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: pokuttazib.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

Mathieu Besançon

Postdoc, joined January 2021
email: besanconzib.de
web: https://matbesancon.github.io

MSc in Process Engineering, 2016, Université de Technologie de Compiègne
Joint PhD in Mathematics & Computer Science, 2020, Polytechnique Montréal & École Centrale de Lille

Gábor Braun

Postdoc, joined January 2020
email: braungb88gmail.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

Gabriele Iommazzo

Postdoc, joined Spring 2022
email: iommazzozib.de

MSc in Business Informatics and Data Science, Università di Pisa, 2017
Joint Ph.D. in Mathematics and Computer Science, École Polytechnique Paris and Università di Pisa, 2021

David Martínez-Rubio

Postdoc, joined January 2022
email: martinez-rubiozib.de
web: https://damaru2.github.io

BSc in Mathematics and in Computer Science, Complutense University of Madrid
MSc in Mathematics and Foundations of Computer Science, University of Oxford
PhD in Computer Science with Varun Kanade and Patrick Rebeschini, University of Oxford

Kartikey Sharma

Postdoc, Group Head FATE, joined Spring 2020
email: kartikeyrinwagmail.com
web: https://kartikeyrinwa.github.io/

B.Tech Process Engineering, IIT Roorkee
MSc in Industrial Engineering, Northwestern University
PhD with Omid Nohadani, Northwestern University

Christoph Spiegel

Postdoc, Group Head ICOL, joined Summer 2020
email: christoph.spiegelfu-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

Zev Woodstock

Postdoc, joined January 2022
email: woodstockzib.de
web: https://zevwoodstock.github.io/

MSc in Applied Mathematics, North Carolina State University
PhD in Mathematics with Patrick Combettes, North Carolina State University

Christoph Graczyk

PhD Student in Mathematics, joined Fall 2020
email: graczykzib.de

BSc in Mathematics in Finance and Industry, TU Braunschweig
MSc in Mathematics in Finance and Industry, TU Braunschweig

Sebastian Knebel

PhD Student in Mathematics, joined Spring 2022
email: knebelzib.de

BSc in Mathematics, FU Berlin
Diplom in Applied Mechanics, TU Dresden

Felix Prause

PhD Student in Mathematics, joined Summer 2020
email: prausezib.de

Co-Advisor: Prof. Dr. Ralf Borndörfer
BSc in Mathematics, TU Berlin
MSc in Mathematics, TU Berlin

Christophe Roux

PhD Student in Mathematics, joined Fall 2021
email: rouxzib.de
web: http://christopheroux.de

BSc in Physical Engineering, TU Berlin
MSc in Scientific Computing, TU Berlin

Shpresim Sadiku

PhD Student in Mathematics, joined Fall 2020
email: shpresim.ssgmail.com
web: https://www.shpresimsadiku.com/

BSc in Mathematics, University of Tirana
MSc in Mathematics in Data Science, TU Munich

Arwed Steuer

PhD Student in Mathematics, joined Spring 2022
email: steuerzib.de

BSc in Mathematics, University of Tübingen
MSc in Mathematics, University of Tübingen

Berkant Turan

PhD Student, joined Summer 2022”
email: turanzib.de

BSc in Engineering Science, TU Berlin
MSc in Scientific Computing, TU Berlin

Elias Wirth

PhD Student in Mathematics, joined Summer 2020
email: wirthzib.de
web: https://www.wirthelias.com

BSc in Mathematics, University of Bern
MSc in Mathematics, ETH Zürich

Max Zimmer

PhD Student in Mathematics, joined Summer 2020
email: zimmerzib.de

BSc in Mathematics, TU Berlin
MSc in Mathematics, TU Berlin

Jonathan Geuter

MSc Student in Mathematics at TU Berlin, joined Spring 2021
email: geuterzib.de

Garam Kim

MSc student in Scientific Computing (TU Berlin), joined Summer 2021
email: garamzib.de

BSc in Mathematics, Pusan National University
MSc in Applied Mathematics, Pusan National University

Elias Schecke

MSc Student in Mathematics (TU Berlin), joined Summer 2021
email: scheckezib.de

Anant Rajeev Talasikar

MSc Student in Scientific Computing (TU Berlin), joined Spring 2022
email: talasikarzib.de.

BSc in Mechanical Engineering, University of Mumbai

Daniel Viladrich

MSc Student in Technomathematics (TU Berlin), joined October 2021
email: daniel.viladrich.hgmail.com

BSc in Physics and Mathematics, UAB, Barcelona

Maria Bulychev

BSc Student in Mathematical Economics (TU Berlin), joined Spring 2021
email: maria.bulychevoutlook.de

Ingo Meise

BSc Student in Mathematics, joined Summer 2020
email: meiseingogmail.com

Alumni

Francisco Criado

Role: Postdoc, March 2021 till August 2022

Hoang Pham

Role: MSc Student in Economical Mathematics, joined Summer 2020

Felix Huber

Role: MSc Student in Industrial Engineering, Fall 2020 till Spring 2022

Sergi Andreu

Role: MSc Student in Scientific Computing (TU Berlin), joined Fall 2020

Thomas Kerdreux

Role: Postdoc, joined November 2020
web: http://www.human-machine.art/

Alejandro Carderera

Graduated December 2021
Role: PhD Student in Machine Learning (GT), started Fall 2018
web: https://alejandro-carderera.github.io/

Max-Georg Schorr

Role: PhD Student in Mathematics, joined Summer 2020

Cyrille Combettes

Graduated May 2021, now Postdoctoral Researcher with Jérôme Bolte
Role: PhD Student in Machine Learning (GT), joined Fall 2018
web: https://cyrillewcombettes.github.io/

Alfredo Torrico Palacios

Graduated May 2019, now Postdoctoral Researcher in the MAGI, Polytechnique Montréal group of Andrea Lodi
Role: PhD student in Operations Research (GT)
web: https://sites.google.com/view/atorrico

Aurko Roy

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

Daniel Zink

Graduated May 2017, now Data Scientist at Google
Role: PhD student in ACO, GT

Jeff Pavelka

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

Arefin Huq

Graduated May 2016, now Research Engineer at Google Research
Role: 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 Chile
Role: 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

Feliks Nüske, 2022 Fall
Vladimir Kolmogorov, Summer 2022
Hiroshi Kera, Summer 2022
Karen Aardal, Summer 2022
Vijay Vazirani, Summer 2022
Lorenz T. (Larry) Biegler, Summer 2022
Dr. Haoxiang Yang, Summer 2022
Dr Vu Nguyen, Summer 2022
Jonathan Eckstein, Summer 2022
David Steurer, Summer 2022
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.