Group Members
We are looking for Postdocs, PhD students, and Master students to join (see openings) !
Current members

Sebastian Pokutta
Full Professor @ TU Berlin
Vice President @ Zuse Institute Berlin
email: pokutta@zib.de
web: http://www.pokutta.com/
- Diploma in Mathematics (minor: in Computer Science), University of Duisburg-Essen
- PhD with Rüdiger Göbel, University of Duisburg-Essen
- Postdoc MIT, TUD, FAU

Gábor Braun
Postdoc, started Jan 2020
email: braungb88@gmail.com
web: https://www.renyi.hu/~braung/
- MSc in Mathematics (minor: in English-Hungarian technical translator), Eötvös Loránd University
- PhD with Rüdiger Göbel, University of Duisburg-Essen
- Postdoc UDE, University of Leipzig, Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Georgia Tech

Thomas Kerdreux
Postdoc, started Nov 2020
email: thomaskerdreux@gmail.com
web: http://www.human-machine.art/
- Graduated from Ecole Polytechnique, France
- PhD in Mathematics with Alexandre d’Aspremont, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris & INRIA

Kartikey Sharma
Postdoc, Group Head FATE, started Spring 2020
email: kartikeyrinwa@gmail.com
web: http://users.iems.northwestern.edu/~ksl322/
- B.Tech Process Engineering, IIT Roorkee
- MSc in Industrial Engineering, Northwestern University
- PhD with Omid Nohadani, Northwestern University

Christoph Spiegel
Postdoc, Group Head ICOL, started Summer 2020
email: christoph.spiegel@fu-berlin.de
web: http://www.christophspiegel.berlin/
- BSc in Mathematics, Freie Universität Berlin
- MSc in Mathematics, Freie Universität Berlin and Berlin Mathematical School
- PhD in Mathematics with Juanjo Rué and Oriol Serra, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Maria Bulychev
BSc Student in Mathematical Economics (TU), started Spring 2021
email: maria.bulychev@outlook.de

Alejandro Carderera
PhD Student in Machine Learning (GT), started Fall 2018
email: alejandro.carderera@gatech.edu
web: https://alejandro-carderera.github.io/
- BSc in Industrial Engineering, 2014, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
- MSc in Applied Physics, 2016, Cornell University

Cyrille Combettes
PhD Student in Machine Learning (GT), started Fall 2018
email: cyrille@gatech.edu
web: https://cyrillewcombettes.github.io/
- MSc in Applied Mathematics, École Centrale Paris
- Master of Business Analytics, MIT

Christoph Graczyk
PhD Student in Mathematics, started in Fall 2020
email: graczyk@zib.de
- BSc in Mathematics in Finance and Industry, TU Braunschweig
- MSc in Mathematics in Finance and Industry, TU Braunschweig

Felix Prause
PhD Student in Mathematics, started Summer 2020
email: prause@zib.de
- Co-Advisor(s): Prof. Dr. Ralf Borndörfer
- BSc in Mathematics, TU Berlin
- MSc in Mathematics, TU Berlin

Shpresim Sadiku
PhD Student in Mathematics, started Fall 2020
email: shpresim.ss@gmail.com
web: https://www.shpresimsadiku.com/
- BSc in Mathematics, University of Tirana
- MSc in Mathematics in Data Science, TU Munich

Max-Georg Schorr
PhD Student in Mathematics, started Summer 2020
email: max.schorr@gmx.de
- BSc in Mathematics in Finance and Industry, TU Braunschweig
- MSc in Mathematics in Finance and Industry, TU Braunschweig

Boro Sofranac
PhD Student in Computer Science, started Spring 2020
email: sofranac@zib.de
- Co-Advisor(s): Dr. Ambros Gleixner
- BSc Mechanical Engineering, 2015, University of Montenegro
- MSc Computational Science and Engineering, 2018, Technical University Munich

Elias Wirth
PhD Student in Mathematics, started Summer 2020
email: wirth@zib.de
web: https://www.wirthelias.com
- BSc in Mathematics, University of Bern
- MSc in Mathematics, ETH Zürich

Sergi Andreu
Msc Student in Scientific Computing (TU Berlin), started Fall 2020
email: andreu_boix@zib.de
- Bsc in Physics, Autonomous University of Barcelona
- Msc in Mathematics, Autonomous University of Madrid

Felix Huber
Msc Student in Industrial Engineering, started Fall 2020
email: huber_felix@gmx.net
- Bsc in Industrial Engineering, TU Berlin

Hoang Pham
MSc Student in Economical Mathematics, started Summer 2020
email: hoang.pham@zib.de
- BSc in Economical Mathematics, TU Berlin

Max Zimmer
MSc Student in Mathematics, BA Student in Philosophy, started Summer 2020
email: zimmer@zib.de
- BSc in Mathematics, TU Berlin

Ingo Meise
BSc Student in Mathematics, started Summer 2020
email: meiseingo@gmail.com
Alumni

Alfredo Torrico Palacios
Graduated May 2019, now Postdoctoral Researcher in the MAGI, Polytechnique Montréal group of Andrea LodiRole: PhD student in Operations Research, GT
web: https://sites.google.com/view/atorrico

Aurko Roy
Graduated May 2017, now Research Scientist at Google ResearchRole: PhD student in ACO, GT
web: https://sites.google.com/site/royaurko/home

Daniel Zink
Graduated May 2017, now Data Scientist at GoogleRole: PhD student in ACO, GT

Jeff Pavelka
Graduated May 2017, now Data Scientist at Macy’s Systems and TechnologyRole: PhD student in Operations Research, GT

Arefin Huq
Graduated May 2016, now Research Engineer at Google ResearchRole: PhD student in Computer Science, GT

Cristóbal Guzmán
Graduated May 2015, now Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Engineering School of Universidad Católica de ChileRole: PhD student in ACO, GT
web: https://sites.google.com/view/cguzman/
Lab visitors
We host several visitors throughout the year to discuss research and present their work. If you want to meet any of the visitors please send an email.
Recent and upcoming visitors:
- Frauke Liers, Fall 2020
- Thomas Kerdreux, Summer 2020
- Antoine Deza, Summer 2020
- Antoine Prouvost, Spring 2020 (postponed due to COVID-19)
- Gonzalo Muñoz, Spring 2020
- Thomas Kerdreux, Spring 2020
- Sebastian Tschuppik, Fall 2019, Spring 2020
- Ariel Liebmann, Fall 2019
- Andreas Bärmann, Fall 2019
- Masashi Sugiyama, Fall 2019
Administrative Support
Antje Schulz is helping us at TU Berlin and Heike Balluneit and Sybille Mattrisch are helping us at ZIB with administration.