Activities, Awards and Fellowships

 

2007: Participation at the Junior Professional Management program, Zentrum für Wissenschaftsmanagement e.V.

 

2007: Research Fellowship “Algorithm Design in Combinatorial Optimization”, TU Berlin

 

2005: Intel ACC Grant, together with Prof. Platzner and Dr. Simon

 

2005: Xilinx Donation

 

2005: Chess program Hydra wins the with 150.000 USD endowed man-machine competition against Super-Grandmaster Michael Adams.

 

2004 – 2005: elected member for the board of the Computer Science Department of the Paderborn University

 

2004, October: Bilbao – Spain. Chess program Hydra becomes team world champion in the Man-vs.-Machine Computer Chess World Team Championship.

 

2004, August: Abu Dhabi – Unites Arabian Emirates. Chess program Hydra beats Shredder clearly in an 8-game match. Since then, Hydra is often denoted to be the strongest chess program of the world. The event resulted in a lot of public interest, e.g. in the Infinity-channel of the UAE television, articles about Hydra in c’t, Chip and related press.

 

2003-2004: elected member in the board of the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing

 

2001: Chess program P.ConNerS is the first chess program that can win an International FIDE-Grandmaster chess tournament. The event caused a lot of public interest in ICCA-Journal, BILD and other newspapers.

 

2001: Award for best PhD thesis in computer science at the Paderborn University

 

1999: Technical coordinator of the 9th ICCA Computer Chess World Championship

 

Since 1994: Organizer of the yearly International Paderborn Computer Chess Championship (IPCCC) with the aim to support the German computer chess community.

 

Projects

 

·        DFG-SPP

Algorithmsche Spieltheorie und ihre Anwendung in der Flugplanung

Project: Algorithmik großer und komplexer Netzwerke
(2005 - )

·        EU-Project

Dynamically Evolving, Large Scale Information Systems (DELIS)

subproject 3
(2004 - )

·        Industry project Hydra

Financed by PAL Computer Systems, Abu Dhabi, UAE
(2003 – 2006)

·        DFG-Sonderforschungsbereich 614

Selbstoptimierende Systeme des Maschinenbaus

subproject A1 – Modellorientierte Selbstoptimierung
(2002 - )

·        EU-Project

Algorithms and Complexity Future Technologies (ALCOM-FT)

Work Package 2 – Networks and Communication

Work Package 4 – generic Methods
(2000-2003)

·        EU-Project

Ubiquitious Personalized Interactive Multimedia TV-Systems and Services (UPTV)
(2000-2003)

·        DFG-SPP

Efficient Algorithms for Discrete Problems and their Applications

Project: Sequential and Distributed Selective Tree-Search Algorithms
(1995-2000)