Welcome
My name is Florian Kurpicz and I am a postdoctoral researcher. I work in in Prof. Dr. Peter Sanders’ Algorithm Engineering group at the Institute of Theoretical Informatics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, where I am currently leading the Data Structures subgroup.
I received my PhD in Computer science from the TU Dortmund University in 2020, with a thesis on parallel text index construction under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Johannes Fischer.
I am working in Algorithm Engineering with a focus on Stringology (algorithms and data structures for textual data) and succinct data structures. On this website, you can read more about me and my research, find a list of my publications, check out my open source software, take a look at my talks, and see a list of courses taught by me.
News
- 2024/10: This winter term 2024/25 I have a lectureship (German: Lehrauftrag) for the course Text Indexing (in German) and will be responsible for the Stringology part of the lecture Algorithms 2 (in German)
- 2024/10: I will be on the PC of SEA 2025
- 2024/09: I will be on the Artifact Evaluation Committee of ALENEX 2025
- 2024/06: Our papers at ESA (Scalable Distributed Memory String Sorting) and SC (KaMPIng: Flexible and (Near) Zero-overhead C++ Bindings for MPI) have been accepted for publication
- 2024/06: We got two brief announcements accepted at this year’s SPAA (ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architecture): The first one introduces our new MPI-wrapper KaMPIng and second one presentes new Sclalble Distributed String Sorting algorithms using our KaMPIng wrapper
- 2024/04: This summer term 2024 I have a lectureship (German: Lehrauftrag) for the course Advanced Data Structures (in German)
- 2024/04: Finally, our MPI-wrapper KaMPIng (Karlsruhe MPI next generation) has been revealed to the public. Check out our preprint and obviously KaMPIng which will speed up your MPI development significantly
- 2024/04: I presented our paper on faster wavelet tree queries at DCC 2024 (slides, code)
- 2024/03: I will be on the PC of ESA 2024
- 2023/12: Our paper on faster queries on wavelet trees has been accepted at DCC 2024 (code)