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Contact Information

Name Felix Gigler
Professional Title PhD Candidate · Junior Scientist
Email felix.gigler@tuwien.ac.at

Professional Summary

PhD candidate in Automated Reasoning at TU Wien, in collaboration with AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, where I also work as a Junior Scientist. My research is in formal methods and autonomous systems: specification languages, sampling algorithms for formal formalisms, and scenario-based testing of autonomous vehicles.

Experience

  • 2025 - present

    Vienna, Austria

    PhD Candidate in Automated Reasoning
    TU Wien
    In collaboration with AIT Austrian Institute of Technology.
    • Uniform sampling and volumetry for timed regular expressions.
    • Declarative, scenario-based testing of autonomous driving functions.
  • 2022 - present

    Vienna, Austria

    Junior Scientist
    AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
    • Virtual testing strategies for autonomous vehicle controllers.
    • Tooling for state-of-the-art scenario description languages (OpenSCENARIO 2.1 DSL).
    • Plan synthesis with answer-set programming for scenario-based testing.
  • 2024

    Grenoble, France

    Research Intern
    Université Grenoble Alpes (VERIMAG)
    • Volumetry and uniform sampling algorithms for timed regular expressions.
    • Implementation of VolTRE, a library for uniform sampling of TRE.
  • 2021 - 2022

    Vienna, Austria

    Teaching Assistant
    TU Wien
    • Teaching assistant for three courses on mathematical modeling and simulation.
    • Developed MATLAB material on ODE solvers.
    • Supervised student projects on discrete-event, agent-based and cellular-automata modeling.
  • 2020 - 2021

    Vienna, Austria

    Research Freelancer
    AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
    • Sampling strategies for shape expressions; open-source tool ShapEx.
    • Formal verification research on specification languages for real-valued time series.
    • Co-authored two peer-reviewed papers on shape expressions.
  • 2019

    Vienna, Austria

    Research Intern
    AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
    • ANTLR4 parser for the specification language shape expressions.
    • Prototype generating training data for a learned time-series monitor.

Education

  • 2022 - 2025

    Vienna, Austria

    MSc
    TU Wien
    Logic and Computation
    • Thesis: Uniform sampling of timed regular expressions.
  • 2019 - 2020

    Lyngby, Denmark

    Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
    Exchange semester (Erasmus+)
  • 2016 - 2021

    Vienna, Austria

    BSc
    TU Wien
    Technical Mathematics

Awards

  • 2026
    Best Paper Award Nomination
    HSCC 2026, CPS Week

    Nominated in the Systems and Applications track for Declarative Scenario-based Testing with RoadLogic, Saint-Malo, France.

  • 2022
    Best Creative Lab Idea Award
    CPS Summer School

    Awarded for the RAVYOLO tool pitch at the Creative Lab, Pula, Sardinia.

Skills

Programming: Python, MATLAB, ANTLR4, C/C++, R
Methods: Formal methods, answer-set programming, modeling & simulation, MCMC sampling
Tools: Git, LaTeX, Markdown, Docker

Languages

German : Native speaker
English : Full working proficiency