- 2024: Mikołaj Bojańczyk, University of Warsaw, Poland
- 2023: Moshe Y. Vardi, Rice University, Houston, Texas, U.S.A.
- 2022: Juhani Karhumäki, University of Turku, Finland
- 2021: Suspended because of the pandemic
- 2020 (given in DLT 2021):
Joël Ouaknine, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany / University of Oxford, United Kingdom
James Worrell, University of Oxford, United Kingdom - 2019: Artur Jeż, University of Wrocław, Poland
- 2018: Jean-Éric Pin, University Paris-Diderot, Paris, France
