
- lutz.klinkenberg at cs.rwth-aachen.de
- Address
- Room 4203
Ahornstraße 55
D-52074 Aachen - Phone
- +49 241 80 21221
I was a former PhD Student at the Software Modeling and Verification Group headed by Professor J.-P. Katoen. I successfully finished my PhD at June 20th 2025.
Teaching
I was/am currently involved in the following teaching activities:
Seminars
- Proseminar Introduction to Program Analysis (SS20)
- Proseminar Introduction to Program Analysis (SS21)
- Seminar Formal Verification meets Machine Learning (WS21/22)
- Seminar Advanced Topics in Formal Semantics (WS21/22)
- Seminar Probabilistic Programming (WS22/23)
Courses
- Model Checking (WS19/20)
- Probabilistic Programming (WS20/21)
- Probabilistic Programming (WS22/23)
- Modeling and Verification of Probabilistic Systems (SS25)
PhD Thesis
My dissertation is available online:

Supervised Students:
- Denise Fromme (Master Thesis)
- Thomas Vogt (Master Thesis)
- Christian Blumenthal (Master Thesis)
- Alexander Salostowitz (Bachelor Thesis)
| 2024 | |
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Lutz Klinkenberg, Christian Blumenthal, , Darion Haase, Joost-Pieter Katoen. Exact Bayesian Inference for Loopy Probabilistic Programs using Generating Functions, Proceedings of the ACM on programming languages 8 (OOPSLA1), pages 127, ACM, 2024. |
| 2023 | |
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Lutz Klinkenberg, Tobias Winkler, Mingshuai Chen, Joost-Pieter Katoen. Exact Probabilistic Inference Using Generating Functions, 3 Seiten, 2023. https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.00513 |
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Lutz Klinkenberg, Christian Blumenthal, , Darion Haase, Joost-Pieter Katoen. Exact Bayesian Inference for Loopy Probabilistic Programs using Generating Functions, 54 Seiten, 2023. https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.07314 |
| 2022 | |
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Mingshuai Chen, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Lutz Klinkenberg, Tobias Winkler. Does a Program Yield the Right Distribution? Verifying Probabilistic Programs via Generating Functions, 34. International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV 2022), Volume 13371 of LNCS, 79-101, Springer, 2022. |
| 2021 | |
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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. |
| 2020 | |
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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 |
Awards
LOPSTR20: The article “Generating Functions for Probabilistic Programs” has won the best paper award.