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 the semantics of (heap-manipulating) probabilistic programs as well as techniques and calculi enabling their (preferably automated) verification. Moreover, I have co-developed Weighted Programming — a programming paradigm for specifying mathematical models.

You can find me on dblp and Google Scholar.

Teaching

I am currently involved in the following teaching activities:

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

Supervision

I have supervised our student research assistants Philipp Schröer, Tom Biskup, and Adrian Gallus.

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, winner of the CS Department Award 2021 (with Ira Fesefeldt and Christoph Matheja)
  • Philipp Schröer, A Deductive Verifier for Probabilistic Programs, Master’s Thesis, 2022 (with Benjamin Kaminski and Christoph Matheja)
  • Ben Sturgis, TBA, Bachelor’s Thesis, ongoing work (with Tobias Winkler)
  • Tom Biskup, TBA, Master’s Thesis, ongoing work (with Tobias Winkler)

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

2022
DOI fulltext PDF [bibtex]
@conference{FECQSL2022,
title = {Foundations for Entailment Checking in Quantitative Separation Logic},
author = {Kevin Batz and Ira Justus Fesefeldt and Marvin Jansen and Joost-Pieter Katoen and Florian Keßler and Christoph Matheja and Thomas Noll},
publisher = {Springer},
booktitle = {LNCS},
volume = {13240},
pages = {57-84},
type = {Conference Paper},
year = {2022},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-99336-8_3},
url = { https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/843799},
}×
[issue] 		Kevin Batz, Ira Justus Fesefeldt, Marvin Jansen, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Florian Keßler, Christoph Matheja, Thomas Noll. Foundations for Entailment Checking in Quantitative Separation Logic, 31. European Symposium on Programming (ESOP 2022), Volume 13240 of LNCS, 57-84, Springer, 2022.
DOI fulltext PDF [bibtex]
@article{W2022,
title = {Weighted programming: a programming paradigm for specifying mathematical models},
author = {Kevin Batz and Adrian Gallus and Benjamin Lucien Kaminski and Joost-Pieter Katoen and Tobias Winkler},
publisher = {ACM},
journal = {Proceedings of the ACM on programming languages},
pages = {pages 66},
type = {Journal Article},
year = {2022},
doi = {10.1145/3527310},
url = { https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/845157},
}×
[issue] 		Kevin Batz, Adrian Gallus, Benjamin Lucien Kaminski, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Tobias Winkler. Weighted programming: a programming paradigm for specifying mathematical models, Proceedings of the ACM on programming languages, pages 66, ACM, 2022.
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, 30. International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2020), Volume 12561 of Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues, 231-248, Springer, 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.
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, 33. International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification (CAV 2021), Volume 12760 of LNCS, 524-549, Springer, 2021.
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