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Stefan Funke

Prof. Dr.

Head of the Algorithmics Group
FMI
Algorithmik

Universitätsstraße 38
70569 Stuttgart
Germany
Room: 1.111

by appointment via EMail to our secretary

Note: In case you have matters regarding the Prüfungsausschuss (PA) Informatik, please send EMail to pa-inf@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de.

algorithmics, discrete optimization, algorithm engineering, computational geometry, wireless networking, geospatial algorithms

For a list of my publications see here at DBLP or at Google Scholar.

since 03/2010 Full Professor of Computer Science at University of Stuttgart
10/2007 – 02/2010 Full Professor of Computer Science at University of Greifswald
2005 – 2007 Heading Research Group Geometry-guided Design and Analysis of Wireless Sensor Networks within the Max-Planck-Center for Visual Computing and Communication
2004 – 2005 Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University, CS Department
2001 – 2004: Postdoctoral Researcher at Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
2001 PhD in Computer Science at the University of the Saarland / Max-Planck-Institut f. Informatik
Advisors: Edgar Ramos and Kurt Mehlhorn
1993 – 1998 Diploma in Computer Science at the University of the Saarland

2015 Google Faculty Research Award
2014 Best Paper Award at 40th Int. Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB)
2014 Best Paper Award at 37th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI)
2014 Honorable Mention at the 28th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
2012 Google Research Award (Focused Grant Program)
2011 Best Paper Award at ACM SIGSPATIAL Int. Conf on Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL GIS)
2008 SaarLB Forschungspreis (joint with H. Bast)
2007 Heinz-Billing Award for the Advancement of Scientific Computing (joint with H. Bast)
2005 2nd Place in Best Paper Category at ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modelling (ACM SPM)
2002 Otto Hahn Medal of the Max-Planck-Society (Dissertation Award)