Dominik Michael Krupke, M.Sc.
I am currently a PhD-student and research assistant (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the algorithms group (IBR) of the University of Technology in Braunschweig, Germany where I also obtained my bachelor and master degree in computer science. On this website you can find some public material of my researches.
I consider myself as some kind of full-stack algorithm researcher/engineer, engineering and evaluating algorithms to perform well in practice. or doing heavy theoretical proofs (such as solving TOPP 53 in this paper). I have also been involved in multiple projects, e.g. for ESA or Volkswagen. Further, I am a co-organizer and developer for the CG:SHOP Competitions (part of CG Week). Here is a list of my favorite papers I have coauthored:
- Distributed cohesive control for robot swarms: Maintaining good connectivity in the presence of exterior forces IROS, 2015
- Practical Methods for Computing Large Covering Tours and Cycle Covers with Turn Cost ALENEX, 2019
- Covering Tours and Cycle Covers with Turn Costs: Hardness and Approximation CIAC, 2019 BEST PAPER AWARD
You can find a full list of my research either here or on Google Scholar. (I don't update my website that often so Google Scholar might be more up to date.)
My research primarily focuses on:
- Combinatorial optimization in a geometric context (e.g., path planning for robots with turn costs): Integer Programming, Approximation Algorithms, Hardness, Algorithm Engineerng, Heuristics.
- Algorithms for swarms of simple robots and also controlling masses of underactuated robots via magnetic fields.
There are a lot of other fields I am interested in like wireless sensor networks (Arduino, Contiki, Wiselib), messing around with microcontrollers and Linux, information systems, artificial intelligence, and security. Currently I try to use data science in order to use experimental results from algorithm engineering to gain theoretical insights, especially for counter-intuitive problems.
If I am not working, you can mostly find me cruising on my Honda CBF 600 motorcycle or my cyclocross bicycle.
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