Short Bio of Christian Sommer
Christian Sommer is interested in algorithms, complexity, and graph theory. He got his MSc from ETH Zurich in 2006 and his PhD from the University of Tokyo in 2010, where he also received the Dean's award for the best PhD thesis in the Computer Science Department.
CV
Current
Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo (since 4.2010)- Co-Teaching Advanced Algorithms
Past
Philosophiae Doctor in Computer Science at the University of Tokyo (4.2007 - 3.2010)
- Research at the University of Tokyo / NII
- PhD thesis: Approximate Shortest Path and Distance Queries in Networks
Advisors: Shinichi Honiden and Michael E. Houle - Fellowship of the University of Tokyo (4.2008 - 3.2010)
- Research assistant at the National Institute of Informatics (11.2006 - 3.2010)
- Co-supervision of MSc students: Fukuchi Daisuke and Yojiro Kawamata
- PhD thesis: Approximate Shortest Path and Distance Queries in Networks
- Research at other institutions
- 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: Distance running; I participated in the Hakone Ekiden Yosenkai with the University of Tokyo Track & Field Club and in many other races with Namban Rengo.
Master of Science in Computer Science at ETH Zurich, Switzerland (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
- Master's thesis: Robust Combiners for Cryptographic Protocols
- 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
- Term project: Model Checking Networked Programs in the Presence of Transmission Failures
- 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 (and the Alumni Orchestra), the Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Swiss Army Concert Band, and others. Concerts all around Europe.