Research

I study the mathematical foundations of algorithms for hard problems. I do so mainly in the fine-grained setting.

This includes problems such as finding long self-avoiding paths in networks, as well as more general pattern-detection problems. The underlying mathematical questions that arise can be unified under the umbrella of discrete convolution operations, and cover a broad range of fundamental topics, such as exterior algebras, Waring decompositions, polyhedral geometry and tropical convolutions.

For my research, I have received the best paper award of IPEC 2016 for a joint work with Holger Dell and Marc Roth, and the best student paper award of ESA 2019 for some results from my thesis. 

You can have a look at my publications on DBLP and Google Scholar.