Sebastian Wild
University Professor at The Philipp University of Marburg
Marburg, Hesse, Germany
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Top SchoolSebastian Wild is a university professor and algorithms researcher with nine years of experience advancing foundational algorithms and space-efficient data structures. He is best known for Powersort, a practical adaptive sorting algorithm adopted in the Python reference implementation, and his work bridges rigorous theory, implementation, and compression-aware computation. Currently head of the Algorithms Group at Philipps University of Marburg and a senior lecturer at the University of Liverpool, he has a track record of teaching diverse audiences and designing applied algorithmics courses. Sebastian combines theorem-proving with hands-on coding and enjoys exploring novel ways to disseminate CS education. Based in Marburg, Germany, he holds a summa cum laude PhD from the University of Kaiserslautern and is a typographic enthusiast who cares about both digital and print presentation.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, summa cum laude, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, summa cum laude at University of Kaiserslautern
Github Skills (22)
proportional7
latex6
tex5
texstudio5
java5
ide5
algorithm5
player4
file-format4
neural-style-transfer4
streaming3
txt3
linux2
editor2
thunderbird2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sebawild/cpython
Jan 2022 - Feb 2023
The Python programming language
Contributions:9 PRs, 22 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year
python-programmingprogramming-languagepythonpython-programming-language
sebawild/sebawild.github.io
Jul 2017 - Dec 2019
Contributions:49 commits, 490 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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