Timon Gehr wins IBM PhD Fellowship Award

Congratulations to Timon Gehr for winning the 2019 IBM PhD Fellowship Award!

Timon Gehr's work sits at the intersection of probabilistic and symbolic reasoning and focuses on making artificial intelligence more safe, trustworthy and explainable. During his PhD, he developed a new, state-of-the-art probabilistic programming language and solver, called external page PSI,  which allows for precise reasoning of rich probabilistic models. He has also developed new methods and systems for certifying and reasoning about deep neural networks.

About the Award

IBM created the external page PhD Fellowship program in the 1950's to recognize and support outstanding graduate students. The IBM PhD Fellowship Awards Program is an intensely competitive worldwide program, which honors exceptional PhD students who have an interest in solving problems that are important to IBM and fundamental to innovation in many academic disciplines and areas of study. This includes pioneering work in: cognitive computing and augmented intelligence; quantum computing; blockchain; data-centric systems; advanced analytics; security; radical cloud innovation; next-generation silicon (and beyond); and brain-inspired devices and infrastructure.