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Karl Bringmann

Karl Bringmann is a German theoretical computer scientist. He is currently senior researcher at Max Planck Institute for Informatics.

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Karl Bringmann
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Websitepeople.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~kbringma/

Karl Bringmann is a German theoretical computer scientist. He is currently senior researcher at Max Planck Institute for Informatics.

Biography

Bringmann earned his doctorate from Saarland University under the supervision of Kurt Mehlhorn.

In 2019, Bringmann received the Presburger Award from the European Association of Theoretical Computer Science for his work on lower bounds.1 The same year, he received the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize from the German Research Foundation for his work on fine-grained complexity and a near-linear pseudopolynomial time algorithm for the subset sum problem.2 Furthermore, he was appointed as a professor at Saarland University.3

In March 2025, he was appointed as Full Professor of Theoretical Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science at the ETH Zurich.4

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References

  1. "Presburger Award". European Association for Theoretical Computer Science.
  2. "Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis". German Research Foundation.
  3. "Homepage: Karl Bringmann (Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik)". people.mpi-inf.mpg.de. Retrieved 2025-03-07.
  4. "Twelve professors appointed". ETH Zurich. 2025-03-06. Retrieved 2025-03-07.