Hannah Bast

Hannah Bast is a German computer scientist known for her work on routing in transport networks. She works as a professor at the University of Freiburg, where she holds the chair in algorithms and data structures and is dean of studies in the faculty of engineering.[1]

Bast studied at Saarland University, earning bachelor's degrees in mathematics and computer science in 1990, a master's degree in computer science in 1994 under the direction of Torben Hagerup, and a doctorate in 2000. Her dissertation, supervised by Kurt Mehlhorn, was Provably Optimal Scheduling of Similar Tasks.[1][2] She worked as a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics until 2007, and at Saarland University from 2008 to 2009, before moving to Freiburg in 2009.[1] Bast was program chair for Track B (Engineering and Applications) of the 2018 European Symposium on Algorithms.[3]

With Stefan Funke, Bast won the Heinz Billing Prize for the Advancement of Scientific Computing in 2007 for their work on data structures for shortest path queries.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2018-08-24
  2. ↑ Hannah Bast at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ ESA 2018: Committees, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, retrieved 2018-08-24
  4. ↑ "Award Winners", Heinz Billing Prize for the Advancement of Scientific Computing, retrieved 2018-08-24

Further reading

  • Zimmermann, Frank (July 24, 2015), "Informatikprofessorin Bast: "Für Forschung braucht man Zeit" (interview with Bast)", Badische Zeitung
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