Welcome to our Feodor Lynen Fellow Dr. Frank Sommer

On June 1, 2024, Dr. Frank Sommer has joined the Algorithms and Complexity group with a prestigious Feodor Lynen postdoc fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Frank has received his PhD in 2022 from Philipps-Universität Marburg in Germany, and has worked as a postdoc researcher at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena in Germany. In his one-year project at TU Wien he will investigate machine learning models such as decision trees and neural networks by exploiting specific input structures leading to input parameters which can be assumed to be small in practice. Together with