Curriculum Vitae

Since November 2018

• Software engineer at Google (Zurich, Switzerland)
• Providing infrastructure technologies and services.

February 2018 - October 2018

• Software engineer at Oculus (Zurich, Switzerland)
• Tracking technology for the Oculus Quest and the Oculus Rift S.

May 2016 - January 2018

• Software engineer at Dectris (Baden, Switzerland)
• Data acquisition pipeline with up to 160GB/s on a single server.

March 2014 - August 2015

• PostDoc in the working group of Maria Grazia Speranza at the University of Brescia (Brescia, Italy)
• Early Postdoc.Mobility fellowship by the Swiss National Science Foundation
• Affiliated to the University of Lugano (Lugano, Switzerland) and the University of Brescia (Brescia, Italiy)

August 2008 - September 2013

• PhD student at the University of Lugano (Lugano, Switzerland)
• The thesis with the title "Stochastic Combinatorial Optimization - From Theory to Practice" is available for download on the publications page

January 2007 - July 2008

• Scientific staff member / Research assistant at the FernUniversität in Hagen (Hagen, Germany)

Since October 2004

• Mathematics studies at the Technical University of Dortmund (Dortmund, Germany) and the FernUniversität in Hagen (Hagen, Germany)
• Interrupted during my time as a PhD student
• About to finish with a diploma (a German degree, similar to a master's degree)

October 2002 - November 2006

• Computer Science studies at the Technical University of Dortmund (Dortmund, Germany)
• Finished with obtaining a diploma (a German degree, similar to a master's degree)
• The thesis is entitled "Analyse von Evolutionären Algorithmen für das Longest Common Subsequence Problem" (in German language) which translates to "Analysis of Evolutionary Algorithms for the Longest Common Subsequence Problem"; the main results have been published in a conference paper and a journal article (see the publications page for more details)