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Jesper Nederlof is an associate professor in the Algorithms and Complexity group at UU. He received his M.Sc. in Applied Computing Science from Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ (the Netherlands) in 2008, and successfully defended his PhD thesis titled `Space and Time Efficient Structural Improvements of Dynamic Programming Algorithms’ in December 2011, which he obtained at the ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ of Bergen (Norway). He was fortunate enough to have Pinar Heggernes as PhD supervisor. In 2012-2014, he continued the research of his PhD thesis as a postdoctoral researcher at Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ funded by a NWO open competition project. From February 2014 to October 2014, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Maastricht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ, and afterwards he worked 4 months as research fellow at the ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ of Berkeley and as assistant professor at the combinatorial optimization group in the mathematics department of TU/e.
In his research, Jesper likes to design algorithms for NP-complete problems with small, but still exponential (since he doesn’t expect to prove P=NP) worst-case run time.
But his research interests also include many other subfields of Theoretical Computer Science. For example, he also wrote papers featuring a substantial amount of (among others) algorithmic game theory, information theory, representation theory, approximation algorithms and online algorithms.
Jesper has been involved as lecturer or instructor courses involving algorithms, (non)-linear optimization, graph theory, (vector) calculus, modeling, and management and product development.