2018 PhD of the Year awarded to SupWiz CTO
5th of November 2018
Ground-breaking research empowers the SupWiz AI Platform for Customer Service and Support
The PhD prizes awarded by the Faculty of Science at University of Copenhagen, have been awarded since 2014 as a tribute to excellent and rewarding PhD-projects completed during the preceding year.
A big congratulations to Mathias for being awarded PhD of the Year.
Mathias' PhD dissertation deals with labeling schemes and graph algorithms, both of which are categorized in the field of algorithms and hash functions, positioned in the interface between randomness in calculations and algorithms.
Among others, the background for the award is the article about "Optimal Induced Universal Graphs and Adjacency Labeling for Trees." as well as the article "Linear Hashing Is Awesome."
The first article was admitted to FOCS and also published in the journal JACM, which is the most prestigious journal in the field of theoretical computer science and publishes only about 50 articles per year
The second articles was acclaimed as being among the 20 best results in algorithms at the conference HALG 2016, and in addition was invited to the journal SICOMP.
At the Department of Computer Science in Copenhagen Mathias has built a track record as a popular lecturer with visiting high school students.