We’re delighted to announce that Alexander Beiser has received an Andreas Dieberger-Peter Skalicky Stipend!

The stipend, endowed with €4,000, is aimed at supporting PhD researchers in energy and environment, medical engineering, or information and communication technology. It is intended to provide financial assistance for a range of scholarly activities, including the publication of scientific research, participation in subject-specific conferences, and the coverage of essential expenses related to the research process, including costs associated with research stays. A jury of academic experts from TU Wien carefully evaluates the applications and selects the recipients based on a combination of general and scientific criteria, including the proposed methodology’s clarity and robustness, the degree of innovation demonstrated in the research project, and its overall scientific relevance and potential impact.

Congratulations to Alexander on this excellent achievement!

About Alexander Beiser

Alexander is a PhD student at TU Wien Informatics, developing neurosymbolic and explainable Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Air Traffic Management (ATM). Alexander is supervised by Stefan Woltran and co-director of TU Wien’s Center for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (CAIML) Nysret Musliu in collaboration with Frequentis. His work aims to integrate trustworthy AI into ATM to boost efficiency and safety amid rising traffic and staffing constraints. Alexander holds a BSc in Software & Information Engineering (2023) and an MSc in Logic & Computation (2025) from TU Wien. Before his PhD, he worked on Answer Set Programming (ASP) and held research roles at the University of Potsdam (2022, 2023) and TU Wien’s Databases and Artificial Intelligence group. In 2024, he spent a semester at EPFL (Lausanne) and was selected for Summer@EPFL 2024, a highly competitive research fellowship. He has presented his work at IJCAI (2024) and has publications at top-tier venues in AI, including IJCAI’24 and ICLP’24, with accepted papers for ICLP’25 and KR’25. He received merit-based scholarships from TU Wien (2020–2024) and took part in several summer/winter schools, such as the Engage 2 Winter School 2025 (Belgrade), BilAI Summer School 2025 (Klagenfurt), or the Digital Humanism Summer School 2022 (Vienna).

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