Kevin Batz

Email
kevin.batz at cs.rwth-aachen.de
Address
Room 4203
Ahornstraße 55
D-52074 Aachen
Phone
+49 241 80 21206

I am a PhD student and member of the FRAPPANT project at the Software Modeling and Verification Group headed by Professor J.-P. Katoen. My research interests include:

  • Semantics of (heap-manipulating) probabilistic programs
  • Techniques and calculi enabling the automated verification of probabilistic programs
  • Concepts and logic for quantitative verification

Teaching

I am currently involved in the following teaching activities:

In the past, I have been involved in the following teaching activities:

Supervision

I am supervising our student research assistants Philipp Schröer and Adrian Gallus (with Tobias Winkler and Benjamin Kaminski). Formerly, I have supervised our student research assistant Tom Biskup.

Moreover, I am supervising or have supervised the following thesis projects:

  • Florian Keßler, On the Decidability of Entailment Checking in Quantitative Separation Logics, Bachelor’s Thesis, 2020, winner of the CS Department Award 2020 (with Thomas Noll and Christoph Matheja).
  • Adrian Gallus, RPrIC3: PrIC3 for Expected Rewards, Bachelor’s Thesis, 2020
  • Marvin Jansen, Decidability and Complexity of Entailment Checking in Quantitative Separation Logic, Master’s Thesis, 2021 (with Ira Fesefeldt and Christoph Matheja)
  • Philipp Schröer, TBA, Master’s Thesis, ongoing work (with Christoph Matheja)

Awards

  • Our paper Generating Functions for Probabilistic Programs (joint work with Lutz Klinkenberg, Benjamin Lucien Kaminski, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Joshua Moerman and Tobias Winkler) has received the best paper award at LOPSTR 2020.
  • I was awarded the Springorum Medal in 2019 for receiving a master’s degree with distinction.
  • Our paper How long, O Bayesian network, will I sample thee? A program analysis perspective on expected sampling times (joint work with Benjamin Kaminski, Joost-Pieter Katoen, and Christoph Matheja) was nominated for the EATCS Best Paper Award at ETAPS 2018.

External Reviewer

Conferences

Publications

2021
DOI fulltext PDF [bibtex]
@article{R2021,
title = {Relatively complete verification of probabilistic programs: an expressive language for expectation-based reasoning},
author = {Kevin Batz and Benjamin Lucien Kaminski and Joost-Pieter Katoen and Christoph Matheja},
publisher = {ACM},
journal = {Proceedings of the ACM on programming languages},
volume = {5},
pages = {pages 39},
type = {Journal Article},
year = {2021},
doi = {10.1145/3434320},
url = { https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/816245},
}×
[issue] 		Kevin Batz, Benjamin Lucien Kaminski, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Christoph Matheja. Relatively complete verification of probabilistic programs: an expressive language for expectation-based reasoning, Proceedings of the ACM on programming languages 5, pages 39, ACM, 2021.
fulltext PDF [bibtex]
@conference{GFPP2021,
title = {Generating Functions for Probabilistic Programs},
author = {Lutz Klinkenberg and Kevin Batz and Benjamin Lucien Kaminski and Joost-Pieter Katoen and Joshua Moerman and Tobias Winkler},
publisher = {Springer},
booktitle = {Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues},
volume = {12561},
pages = {231-248},
type = {Conference Paper},
year = {2021},
url = { https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/807881},
}×
[issue] 		Lutz Klinkenberg, Kevin Batz, Benjamin Lucien Kaminski, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Joshua Moerman, Tobias Winkler. Generating Functions for Probabilistic Programs, 30th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR2020), Volume 12561 of Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues, 231-248, Springer, 2021.
DOI fulltext PDF [bibtex]
@conference{LIAPP2021,
title = {Latticed $k$-Induction with an Application to Probabilistic Programs},
author = {Kevin Batz and Mingshuai Chen and Benjamin Lucien Kaminski and Joost-Pieter Katoen and Christoph Matheja and Philipp Schröer},
publisher = {Springer},
booktitle = {LNCS},
volume = {12760},
pages = {524-549},
type = {Conference Paper},
year = {2021},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-81688-9_25},
url = { https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/822587},
}×
[issue] 		Kevin Batz, Mingshuai Chen, Benjamin Lucien Kaminski, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Christoph Matheja, Philipp Schröer. Latticed $k$-Induction with an Application to Probabilistic Programs, 33rd International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification (CAV 2021), Volume 12760 of LNCS, 524-549, Springer, 2021.
2020
arXiv:2004.14835 [bibtex]
@unpublished{PPDRM2020,
title = {PrIC3: Property Directed Reachability for MDPs},
author = {Kevin Batz and Sebastian Junges and Benjamin Lucien Kaminski and Joost-Pieter Katoen and Christoph Matheja and Philipp Schröer},
type = {Preprint},
year = {2020},
url = { https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14835},
}×
[issue] 		Kevin Batz, Sebastian Junges, Benjamin Lucien Kaminski, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Christoph Matheja, Philipp Schröer. PrIC3: Property Directed Reachability for MDPs, 2020. https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14835
arXiv:2007.06327 [bibtex]
@unpublished{GFPP2020,
title = {Generating Functions for Probabilistic Programs},
author = {Lutz Klinkenberg and Kevin Batz and Benjamin Lucien Kaminski and Joost-Pieter Katoen and Joshua Moerman and Tobias Winkler},
type = {Preprint},
year = {2020},
url = { https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06327},
}×
[issue] 		Lutz Klinkenberg, Kevin Batz, Benjamin Lucien Kaminski, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Joshua Moerman, Tobias Winkler. Generating Functions for Probabilistic Programs, 2020. https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06327
arXiv:2010.14548 [bibtex]
@unpublished{RCVPP2020,
title = {Relatively Complete Verification of Probabilistic Programs},
author = {Kevin Batz and Benjamin Lucien Kaminski and Joost-Pieter Katoen and Christoph Matheja},
pages = {49 Seiten},
type = {Preprint},
year = {2020},
url = { https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14548},
}×
[issue] 		Kevin Batz, Benjamin Lucien Kaminski, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Christoph Matheja. Relatively Complete Verification of Probabilistic Programs, 49 Seiten, 2020. https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14548
DOI fulltext PDF [bibtex]
@conference{PPDRM2020,
title = {PrIC3: Property Directed Reachability for MDPs},
author = {Kevin Batz and Sebastian Junges and Benjamin Lucien Kaminski and Joost-Pieter Katoen and Christoph Matheja and Philipp Schröer},
publisher = {Springer},
booktitle = {LNCS},
volume = {12225},
pages = {512-538},
type = {Conference Paper},
year = {2020},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-53291-8_27},
url = { https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/816242},
}×
[issue] 		Kevin Batz, Sebastian Junges, Benjamin Lucien Kaminski, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Christoph Matheja, Philipp Schröer. PrIC3: Property Directed Reachability for MDPs, 32nd International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV 2020), Volume 12225 of LNCS, 512-538, Springer, 2020.
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