07 April 2025

Dominik Drexler, who recently received his PhD at the Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA), is awarded the Lawson Scholarship for excellent achievements in internationalisation, international contacts and international exchange at IDA.

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Zebo Peng, Dominik Drexler and Adrian Lawson.

Six years ago, Harold "Bud" Lawson founded the “Lawson Scholarship” under the Linköping University Jubilee Foundation, to encourage international exchange among the PhD students at IDA and increase international contacts at the department. The intention is to encourage excellent performance and provide an opportunity for extended international exchange early in the career of a researcher. IDA's departmental board decides on the recipients and the prize, based on the recommendation from the selection committee.

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Adrian Lawson delivers the certificates.

Scholarship for 2024

The scholarship for 2024 is awarded to Dominik Drexler for his outstanding research in integrating learning and artificial intelligence (AI) planning, his excellent contributions to software engineering for AI, and his strong record of publications at international conferences. Notably, his open-source software library is used by international research groups and he won the optimal planning track in the International Planning Competition 2023.

The scholarship recipient was officially announced by Zebo Peng, Deputy Head of IDA at IDA’s information meeting on March 26, 2025. Adrian Lawson, Bud's son, delivered the award certificates to the winner. The prize is SEK 10 000.

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