Johannes Fischer (computer scientist)

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Johannes Fischer (* 1977 ) is a German computer scientist and algorithmist who primarily deals with research questions in the field of text algorithms. He works as a university professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Technical University of Dortmund .

life and work

Johannes Fischer studied computer science from 1997 to 2003 at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . In 2007 he did his doctorate with Volker Heun at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich on string algorithms .

After various positions as a postdoctoral fellow in Chile , at the University of Tübingen and at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology , he was appointed to a W2 professorship for "Algorithmic Basics and Communication of Computer Science" at the Technical University of Dortmund in 2013 .

Johannes Fischer's research focuses on the development of space-saving data structures (succinct data structures) for full-text indexing and data compression , especially on very large data (" Big Data "). He received special attention for his work on data structures for range minimum queries .

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Individual evidence

  1. Google Scholar Profile of Johannes Fischer. Accessed October 31, 2018 (German).