Sebastian Wild

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

Senior Lecturer
Department of Computer Science
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

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