ECOOP 2025 30 June - 4 July 2025 Bergen, Norway Congratulations to Amir Shaikhha who has been awarded the Dahl-Nygaard Junior prize 2025. Founded in 2004 by the Association Internationale Pour les Technologies Objets (AITO), he Dahl-Nygaard Prizes are the most esteemed honors in object-oriented programming. The prizes are named in honor of the pioneering visionaries Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard, who created the first object-oriented programming language. One prize is awarded to a junior researcher (who has obtained the PhD degree at most 7 years before the award year, excluding any parental leave), and one prize to a senior researcher. Previous recipients of this prize were from UC Berkley (2024) and CMU (2023). Useful links ECOOP 2025Amir Shaikhha personal page Amir Shaikhha is known for his pioneering interdisciplinary work, spanning programming language design, compiler construction, and data management for AI and machine learning. His work is deeply grounded in theoretical foundations and has already made a substantial impact on both the PL and database communities. His early career achievements are exceptional: his PhD thesis, which received both a Google award and a thesis distinction award, set a remarkably high standard from the outset. His consistent record of high-quality publications in the most prestigious PL and database venues (including ECOOP) further attests to his research independence. His work has also garnered best paper, most reproducible, and most influential paper awards as well as best reviewer award. ECOOP '25 This article was published on 2025-05-08
