Marek Karpinski - Short Biography#

Marek Karpinski is currently a Chair Professor of Computer Science and a Member of Bonn International Graduate School in Mathematics and Hausdorff Center for Mathematics at the University of Bonn. He has been doing research and teaching at various universities and research institutes, among others, in Berkeley, Princeton, MIT, Yale, Cambridge, Oxford, Warsaw, Edinburgh, and Paris. He is a recipient of several research prizes.

His main research interests are in efficient algorithms and combinatorial optimization, complexity and circuits, approximation lower bounds, randomized approximation techniques, approximate measurements, and various applications in Operation Research, Statistical Physics, Networks, Quantum Computation, Internet Algorithms, and Molecular Biology.