Dr Mark Batty has won the 2015 John C Reynolds Doctoral Dissertation Award. This prestigious prize is presented annually to the author of an outstanding doctoral dissertation in the area of Programming Languages from submissions received globally.

Mark, who is joined the School of Computing as a Lecturer in March 2015, completed his dissertation titled The C11 and C++11 Concurrency Model while at the University of Cambridge.

The dissertation award is given by ACM SIGPLAN, a special interest group of ACM that focuses on programming languages. In particular, SIGPLAN explores the design, implementation, theory, and efficient use of programming languages and associated tools.

The selection committee for the award consists of leading academics and industry leaders in computing.

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