Serge Gaspers

My Curriculum Vitae

picture of me First Name Serge
Last Name Gaspers
Address CMM - Center for Mathematical Modeling, Universidad de Chile
Av. Blanco Encalada 2120
Santiago de Chile
E-mail
Born 28/01/1981 in Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Nationality Luxembourgish

Positions

10/2010- Postdoctoral Researcher
Institute of Information Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
Advisor: Stefan Szeider
09/2009-09/2010 Postdoctoral Researcher
Center for Mathematical Modeling - University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
Advisor: Marcos Kiwi
01/2009-08/2009 ANR Postdoctoral Researcher
LIRMM, University of Montpellier 2, CNRS, France
Advisor: Christophe Paul

Education

2006-2008 PhD in Computer Science (December 5, 2008)
Thesis tile: Exponential Time Algorithms: Structures, Measures, and Bounds
Supervisor: Fedor V. Fomin; Co-supervisor: Pinar Heggernes
Committee: Thore Husfeldt, Ryan Williams, and Dag Haugland
Department of Informatics at the University of Bergen, Norway
2004-2005 Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies Informatique de Lorraine "Intelligence Logicielle", filière Algorithmique Numérique et symbolique
Master Thesis: Algorithmes exponentiels
Advisor: Dieter Kratsch
Université Paul Verlaine - Metz, France (co-organized by the universities of Metz, Nancy I, Nancy II and the INPL)
2003-2004 Maîtrise Informatique
Thesis: Algorithmes pour le problème de domination d'un graphe (Algorithms for Dominating Set)
Advisor: Dieter Kratsch
Université Paul Verlaine - Metz, France
2002-2003 Licence Informatique
Université Paul Verlaine - Metz, France
2000-2002 Diplôme Universitaire de Technologie en Informatique
University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2000 Diplôme de Fin d'Etudes Secondaires, option mathématiques - sciences physiques
Lycée de Garçons à Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

Awards

2008 Meltzerfondet grant for travels 28 000 NOK
2007 Meltzerfondet grant for travels 28 000 NOK
2006 Best Student Paper Award ISAAC 2006

Summer Jobs and Internships in Computer Science

2005 research training at the LITA in Metz, leading to my Master thesis under the tuition of Dieter Kratsch (6 months)
2004 internship at the Computer Science Department of the Entreprise des Postes et Télécommunications in Luxembourg (2 months)
2002, 2003 summer job at the Computer Science Department of the Entreprise des Postes et Télécommunications in Luxembourg (twice 2 months)

Various Knowledge

Languages Luxembourgish, German, French, English, Norwegian and weak knowledge of Spanish
Programming languages A370 (Assembler), C/C++, Cobol, DrScheme, Java, Pascal, Visual Basic
Web cgi, html, php, jsp, xml
Operating Systems Fedora Linux, Redhat Linux, Sun Solaris, Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista
TCS Algorithms, Complexity, Data Structures, Lambda-Calculus, Logic, Turing Machines, ...
Software Design and Databases Merise, UML, SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL
Mathematical Programming Maple, AMPL
Office standard office software, Latex (incl. Beamer, PGF)

Miscellaneous

Sports Badminton, Ultimate Flying Disc