The ETH-ITS welcomes three new Junior Fellows
We are happy to announce the arrival of three new Junior Fellows to the ETH-ITS this summer. Yi-Jun Chang will be joining us in July, Dominik Schröder and Stefan Glock in September. Please see more information below.
Yi-Jun Chang received his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Michigan in May 2019 under the supervision of Seth Pettie. He is broadly interested in theoretical computer science, with a focus on local distributed graph algorithms. His dissertation addressed fundamental questions on the LOCAL model of distributed computing, such as "how much does randomness help?" and "can we solve more problems given more time?".
Stefan Glock received his PhD in mathematics from the University of Birmingham in July 2018 under the supervision of Daniela Kühn and Deryk Osthus. He studies (random) discrete objects, such as graphs and hypergraphs, and investigates their extremal and typical properties. His thesis contains a new proof of the Existence conjecture on combinatorial designs (dating back to a question of Jakob Steiner from 1853) based on combinatorial and probabilistic methods.
Dominik Schröder received his PhD in mathematics from IST Austria in 2019 under the supervision of László Erdős. His research interests are in probability theory. More specifically, he explored universal spectral properties of large random matrices and quantum spin glasses. He is also interested in applications to the analysis of algorithms in machine learning.