Short CV of Christian Sommer

Christian Sommer studied Computer Science and got his MSc from ETH Zurich (Switzerland) in 2006. Since 2007, he is a PhD student at Tokyo University working on algorithms for shortest paths.

Future

Please contact me, I plan to graduate in March 2010.

Present (& Recent)

PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Tokyo (since 4.2007)

• Advisors: Shinichi Honiden and Michael E. Houle
• Fellowship of the University of Tokyo (since 4.2008)
• Research assistant at the National Institute of Informatics (since 11.2006)

 

• External Reviewer for ICDCN 2010
• Internship at the Los Alamos National Laboratories in the CCS-3 Group (7.2009 - 10.2009)
• Internship at Microsoft Research Asia in the Theory Group (7.2008 - 10.2008)

 

• Extra-curricular: I ran the Hakone Ekiden Yosenkai

Past

Master of Science in Computer Science at ETH Zurich (10.2002 - 9.2006)

• Major: Theoretical Computer Science
  • Master's thesis: Robust Combiners for Cryptographic Protocols
    Supervisors: Bartosz Przydatek and Ueli Maurer
  • Term project: A Note on Coloring Sparse Random Graphs
    Supervisor: Konstantinos Panagiotou
  • Teaching Assistant for Discrete Mathematics, Professor: Ueli Maurer
  • Teaching Assistant for Open Class lectures, Professor: Juraj Hromkovic
• Minor: Software Engineering
  • Term project: Model Checking Networked Programs in the Presence of Transmission Failures
    Supervisor: Cyrille Artho, work done at the National Institute of Informatics
• Others: basic business lectures (accounting, international management, etc.)
  • Publication: Outsourcing and Offshoring: the Consultancies' Estimates
  • Internship: Accenture Management Consulting (10.2005 - 12.2005)
  • Research Assistant: Chair of Strategic Management and Innovation
• Extra-curricular: Frenchhorn player in the Academic Orchestra, the Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Swiss Army Concert Band, and others. Concerts all around Europe.