The ACP Doctoral Research Award is awarded every year to a promising young researcher working in the area of constraint programming and who defended their thesis between January and December of the previous two years. The award, in the form of a certificate, is presented at the CP conference, where the winning researcher will be invited to give a talk about their PhD thesis. The award includes a cash prize of 500 euros, plus free registration for the conference.
The 2026 call closed on 10 May.
Previous recipients of this award are:
| Year | Recipient | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Tamio-Vesa Nakajima | University of Marburg, Germany |
| 2025 | Ruiwei Wang | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| 2024 | Jayanta Mandi | KU Leuven, Belgium |
| 2023 | Stephan Gocht | Lund University, Sweden |
| 2022 | Hélène Verhaeghe | UCLouvain, Belgium |
| 2021 | Margarita Paz Castro | University of Toronto, Canada |
| 2020 | Jeremias Berg | University of Helsinki, Finland |
| 2019 | Edward Lam | Monash University, Australia |
| 2018 | Ciaran McCreesh | University of Glasgow, UK |
| 2017 | Clément Carbonnel | LAAS-CNRS, France |
| 2016 | Andre Augusto Cire | Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
| 2015 | Jean-Guillaume Fages | Ecole des Mines de Nantes, LINA, CNRS, INRIA, France |
| 2015 | Anastasia Paparrizou | University of Western Macedonia, Greece |
| 2014 | David Bergman | Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
| 2013 | Tias Guns | KU Leuven, Belgium |
| 2012 | Geoffrey Chu | University of Melbourne, Australia |
| 2011 | Stanislav Zivny | Oxford University, UK |
| 2010 | Guido Tack | Saarland University, Germany |
| 2009 | Christopher Jefferson | University of York, UK |
| 2008 | Claude-Guy Quimper | University of Waterloo, Canada |
Honourable Mentions
| Year | Honorable Mention | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Ryo Kuroiwa | National Institute of Informatics, Japan |
| 2025 | Isaac Rudich | Polytechnique Montréal, Canada |
| 2024 | Ruiwei Wang | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| 2023 | Gustav Björdal | Uppsala University, Sweden |
| 2022 | Dimosthenis Tsouros | University of Western Macedonia, Greece |
| 2021 | Joaquín Arias | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain |
| 2020 | Peter Fulla | Oxford University, UK |
| 2019 | Roberto Castañeda Lozano | KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden |
| 2018 | Kuldeep Singh Meel | Rice University, United States |
| 2014 | Yuri Malitsky | Brown University, United States |
| 2013 | Justin Yip | Brown University, United States |
| 2012 | Nina Narodytska | University of New South Wales, Australia |
| 2011 | Michele Lombardi | University of Bologna, Italy |