Andreas Schmid

Research Interests

  • Graph Theory

  • Graph Algorithms

  • Approximation Algorithms

Publications

  • A Tight Extremal Bound on the Lovasz Cactus Number in Planar Graphs

with Parinya Chalermsook and Sumedha Uniyal

Proceedings of the 36th Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS'19) (pdf)(Full)

  • Computing Tutte Paths

with Jens M. Schmidt

Proceedings of the 45th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP'18) (pdf)

  • Finding Triangles for Maximum Planar Subgraphs

with Parinya Chalermsook

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference and Workshops on Algorithms and Computation (WALCOM'17)(pdf)

  • Computing 2-Walks in Polynomial Time

with Jens M. Schmidt

Proceedings of the 32nd Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS'15) (pdf)

Journal Version: ACM Transactions on Algorithms (TALG)

Teaching

  • Winter 2016/2017, Teaching Assistant for Algorithms and Data Structures

  • Winter 2015/2016, Teaching Assistant for Approximation Algorithms

  • Winter 2014/2015, Tutor for Algorithms and Data Structures

  • Summer 2014, Tutor for Optimization

  • Summer 2013, Teaching Assistant for Graph Theory

Education

  • November 2018 - November 2019:

Visiting Doctoral Candidate at Aalto University, Espoo, Finnland.

  • August 2017 - November 2017:

Visiting Student Researcher at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, University of California, Berkeley.

  • April 2014 - December 2019:

Ph. D. in Computer Science at the Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany and the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik

Title of PhD Thesis: Plane and Simple: Using Planar Subgraphs for Efficient Algorithms (supervisors: Prof. Dr. Kurt Mehlhorn, Prof. Dr. Parinya Chalermsook) (link)

  • October 2011 - February 2014:

Master Degree in Computer Science at the Universität des Saarlandes

Title of Master's Thesis: 2-Walks in 3-Connected Planar Graphs are Polynomial Time Computable (supervisors: Prof. Dr. Kurt Mehlhorn, Dr. Jens M. Schmidt)