Congratulations on the Successful Dissertation Defenses

Within just a few days, the Department of Computer Science had the pleasure of celebrating two successful dissertation defenses together with the doctoral candidates, their friends, and families.

After years of intensive and diligent work, Gregor Bankhamer (left in the picture) and Tijn de Vos (right in the picture) successfully completed their doctorates.

Mr. Bankhamer focused in his dissertation, titled “Randomized Algorithms for Distributed Consensus and Local Failover Routing,” on two fundamental problems in distributed systems.

Mr. de Vos explored in his dissertation, “Graph Sparsification in Distributed and Dynamic Settings,” several fundamental graph problems in the areas of distance, flow, and connectivity.