Posted: 10th August 2026

Tamio-Vesa Nakajima has been announced as the winner of the ACP Doctoral Research Award for his DPhil thesis ‘Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problems’ supervised by Professor Standa Živný.

The ACP Doctoral Research Award is given every year by the Association for Constraint Programming to a promising young researcher working in the area of constraint programming who defended their thesis between January and December of the previous two years.

The award was presented in Lisbon, Portugal at the 32nd International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2026), as part of FLOC 2026, the 9th Federated Logic Conference.

Tamio is now a Research Fellow at Marburg University, Germany. Professor Živný has a long association with the ACP Doctoral Research Award, having received it in 2011. His former postdoctoral researcher Clément Carbonnel won the award in 2017, and one of his former DPhil students Peter Fulla was a runner-up in 2020.

You can read more about the award here: https://www.a4cp.org/awards/doctoral-research-award.