Thomas Lengauer

Thomas Lengauer (born November 12, 1952) is a German computer scientist, working in the fields of computational biology, computational chemistry and combinatorial optimization.[2][3]

Thomas Lengauer
Thomas Lengauer in 2017.
Born (1952-11-12) November 12, 1952
Alma mater
AwardsKonrad Zuse Medal (2003)
Scientific career
Fields
Theses
Doctoral advisors
Doctoral studentsChristoph Bock[1]
Websitewww.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~lengauer/

Education

Lengauer studied Mathematics at the Free University of Berlin, earning his Diploma in 1975 and a Dr. rer. nat. (equivalent to a PhD) in 1976. His thesis studied structural aspects of concurrency. Lengauer later gained an MSc (1977) and a PhD (1979) in computer science, both from Stanford University.[4]

Work and research

After a short period working at Bell Labs and Saarland University, Lengauer became Professor of Computer Science at University of Paderborn in 1984. From 1992 to 2001 he was Professor of Computer Science at the University of Bonn and Director of the German National Center for Information Technology.[5] Since 2001, he has been a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics.[6]

With his Stanford PhD advisor Robert Tarjan, he is known for the Lengauer–Tarjan algorithm in graph theory.[7]

Since the early 1990s his research has been focused in computational biology, particularly the prediction of protein structure and function, and computational drug screening and design.[5]

Awards and honours

In 2003, Lengauer was awarded the Konrad Zuse Medal, the highest award of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (German Informatics Society).[8]

Since 2014, Lengauer has been Vice President of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB).[9][10] He was elected as a Fellow of the ISCB in 2015.[11] In September 2016 it was announced that Lengauer will become the next President of the ISCB, serving for three years from January 2018. He will be President-Elect through 2017.[12]

Personal life

Lengauer's twin brother Christian Lengauer was a Professor in the Faculty of Informatics and Mathematics at the University of Passau.[13][14]

gollark: Or any time, really.
gollark: There would be no photon torpedoes at this time.
gollark: ```Cold Ones (also ice giants, the Finality, Lords of the Last Waste)Mythological beings who dwell at the end of time, during the final blackness of the universe, the last surviving remnants of the war of all-against-all over the universe’s final stocks of extropy, long after the passing of baryonic matter and the death throes of the most ancient black holes. Savage, autocannibalistic beings, stretching their remaining existence across aeons-long slowthoughts powered by the rare quantum fluctuations of the nothingness, these wretched dead gods know nothing but despair, hunger, and envy for those past entities which dwelled in eras rich in energy differentials, information, and ordered states, and would – if they could – feast on any unwary enough to fall into their clutches.Stories of the Cold Ones are, of course, not to be interpreted literally: they are a philosophical and theological metaphor for the pessimal end-state of the universe, to wit, the final triumph of entropy in both a physical and a spiritual sense. Nonetheless, this metaphor has been adopted by both the Flamic church and the archai themselves to describe the potential future which it is their intention to avert.The Cold Ones have also found a place in popular culture, depicted as supreme villains: perhaps best seen in the Ghosts of the Dark Spiral expansion for Mythic Stars, a virtuality game from Nebula 12 ArGaming, ICC, and the Void Cascading InVid series, produced by Dexlyn Vithinios (Sundogs of Delphys, ICC).```
gollark: And it's all just horribly dense spaghetti code.
gollark: There are no docs or comments anywhere. It's ridiculous.

References
  1. Bock, Christoph (2008). Computational Epigenetics. mpg.de (PhD thesis). Saarland University. OCLC 472653426. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
  2. "Homepage (Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik)". bioinf.mpi-inf.mpg.de. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
  3. Thomas Lengauer at DBLP Bibliography Server
  4. "Homepage (Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik) | Academic". bioinf.mpi-inf.mpg.de. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
  5. "BioSolveIT GmbH – Thomas Lengauer". www.biosolveit.de. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
  6. Bioinformatics – From Genomes to Therapies. 2007. doi:10.1002/9783527619368. ISBN 9783527619368.
  7. Lengauer, Thomas; Tarjan, Robert Endre (1 January 1979). "A fast algorithm for finding dominators in a flowgraph". ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. 1 (1): 121–141. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.117.8843. doi:10.1145/357062.357071.
  8. "BioSolveIT GmbH – Award: Thomas Lengauer receives the acclaimed Konrad-Zuse-Medal (07.07.2003)". www.biosolveit.de. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
  9. "Aug 09, 2013: ISCB Announces Results of the Officer Elections". www.iscb.org. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
  10. "Officers and Directors". www.iscb.org. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
  11. "Feb 20, 2015: Meet the ISCB Fellows Class of 2015". www.iscb.org. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
  12. "September 12, 2016 - ISCB Announces Results of the 2016 Officer and Student Council Leadership Elections!". www.iscb.org. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
  13. "f2.pdf" (PDF). Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  14. "Homepage of Christian Lengauer". www.infosun.fim.uni-passau.de. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
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