Dr. Steven Chaplick

• WS 2019/2020: Lecturer for Advanced Algorithms
• SS 2019: Lecturer for Graph Visualization
• WS 2018/2019: Lecturer for Exact Algorithms
• SS 2018: Lecturer for Graph Visualization
• WS 2017/2018: Lecturer for Computational Geometry
• SS 2017: Lecturer for Graph Visualization
• WS 2016/2017: Lecturer for Approximation Algorithms
• SS 2016: Lecturer for Graph Visualization
• WS 2015/2016: Lecturer for Computational Geometry

My primary area of interest is algorithmic graph theory and my current research focuses on intersection representations of graphs, efficient methods for graph class recognition, and optimization problems on restricted graph classes. 

(see: here for my full CV)

Postdoctoral Work:

• Since Sept. 2015:
  Postdoc in the Chair of Computer Science I, Universität Würzburg.
• Jan. 2014 – June 2015:
  Postdoc in the Algorithmic and Discrete Mathematics Group, TU Berlin. *
• Feb. 2013 – Dec. 2013:
  Postdoc in the Department of Applied Mathematics, Charles University in Prague. *
• Jan. 2012 – Jan. 2013:
  Visiting Researcher: Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo, Canada), Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada), University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada), Haifa University (Haifa, Israel).

* These positions were supported by the EuroCores EUROGIGA project GraDR.

Studies:

• Feb. 2008 – Jan. 2012:
  PhD in Computer Science at the University of Toronto (Advisor: Derek Corneil).
• Sept. 2006 – Jan. 2008:
  M.Sc in Computer Science at the University of Toronto (Advisor: Derek Corneil).
• Sept. 2001 – June 2006:
  B.Math double degree in Combinatorics & Optimization and Computer Science at the University of Waterloo.

Academic Service :

• Program Committee Member
  WG 2018 : 44th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science.
  GD 2018 : 26th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization.
• (recent) Workshop Organization:
  (2018) Workshop on Constrained Recognition Problems. Co-located with ICALP.
  (2017) Workshop on Geometric Perspectives in Graph Drawing and Information Visualization. Co-located with SoCG.
  (2016) 19th Korean Workshop on Computational Geometry.
  (2016) Workshop on Geometric Representations of Graphs. Co-located with SoCG/STOC.
• Referee Experience
  Journals: CGTA (Journal of Computational Geometry – Theory and Applications), DAM (Discrete Applied Mathematics), DMTCS (Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science), IPL (Information Pro- cessing Letters), TCS (Theoretical Computer Science).
  Conferences: CALDAM (Conf. on Algorithms and Discrete Applied Mathematics), CIAC (Int. Conf. on Al- gorithms and Complexity), EUROCOMB (Eur. Conf. on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Applications), FSTTCS (Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science Conf.), GD (Int. Symp. on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization), ICALP (Int. Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming), IWOCA (Int. Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms), LAGOS (Latin-American Algo- rithms, Graphs, and Optimization Symp.), SoCG (Symp. on Computational Geometry), SODA (ACM- SIAM Symp. on Discrete Algorithms), STACS (Int. Symp. on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science), STOC (ACM Symp. on Theory of Computing), WADS (Algorithms and Data Structures Symp.), WG (Int. Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science).