Dissertation Award for Ismail Ilkan Ceylan

Ismail Ilkan Ceylan has been awarded the E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize 2018 for his dissertation titled “Query Answering in Data and Knowledge Bases”. The award ceremony took place at University of Sofia, during the 30th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2018).

Since 2002, The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) each year awards the E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize, named in honor of the Dutch mathematician Evert Willem Beth, to outstanding dissertations in the fields of Logic, Language, and Information. This year,the chair of the selection committee was Ian Pratt-Hartmann from University of Manchester. The award includes a donation of 2500 euros and an invitation to submit the thesis to the “FoLLI Publications on Logic, Language and Information” issued by Springer.

As a member of the DFG-funded research training group “Role-based Software Infrastructures (RoSI)”, Ismail Ilkan Ceylan worked on his dissertation at the chair of automata theory and was supervised by Franz Baader. Ismail Ilkan Ceylan defended his PhD thesis at TU Dresden in November 2017. He then joined University of Oxford as a researcher, where he currently acts as a co-investigator in the EPSRC project “RealPDBs: Realistic Data Models and Query Compilation for Large-Scale Probabilistic Databases" which runs from 2017 to 2021.