Curriculum Vitae of Christoph Koutschan
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| Personal Data | ||
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| Full name | Priv.-Doz. Dipl.-Inf. Dr. Christoph Bernhard Koutschan | |
| Date of birth | 12.12.1978 | |
| Place of birth | Dillingen an der Donau, Germany | |
| Marital status | Married, two children | |
| Contact | ||
| Address |
Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM) Austrian Academy of Sciences Altenberger Straße 69 A-4040 Linz |
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| Phone | +43 732 2468 5254 | |
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| Homepage | http://www.koutschan.de | |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1135-3082 | |
| Education and Work Experience | ||
| 2017 | Habilitation in Mathematics | |
| 2012 – | Research scientist in the Symbolic Computation group at the Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM), Linz, Austria | |
| 2011 – 2012 | Postdoc position at Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), MSR-INRIA Joint Centre, Orsay, France | |
| 2010 – 2011 | Postdoc position at the Research Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC), Linz, Austria | |
| 2009 – 2010 | Postdoc position at Tulane University, New Orleans, USA | |
| 2009 | PhD thesis: Advanced Applications of the Holonomic Systems Approach (Advisor: Prof. Dr. Peter Paule) | |
| 2005 – 2009 | PhD studies in symbolic computation at RISC, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria | |
| 2005 | Master thesis ("Diplomarbeit"): Regular Languages and Their Generating Functions: The Inverse Problem (Advisor: Prof. Dr. Volker Strehl) | |
| 2004 | Student research project ("Studienarbeit"): Concept and Realization of a User Adaptive System of Musical Agents for Composing Simple Melodies (Advisor: Prof. Dr. Herbert Stoyan) | |
| 2001 – 2005 | Advanced studies (main subject: theoretical computer science, minor subject: mathematics) | |
| 1999 – 2001 | Basic studies (minor subject: numerical mathematics) | |
| 1999 – 2005 | Undergraduate studies in computer science at the Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany | |
| 1998 – 1999 | Civil service in the church of Meeder, Germany | |
| 1989 – 1998 | High school Gymnasium Casimirianum in Coburg, Germany (foreign languages: Latin (7 years), English (7 years), French (3 years), main subjects ("Leistungskurse"): mathematics, biology) | |
| 1985 – 1989 | Elementary school in Grub am Forst, Germany | |
| Career-Related Activities | ||
| 2026 | general chair for ISSAC | |
| 2025 | co-organizer (with D. Robertz) of the computer algebra section | |
| 2025 | member of the local organizing committee of the ÖMG–DMV Annual Meeting | |
| 2025 | program committee member at ISSAC | |
| 2023 – | editorial board member of the Journal of Difference Equations and Applications | |
| 2022 – 2025 | steering committee member for OPSFA | |
| 2022 | program committee member at ISSAC | |
| 2022 | program committee member at FPSAC | |
| 2021 | session organizer at ACA (together with Hao Du and Ali Uncu) | |
| 2020 – | editorial board member of the Journal of Symbolic Computation | |
| 2020 | session organizer and program committee member at ICMS 2020 | |
| 2020 | guest editor for Integral Transforms and Special Functions | |
| 2020 | program committee member at ISSAC | |
| 2019 – | editorial board member of Annals of Combinatorics | |
| 2019 – | member and treasurer of the work council of the Austrian Academy of Sciences | |
| 2019 | organizer of the conference OPSFA15 | |
| 2019 | program committee member at FPSAC | |
| 2018 | program committee member at SYNASC | |
| 2018 | session organizer at ICMS | |
| 2017 | program committee member at DART8 | |
| 2017 | guest editor for Mathematics in Computer Science | |
| 2017 | program committee member at ISSAC | |
| 2017 | session organizer at ACA (Jerusalem) | |
| 2016 – | employee representative at RICAM | |
| 2016 | session organizer at the Workshop on Symbolic Computation and Algebraic Statistics (Kyoto) | |
| 2016 | session organizer at the International Congress on Mathematical Software (Berlin) | |
| 2016 | poster committee member at ISSAC | |
| 2016 – | contribute to the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS) | |
| 2016 – | member of DMV and ÖMG | |
| 2015 – | reviewer for Zentralblatt MATH and Mathematical Reviews | |
| 2015 | co-organizer (with I. Georgieva, C. Hofreither, V. Pillwein, R. Uluchev) of the Workshop on Approximation Theory, CAGD, Numerical Analysis, and Symbolic Computation (Linz, Austria) | |
| 2015 | co-organizer (with H. Hauser, G. Rond) of the Workshop on Approximation and Combinatorics (CIRM, Luminy, France) | |
| 2008 – 2009 | help with conference organization (ISSAC 2008, ACA 2008, FPSAC 2009) | |
| 2007 – 2009 | conduct one-week workshops for high school students | |
| 2006 – | help with administration of RISC (library, image archive) | |
| Awards | ||
| 2021 | Applications of Computer Algebra Early Researcher Award (ACA-ERA) | |
| 2016 | David P. Robbins Prize of the American Mathematical Society (together with M. Kauers and D. Zeilberger) | |
| 2016 | Distinguished Software Presentation Award at ISSAC | |
| Third-Party Funding | ||
| 2023 – 2027 | Efficient Algorithms for Guessing, Inequalities, and Summation (project part of FWF International Cooperation Project I\,6130-N, 92,106 EUR) | |
| 2020 – 2023 | Security and Safety for Shared Artificial Intelligence (project part of FFG COMET-K2 centre, 210,000 EUR) | |
| 2017 – 2021 | Certificate-free Summation and Integration (SFB project part F 5011-N15, 345,539 EUR) | |
| 2016 – 2018 | Algebraic Statistics and Symbolic Computation (FWF stand-alone project P 29467-N32, 155,904 EUR) | |
| Patents | ||
| 2015 | Joachim Schöberl, Christoph Koutschan, Peter Paule: Verfahren, Vorrichtung und Computerprogrammprodukt zur Bestimmung eines elektromagnetischen Nahfeldes einer Feldanregungsquelle eines elektrischen Systems (Method, device and computer program product for determining an electromagnetic near field of a field excitation source for an electrical system), European Patent EP2378444, US patent US8868382. | |
| Publications | ||
| List of publications | ||
| Talks | ||
| List of talks given at conferences and seminars | ||
| Teaching | ||
| List of lectures and exercises | ||
| Software | ||
| List of software projects | ||
| Personal Interests | ||
| 2005 – | Member of the choir "pro musica" | |
| 2004 – 2005 | Studies of the Arabic language and participating in a one-month language course in Lebanon | |
| 2003 | Degree "C-Prüfung" for organists | |
| 2002 – 2005 | Member of the Academic Choir of the University of Erlangen | |
| 2002 | Participant of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) | |
| 1999 – 2005 | Various journeys to many different countries, mainly in Asia, Latin America, Europe | |
| 1998 | Scholarship of Coburger Convent | |
| 1998 | Degree "D-Prüfung" for organists | |
| Since 1994 | Regular organ playing in church services | |
| 1992 – 2005 | Lessons in church organ | |
| 1986 – 1992 | Piano lessons | |