%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"62\" height=\"62\" src=\"https:\/\/kgl.cs.aau.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-22.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40\" style=\"width:37px;height:37px\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uppaal.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"557\" height=\"137\" src=\"https:\/\/kgl.cs.aau.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/uppaal-logo.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-181\" style=\"width:102px;height:25px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kgl.cs.aau.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/uppaal-logo.png 557w, https:\/\/kgl.cs.aau.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/uppaal-logo-300x74.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 557px) 85vw, 557px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I am a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Aalborg University within the Distributed, Embedded Systems and Intelligent (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.aau.dk\/research\/distributed-embedded-intelligent-systems\/\">DEIS<\/a>) Unit and director of the ICT-competence center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ciss.dk\/\">CISS<\/a>, Center for Embedded Software Systems.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I am a VILLUM Investigator with the project S4OS:&nbsp; Scalable analysis and Synthesis of Safe,&nbsp; Secure and Optimal Strategies for Cyber-Physical Systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2015 I won an ERC Advanced Grant with the project <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasso-cs.dk\/\">LASSO <\/a>for learning, analysis, synthesis and optimization of cyber physical systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am also director of the Danish Innovation Network <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infinit.dk\">InfinIT<\/a>, as well as the Innovation Fund Denmark research center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dicyps.dk\/\">DiCyPS<\/a>. I am the PI of the Villum Synergy Project <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.aau.dk\/news-and-events\/show\/researchers-striving-for-better-water-control.cid470343\">CLAIRE<\/a> and the project <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.aau.dk\/news-and-events\/show\/researchers-to-play-chess-against-corona--this-will-happen-when-society-is-reopened.cid467314\">BEOCOVID<\/a> funded by Poul Due Jensen Grundfos Foundation. &nbsp;I am also co-PI in the Innovation Fund Denmark projects <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flexibleenergydenmark.dk\/\">FED<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dryp.global\/donut\">DONUT<\/a> and the Vienna Science and Technology Fund project WHATIF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Research<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>My research interests include modeling and semantics, verification and logic, concurrency theory, performance analysis of real-time, embedded and cyber-physical systems, model checking and machine learning with numerous application in transport, energy and water management. &nbsp;I am prime investigator of the award winning tool <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uppaal.org\">UPPAAL <\/a>as well as its branches targeting planning, optimization, testing, synthesis, machine learning and compositional analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>DEGREES AND AWARDS<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ph.D. Edinburgh University, Computer Science, 1986<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Honorary Doctor, Uppsala University,1999<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Danish citation Laureates Awards, Thomson Scienctic Award as mos cited Danish Computer Scientist, 1990-2004.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ridder af Dannebrog, \u201c007<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Honorary Dcotor, ENS Cachan, paris, 2007<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Member of the Academia Europaea, 2012<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CAV Award 2013<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ERC Acvanced Grant 2015,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Grundfos Prize, 2016<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CONCUR Test-Of-Time Award, 2022<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>INRIA International Chair, France (2016- )<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stanford University List of 2% most cited scientist globally, year 2024 and global career.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Recent and Upcoming Conferences <\/strong>(please submit) <strong>&amp; \u00cdnvited Talks<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/direc.dk\/direc-talks-formal-verification-and-machine-learning-forces\/\">DIREC Talks<\/a>, Formal Verification and Machine Learning Joining Forcesx<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/my.eventbuizz.com\/event\/digital-tech-summit-8890\/detail\">Digital Tech Summit<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lcs.ios.ac.cn\/memocode21\/\">MEMOCODE&#8217;21,<\/a> 19th ACM-IEEE International Conference on Formal Methods and Models for System Design<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tilmeld.dk\/datasciencetalk\/programmedata\">Novo Nordisk Foundation, DataScience Talk<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/infosecurity.v2.dk\/website\/default.vbhtml?confid=04ee256c-83e8-46c9-b74a-cfc6c1f3fec2\">InfoSecurity 2021 &#8211; Version 2.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ictac2021.github.io\/\">ICTAC 2021<\/a>, 18th International Colloqwuium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/simons.berkeley.edu\/workshops\/tfcs2021-1\">Synthesis of Models and Systems<\/a>, Simons Institute, Berkeley,\u00a0 Spring 2021.<br>(Invited Lecture).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/etaps.org\/2022\/tacas\">TACAS 2022<\/a> (PC Member)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/etaps.org\/2021\/tacas\">TACAS 2021<\/a> (Chair)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/i-cav.org\/2021\/call-for-papers\/\">CAV 2021<\/a> (PC Member)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hscc.acm.org\/2021\/\">HSCC 2021<\/a> (PC Member)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newton.ac.uk\/event\/vso\">Workshop on Verified Systems, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, June, 2021<\/a><br>(Co-Organizer)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Spin-outs<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uppaal.com\/\">UP4ALL<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/at-systems.dk\/\">AT-Systems<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>PhD Thesis, Edinburgh University available&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.aau.dk\/~kgl\/PhDThesis.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Aalborg University within the Distributed, Embedded Systems and Intelligent (DEIS) Unit and director of the ICT-competence center CISS, Center for Embedded Software Systems. 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