ABOUT ME
Hello, my name is Christian and I am a PhD candidate at UIUC working in CS Theory. I am a formerly trained aerospace engineer who spent some time working in control systems and guidance algorithm development. My path to get here has been a bit weird but I am currently having fun at UIUC working on computational geometry and topology problems with my great advisor Jeff Erickson.
RESEARCH
As above, I work with Jeff Erickson on algorithm questions largely within the domains of computational geometry and computational topology. We have spent time thinking about a few problems, some of which are stated below:
Morphing between isomorphic graph embeddings on spheres.
Recent paper on this topic accepted for SoCG ’25.
Fast algorithms for solving systems of hyperbolic partial differential equations using carefully formed spacetime simplices in up to \(\mathbb{E}^3 \times \mathbb{R}\), capable of adaptive error control. Distributed implementation written in C++ using MPI + pthreads
I enjoy theoretical computer science more broadly, especially enjoying usage of randomness in algorithms and its further reaching implications in the limits of what can be computed. I also have a fondness for more general graph algorithms.
CONFERENCE TALKS
TEACHING
As of now, I have been a teaching assistant (TA) to a handful of cs theory courses, such as:
MISCELLANEOUS
Like anyone, I have a variety of other interests or things I am involved with. Here are a list of some of them:
