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I am a PC member of APPROX 2022 (virtual) and SOSA 2023 (Florence, Italy).
I am visiting EPFL in July 2022, participating in the awesome program at the Bernoulli center.
Hausdorff Trimester Program on Discrete Optimization. I am organizing a workshop on Parameterized Complexity & Discrete Optimization with Friedrich Eisenbrand, Fedor Fomin, and Jesper Nederlof. I will be in Bonn from Sep 11 to Oct 9 and again from mid Nov to the end of the program. Drop me an email if you happen to be in Bonn area and want to chat :)
I will be a PC member of SODA, ICALP, WADS, and WAOA 2021. Looking forward to reading one of your great papers :)
I am giving an invited keynote talk at Lorentz Workshop on Fixed Parameter Computational Geometry. May 2020 (moved to May 2021)
I am on SWAT 2020 PC. Submit your papers and go enjoy Faroe Islands!
I am on ICALP 2019 (Track A) program committee. Please submit your excellent papers there!
Dagstuhl's seminar on Parameterized Complexity. January 2019
Reunion Meeting for "Bridging Continuous & Discrete Optimization" at Simons Institute. December 2018.
I am on APPROX 2018 program committee. August 2018.
I am speaking at Parameterized Approximation Algorithms Workshop (PAAW). July 2018.
Invited speaker at Highlights of Algorithms 2018. June 2018.
Flexible Network Design 2018 at University of Maryland. May 2018.
[August 2017] My research in the next 5 years will also be supported by ERC Starting Grant. The total amount is ~1.4M Euro. I will be looking for researchers at all levels (postdocs/doctoral/master) to join the team. If you think your research interest has overlap with mine and want to pursue some challenges together, please drop an e-mail.
[July 2017] Our paper "From Gap-ETH to FPT Inapproximability: Clique, Dominating Set and More" has been accepted to FOCS 2017.
[May 2017] I received the funding from Academy of Finland (Aof) under the Academy Research Fellow (total~900K EUR) funding scheme. The funding will run from September 2017 to August 2022.
I will spend the Fall 2017 semester at Simons Institute on Theory of Computing, Berkeley.