Alexander Dobler received the Best Student Paper Award at the 13th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams (DIAGRAMS 2022) in Rome in September 2022 for his paper “On Computing Optimal Linear Diagrams“, co-authored with his PhD advisor Martin Nöllenburg.

Effective as of today, Robert Ganian is promoted to a tenured Associate Professor at the Algorithms and Complexity group. Congratulations, Robert!

Jonas Mayerhofer, Markus Kirchweger, Marc Huber, and Günther Raidl received the best paper award for their work A Beam Search for the Shortest Common Supersequence Problem Guided by an Approximate Expected Length Calculation at the 22nd European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization being held in Madrid, Spain, in April 2022.

Guangping Li successfully defended her PhD thesis “An Algorithmic Study of Practical Map Labeling” on May 13, 2022. Congratulations, Dr. Li!

Guangping was a PhD student in the FWF project “Human-centered Algorithm Engineering” and was supervised by Martin Nöllenburg. Her external thesis reviewers were Kevin Buchin and Christian Schulz. Guangping has already started a postdoc position at TU Dortmund, Germany.

The 28th Annual Graph Drawing Contest, a long running tradition of the graph drawing research community, was held in conjunction with the 29th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2021), hosted in Tübingen from the 14th to the 17th of September, 2021.
The contest is comprised of various categories. In the creative topics participants are provided with network data and tasked to design an informative but at the same time aesthetically pleasing layout of these networks.

In this category TU Wien was represented by two submissions, both of which

Congratulations to Jan Dreier for his LICS 2021 Distinguished Paper Award for his paper Lacon- and Shrub-Decompositions: A New Characterization of First-Order Transductions of Bounded Expansion Classes.

Here is a link to the video of his presentation.

Stefan Szeider and Martin Kronegger gave a lecture on Algorithms and Programming to members of the Austrian Parliament.

The lecture consisted of three parts and concluded with a Q&A session with the MPs and ended with a live programming demonstration.

The Algorithms lecture took place on June 15th, 2021, in the same venue where usually the plenary discussions of the Austrian parliament take place, the “great Redoutensaal,” a beautiful hall located in Vienna’s Hofburg.

This lecture was part of the Faculty of Informatic’s initiative Digitale Kompetenzen (digital competence), consisting of several lectures on

Congratulations to our former students Martin Riedler and Tomas Peitl for receiving this outstanding award of a Promotio Sub Auspiciis Praesidentis Rei Publica (Doctoral graduation under the auspices of the Federal President). Each year, only a handful  of doctoral students from Austria receive this special award, which requires excellent grades throughout secondary school, undergraduate and graduate studies.

We are specially proud that two students from our group receive this honour this year.

The ceremony took place with over year’s delay due to the Covid pandemic.

News post at TU Wien’s website.

By December 1st, 2020, our colleague Martin Nöllenburg has been promoted to Full Professor for Graph and Geometric Algorithms. 

See here 5 Questions with … Martin Nöllenburg from last year.

Congratulations to Martin Kronegger who received a Best Teaching Award 2020 from TU Wien.

The Algorithms and Complexity group is very happy about Martin’s engagement in the Algorithms and Data Structures course, which received a nomination for the Best Distance Learning Award 2020 for its digitalisation of the course during the COVID-19 restrictions in Spring 2020.