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
- 2025/04: Our papers at ACDA (Partitioning Trillion Edge Graphs on Edge Devices) and EuroVis (Random Access Segmentation Volume Compression for Interactive Volume Rendering) have been accepted for publication. Links to the papers will follow soon.
- 2024/12: We presented the C++ MPI wrapper KaMPIng at SC in Atlanta and received the Best Reproducibility Advancements Award.
- 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)