He has been involved in several projects such as BARC (Basic Algorithm Research Copenhagen) and Providentia. He has served on the program committees of numerous international conferences, including ICALP 2002, SWAT 2006, ICALP 2006, and many more. He is also an associate editor of the SIAM Journal on Computing and the steering committee chair of the European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA).
Research Experience
From January 2019 to December 2020, he was a visiting faculty researcher at Google Research. Currently, he supervises PhD students including Sia Sejer, Lukas Retschmeier, Joel Andersson, and Johanna Düngler (co-supervised with Amartya Sanyal). Graduated PhD students include Christian Worm Mortensen, Milan Ruzic, Rasmus Resen Amossen, and others.
Background
Professor in the Algorithms and Complexity section of the computer science department at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, an ACM Fellow, and a core researcher at the BARC center for basic algorithms research. His scientific interests are within algorithms and data structures, with an emphasis on big data, information retrieval, the role of randomness in computing, databases and knowledge discovery, and more recently on differential privacy.
Miscellany
Outside of work, he spends most of his time with his wonderful family.