CV

Research Interests

  • Algorithms, optimization, and game theory. Specific interests include linear programming, interior point methods, convex optimization, combinatorial optimization, and circuit geometry of polytopes.

Positions

  • since 2024
    Assistant Professor in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research (IEOR)
    Columbia University, New York City, NY
  • 2022 - 2024
    Beerman Postdoctoral Fellow
    Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
    • Joint affiliations with ISyE and the College of Computing.
  • Fall 2023
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    University of California, Berkeley, CA
    • Long Term Participant, program on Data Structures and Optimization for Fast Algorithms at the Simons Institute.
  • Spring 2023
    Postdoctoral Fellow
    Brown University (ICERM), Providence, RI
    • Program: Discrete Optimization: Mathematics, Algorithms, and Computation.

Industry & Other

  • 2018
    Visiting Associate
    The Boston Consulting Group, Munich, Germany
  • 2018
    Junior Consultant
    TNG Technology Consulting, Munich, Germany
  • 2014 - 2017
    Research Assistant
    Research Institute for Discrete Mathematics, Bonn, Germany

Education

  • 2018 - 2022
    PhD in Mathematics
    London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK
    • Supervisor: László Végh.
    • Thesis: Exact Linear Programming: Circuits, Curvature, and Diameter.
  • 2012 - 2017
    MSc in Mathematics
    University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
    • Thesis: Algorithms for Routing and Buffer Insertion. GPA: 4.0/4.0.

Honors & Awards

  • Oct 2024
    Richard Rado Prize
    German Mathematical Society, TU Berlin
    • Biennial prize for the best dissertation in Discrete Mathematics.
  • Oct 2023
    Runner-Up for The Doctoral Award
    The Operational Research Society (UK)
  • Jul 2023
    PhD Prize
    Department of Mathematics, London School of Economics
  • Sep 2020
    Dodu Prize — Best Talk of a Young Researcher
    SMAI-MODE, Université Paris-Saclay

Teaching

  • 2025 - 2026
    Course Instructor
    Columbia University
    • Advanced Optimization (IEOR 3609), Spring 2025, 2026
    • Convex Optimization (EEOR 6616), Spring 2026
    • Fast Algorithms for Linear Programs (IEOR 8100), Spring 2025
  • 2018 - 2022
    Teaching Assistant
    London School of Economics
    • Reinforcement Learning — TA & joint course development, 2022
    • Foundations of Machine Learning — TA & joint course development, 2021, 2022
    • Algorithms and Programming, 2020
    • Programming in C++, 2019
    • Operational Research Methods, 2019
    • Further Mathematical Methods, 2018
  • 2013 - 2016
    Teaching Assistant
    University of Bonn
    • Combinatorics, Graphs and Matroids, 2016
    • Calculus, 2013

Service

  • since 2025
    Seminar Organization
    Co-organizer, IEOR-DRO Seminar, Columbia University
  • 2025, 2026
    PhD Admissions Committee
    IEOR Department, Columbia University
  • Program Committees
    SODA 2025
  • Reviewing
    • Conferences: FOCS, ICALP, IPCO, ISAAC, SODA, STOC.
    • Journals: Discrete Optimization, Journal of the ACM, Mathematics of Operations Research, Networks, SIAM Journal on Optimization.