Oliver Friedmann

Oliver Friedmann is a German computer scientist and mathematician known for his work on parity games and the simplex algorithm.[1] He is CTO and co-founder of Ziggeo,[2] a cloud-based video technology company.

Oliver Friedmann
NationalityGerman
EducationLudwig Maximilian University of Munich (Diploma and Doctorate)
OccupationCTO, Computer scientist
Known forLower bounds on Parity game algorithms

Friedmann earned his doctorate's degree from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 2011 under the supervision of Martin Hofmann and Martin Lange.[3]

Awards

He won the Kleene Award[4] for showing that state-of-the-art policy iteration algorithms for parity games require exponential time in the worst case.[5] He and his coauthors extended the proof techniques to the simplex algorithm and to policy iteration for Markov decision processes.[6] His seminal body of work on lower bounds in convex optimization, leading to a sub-exponential lower bound[7] for Zadeh's rule, was awarded with the Tucker Prize.[8]

References
  1. "Heinz Schwärtzel Dissertation Award" (in German). Archived from the original on 2018-08-16. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
  2. "Ziggeo". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
  3. Oliver Friedmann at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. "Kleene Award Winners". Retrieved 2018-03-14.
  5. "An Exponential Lower Bound for the Parity Game Strategy Improvement Algorithm as We Know it". Retrieved 2018-03-14.
  6. "STOC Best Paper Award". Archived from the original on 2017-12-22. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
  7. "Günter Ziegler: 1000$ from Beverly Hills for a Math Problem". Retrieved 2018-03-14.
  8. "Exponential Lower Bounds for Solving Infinitary Payoff Games and Linear Programs" (Mathematical Optimization Society)
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