Sebastian Wild

Professor of Theoretical Computer Science
Head of Algorithms Group
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Marburg

Senior Lecturer
School of Computer Science and Informatics
University of Liverpool

Phone: +49 6421 28-21525
Office: Room 05D16, Mehrzweckgebäude, Hans-Meerwein-Straße 6
Email: wild at informatik.uni-marburg.de or liverpool.ac.uk
Postal:  Philipps-Universität Marburg, FB 12, Campus Lahnberge, 35032 Marburg, Germany

 

 

Research

Publications  ⋅  DBLP  ⋅  details on research projects  ⋅  CV (pdf)

Projects:

• Computing over Compressed Graph-Structured Data  (EPSRC)

Research interests:

• Space-efficient data structures, computing over compressed data
• Analysis of algorithms, algorithm science, adaptive algorithms
  Powersort in Python

Postdocs

• Tamio-Vesa Nakajima (since November 2025)

Current Students:

• Ziad Ismaili Alaoui (since October 2024)

Former Group Members:

• Namrata (Postdoc June 2024 - May 2025)

• Ben Smith (PhD student Oct 2020 – June 2025)
  Thesis: Periodic Scheduling – Pinwheels, Pareto Surfaces, and Polycules (and Powersort)
• Eva Onokpasa (PhD student March 2021 – January 2025)
  Thesis: Grammar-Based Compression for RNA

 

Teaching

Current modules: 

• CS 566 Efficient Algorithms (Effiziente Algorithmen)
• CS 594 Algorithms of Bioinformatics
• Space-Efficient Computation Seminar

teaching archive  ⋅  book  ⋅  YouTube channel

 

Service to Profession

Conference Organziation:

• AofA 2024  ⋅  Special Issue of TCS

Program Committees Chair:

• ESA 2025 (Track S Chair)
• AofA 2024 (Co-Chair)

Program Committees Membership:
LATIN 2026  ⋅  ESA 2024 (Track S)  ⋅  SOFSEM 2023  ⋅  LATIN 2022  ⋅  AofA 2022  ⋅  ESA 2019 (Track B)  ⋅  ANALCO 2019  ⋅  ANALCO 2018

 

Outreach

I was coordinating the school outreach activities of my department in Liverpool from 2020 to 2024.

outreach website  ⋅  overview of activities  ⋅  EEECS outreach website