Summary
Paul Breiding is a Professor of Mathematics and leader of an Emmy Noether research group, with over a decade of experience developing high-performance algorithms at the intersection of AI, tensor analysis, and numerical algebraic geometry. He has authored 42 international publications, won the SIAG/AG Early Career Prize, and secured competitive funding (DFG, EU) to build interdisciplinary teams and mentor PhD students and postdocs. As the creator and maintainer of HomotopyContinuation.jl, he has delivered a state-of-the-art open-source tool widely used for numerically solving polynomial systems in ML and scientific computing. His work blends deep theoretical insight with practical software engineering, making algebraic methods tractable for real-world AI and simulation problems. Based in Osnabrück, Germany, he combines academic leadership with hands-on open-source development, often translating abstract geometry into scalable algorithms.
9 years of coding experience
Dr. rer. nat., Mathematics, Dr. rer. nat., Mathematics at Technische Universität Berlin
Master, Mathematics, Master, Mathematics at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen