Group Members

The IOL Lab brings together researchers across mathematics, computer science, engineering, and physics. We host numerous visitors and long-term fellows, and welcome inquiries from motivated individuals interested in joining our group.

Researchers

Sebastian PokuttaTU/PR/Dominic Simon
Sebastian Pokutta Lab Head, Professor at TUB, and Vice President of ZIB
Christoph Spiegel
Christoph Spiegel Deputy Lab Head · AI and verification for mathematics
Gábor Braun
Gábor Braun Combinatorics and complexity in optimization
Patrick Gelß
Patrick Gelß Area Lead · Quantum algorithms and tensor methods
Jana Gonnermann-Müller
Jana Gonnermann-Müller Area Lead · Human⁠–⁠AI interaction and AI for social science
Gioni Mexi
Gioni Mexi Area Lead · Mixed-integer programming and solvers
Alejandro Ramos Ramos Quantum noise modeling and optimal control
Karl Welzel
Karl Welzel Nonlinear and mixed-integer optimization
Liding Xu
Liding Xu Mixed-integer nonlinear and global optimization
Max Zimmer
Max Zimmer Area Lead · Efficient deep learning and AI4Science

Administrative Support

Carola Kögler
Carola Kögler Runs the AIS²T office at ZIB
Sybille Mattrisch
Sybille Mattrisch Runs the Applied Optimization office at ZIB
Erik Oor Runs the Mathematical Optimization office at TUB

Doctoral candidates

Samuel Brucker
Samuel Brucker Depth estimation and sensor fusion for driving
Lili Gao
Lili Gao Diffusion models and data synthesis for driving
Mohammed Ghannam
Mohammed Ghannam Branch-and-price and parallel MIP solving
Filippo Ghilotti
Filippo Ghilotti Pseudo-labeling and 3D perception for driving
Jannis Halbey
Jannis Halbey Frank⁠–⁠Wolfe methods and lower bounds
Deborah HendrychLichthelden
Deborah Hendrych Area Lead · MINLP and Frank⁠–⁠Wolfe methods
Diego Hitzges
Diego Hitzges Deep learning for perception and decision-making
Dominik Kamp
Dominik Kamp Reliability and performance of MIP solvers
Kirill Khoruzhii
Kirill Khoruzhii Tensor decompositions and coding theory
Aldo Kiem
Aldo Kiem Flag algebras and extremal combinatorics
Sebastian Knebel Koopman⁠–⁠von Neumann mechanics
Nicolas Leins
Nicolas Leins Human⁠–⁠AI interaction and augmented reality
Ingo Meise
Ingo Meise Ensemble learning and statistical learning theory
Harsha Nelaturu
Harsha Nelaturu Efficient deep learning and model evaluation
Edoardo Palladin
Edoardo Palladin Perception and planning for autonomous driving
Nico Pelleriti
Nico Pelleriti AI agents and computational algebra
Konrad Plato
Konrad Plato Machine learning and real algebraic geometry
Olivia Röhrig Formal proof verification and machine learning
Christophe Roux
Christophe Roux Area Lead · Riemannian optimization and LLM pruning
Tim Siebert
Tim Siebert Higher-order automatic differentiation
Gennesaret Tjusila
Gennesaret Tjusila GPU acceleration and heuristics for MIP
Berkant Turan
Berkant Turan Interpretability and robustness in deep learning
Alonso Urbano
Alonso Urbano Geometric deep learning and symmetry discovery
Moritz Wagner
Moritz Wagner Pruning and sparsity in large language models
Wenjie Xiao
Wenjie Xiao MINLP, first-order methods, and graph isomorphism

Undergraduate and Phase I Students

Cara Bennett
Cara Bennett
Onat Tevfik Bilgili
Onat Tevfik Bilgili Mixed-integer nonlinear optimization
Ahmed Elhiti
Ahmed Elhiti
Muriel Fischer
Muriel Fischer Psychology of human⁠–⁠AI interaction
Lukas Freiling
Lukas Freiling
Varya Geronimus
Varya Geronimus Persona drift in LLM-simulated conversations
Damian Grunert
Damian Grunert
Jacob von Holly-Ponientzietz
Jacob von Holly-Ponientzietz Presolving for mixed-integer programming
Anita Hovanesian
Anita Hovanesian
Moritz Igel
Moritz Igel LLM agents for differentiated instruction
Malte Jackisch
Malte Jackisch
Alexej Jordan
Alexej Jordan
Dominik Kuzinowicz
Dominik Kuzinowicz Convex optimization and symmetry in MIP
Dao Tung Lam
Dao Tung Lam
Xueyuan Lan Nonlinear discrete optimization
Jiasui Li
Jiasui Li Mixed-integer convex optimization
Paul Meinhold
Paul Meinhold
Lennart Neubauer
Lennart Neubauer
Hannah Penz-Matzalik
Hannah Penz-Matzalik
Moritz Rengert
Moritz Rengert
Malika Tokpanova
Malika Tokpanova
Erva Yurtbaş
Erva Yurtbaş

Former researchers

Former research assistants