Education
| 2019 – present | Aspiring PhD in Computer Science | TU Dortmund University |
| 2015 – 2019 | Master of Science, Computer Science | TU Dortmund University |
| 2011 – 2015 | Bachelor of Science, Computer Science | TU Dortmund University |
| 2008 – 2011 | IT Specialist – Application Development | Materna Information & Communications SE |
| 1998 – 2007 | Abitur (German higher education entrance certification) | Comenius Gymnasium Datteln |
| 1994 – 1998 | Elementary school | Josefschule Datteln |
Professional Career
| 2019 – present | Research Associate | TU Dortmund University, Department of Computer Science, Algorithm Engineering |
| 2016 – 2019 | Research Assistant | TU Dortmund University, Department of Computer Science, Algorithm Engineering |
| 2015 | Application Developer (Java) | Materna Information & Communications SE |
| 2011 – 2015 | Student Assistant (Java Developer) | Materna Information & Communications SE |
| 2008 – 2011 | Trainee (Application Development) | Materna Information & Communications SE |
Peer-Reviewed Research Articles
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RLZ-r and LZ-End-r: Enhancing Move-rString Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE 2025), to be published
- (to be published)
- arXiv
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Top-k Frequent Patterns in Streams and Parameterized-Space LZ CompressionSymposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2024), Schloss Dagstuhl, 9:1-9:20
- 10.4230/LIPIcs.SEA.2024.9 (open access)
- Slides
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Bit-Parallel (Compressed) Wavelet Tree ConstructionData Compression Conference (DCC 2023), IEEE, 81-90
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Scalable Text Index ConstructionAlgorithms for Big Data - DFG Priority Program 1736, Springer LNCS, 2022, 252-284
- 10.1007/978-3-031-21534-6_14 (open access)
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Practical Wavelet Tree ConstructionJournal of Experimental Algorithmics, ACM, 2021
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Engineering Predecessor Data Structures for Dynamic Integer SetsSymposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2021), Schloss Dagstuhl, 7:1-7:19
- LIPIcs.SEA.2021.7 (open access)
- arXiv
- Slides
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Practical Performance of Space Efficient Data Structures for Longest Common ExtensionsEuropean Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2020), Schloss Dagstuhl, 39:1-39:20
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Constructing the Wavelet Tree and Wavelet Matrix in Distributed MemorySIAM Symposium on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX 2020), SIAM, 214-228
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Translating Between Wavelet Tree and Wavelet Matrix ConstructionPrague Stringology Conference (PSC 2019), Prague Stringology Club, 126-135
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Bidirectional Text Compression in External Memory27th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2019), LIPIcs 144, 41:1-41:16
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Compression with the tudocomp FrameworkSymposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2017), LIPIcs 75, 13:1-13:22
- 10.4230/LIPIcs.SEA.2017.13 (open access)
- arXiv
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Enhancing Long-Term Motivation of Cardiac Patients by Applying Exergaming in Rehabilitation TrainingInternational Conference on Wearable Micro and Nano Technologies for Personalized Health (pHealth 2017), Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 237, 183-187
Theses
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Textkompression mithilfe des LCP-ArraysBachelor's Thesis (German), supervised by Johannes Fischer and Dominik Köppl
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Distributed Wavelet Tree ConstructionMaster's Thesis (German), supervised by Johannes Fischer and Florian Kurpicz
Teaching
Supervised Theses
| 2025 | LZ-End-komprimierte Suffix-Arrays mit effizientem Zugriff | Bachelor's |
| 2024 | Parallelisierung einer speichereffizienten Approximation der LZ77-Faktorisierung | Bachelor's |
| 2022 | Constructing Wavelet Trees with SIMD Instructions | Master's |
| 2021 | Grammatikkompression mit dem Enhanced Suffix Array | Bachelor's |
| 2021 | Evaluation von Sliding-Window-Algorithmen zur Berechnung der Lempel-Ziv-77-Faktorisierung | Bachelor's |
| 2021 | Hybride parallele Konstruktion von Wavelet Trees | Bachelor's |
| 2020 | Approximation der LZ-Zerlegung | Bachelor's |
| 2019 | Plagiatserkennung als praktische Anwendung des Suffix-Arrays | Bachelor's |
Courses, Seminars, Projects
| 2025/2026 | Visualisierung zur Ausführung von C-Programmen (Master-level project, Computer Science, TU Dortmund University) | Co-supervisor |
| Summer 2025 | Grundbegriffe der Theoretischen Informatik (Bachelor-level course, Computer Science, TU Dortmund University) | Excercises, assignments, examination |
| Summer 2024 | Datenstrukturen, Algorithmen und Programmierung 1 (Bachelor-level course, Computer Science, TU Dortmund University) | Excercises, assignments, examination |
| Winter 2021/2022 | Digital Entertainment Technologies (Bachelor-level project, Computer Science, TU Dortmund University) | Supervisor |
| Summer 20101 | Seminar Advanced Data Structures (Master-level seminar, Computer Science, TU Dortmund University) | Co-supervisor |
| Summer 2021 | Digital Entertainment Technologies (Bachelor-level project, Computer Science, TU Dortmund University) | Supervisor |
| Summer 2020 | Seminar Advanced Data Structures (Master-level seminar, Computer Science, TU Dortmund University) | Co-supervisor |
| 2019/2020 | PlaDS (Platzeffiziente Datenstrukturen) (Master-level project, Computer Science, TU Dortmund University) | Co-supervisor |
| Summer 2019 | Seminar Advanced Data Structures (Master-level seminar, Computer Science, TU Dortmund University) | Co-supervisor |
| Summer 2019 | Proseminar Parallele Algorithmen (Bachelor-level seminar, Computer Science, TU Dortmund University) | Co-supervisor |
Language Skills (self-assessed)
- German (native)
- English (C2)
- French (A2)
- Spanish (A1)
- Dutch (A1)
Skills & Interests
- Programming (C++, C#, Python, Java; remnants of PHP, Kotlin, Visual Basic, x86 assembly, BASIC 2.0, possibly more …)
- Video game development (released Unity game; experiences with Unreal, SFML, SDL, LWJGL), artwork authoring (Blender, Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer) and music production (FL Studio, iZotope Ozone)
- Office software
Veasna
My goa trance project started in 2013, under which I produced two full-length albums next to various EPs and compilation releases and played a number of live sets.
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Goa Trance Music
Together with Joost in 2016, I took over the small label Goa Trance Music and produced a CD compilation with the concept of a time travel from oldschool to newschool goa trance.
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Inti
Experimental music, mostly downtempo on hip-hop-ish beats. This projects has been going since the early 2000s, but there has only been one album release.
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DrKrake vs Jellyfish
Starting with really strange music around 2003, Florian and myself remixed video game music released as the Super Musical Entertainment System.
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Kirsche und Minze
Pushing eJay Dance 3 to its limits in the early 2000s, Matze and myself produced various tracks in different genres, though mostly inspired by Electro House music.
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Beyond Nothing
In the mid 2000s, four friends and myself founded this death metal band, which sadly parted ways after graduating school. We has several gigs and did a few studio recordings.
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Das Fantastische Bier
This is four guys, myself included, covering the famous German hip hop group Die Fantastischen Vier, re-writing the lyrics to be all about beer (explicity excluding Hansa).
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Glump Records
Glump is a Bavarian term for "stuff". Under this fictive record label, I collect all kinds of music that I produced over the years, including much of the aforementioned.
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Minecraft Stats
Using MinecraftStats, Minecraft server owners can display their players' statistics on a ranking and award-based web frontend.
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Deezcover
Modern music streamers lack the feature to play a truly random track from their entire database. This open source tool does that via deezer.
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tudocomp
From 2015 to 2020, I helped raise the TU Dortmund Compression Framework (tudocomp), which also backed several academic works of myself and others.
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JSFML
From 2012 to 2015, I developed the official Java binding of the Simple Fast Multimedia Library (SFML) based on the Java Native Interface (JNI).
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System Management
During my professional career as software developer at Materna SE from 2008 to 2015, I worked on network discovery and monitoring tools.
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Casual Pro Wrestling
My first full-fledged indie game project started in 2017 attempts to bring back the early 3D more casual pro wrestling gaming experience.
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Robobomb
This clone of Bomberman 64 multiplayer mode is the result of a 2014 university assignment on game development with Unity.
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Fantasy Pub
As a university assignment on software projects in 2013, fellow students and myself implemented the board game Fantasy Pub.
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Space Shooter
Accompanying the development of JSFML in 2012, I wrote this simple shooter where the task is to shoot asteroids and break the highscore.
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TitanRPG
A complete standalone roleplaying game mutator for Unreal Tournament 2004 based on ideas introduced in UT2004RPG and DruidsRPG, developed between 2008 and 2014.
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VCTF4
A modification of the four-team Capture the Flag game mode (CTF4) for Unreal Tournament 2004 to support vehicles – chaos ensues. This includes a set of maps and vehicle reskins.
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LEdit
In 2009, I started development on a ROM editor for Lufia 2: Rise of the Sinistrals (Super Nintendo Entertainment System). It allowed editing maps, monsters and items, but was never finished as the target community was extremely small.
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Ares / YR++ / Syringe
As the next level of extending modability of Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge, in 2008 I provided a C++ API and wrote a program to load precompiled libraries into the executable at load time, eliminating the need for low level edits.
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RockPatch
RockPatch was a revolutionary assembly-level modification of Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge opening new possibilities to modders, that, in 2005, started a new wave of modding the game. It is still going on almost 20 years later.
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GoldenEye 007 Editors
In 2004, I developed several utilities to generate GameShark codes for GoldenEye 007 (Nintendo 64), most notably a Weapon Set Editor that allows customizing the weapon distributions in the iconic multiplayer mode.
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