Christie Louis Alappat wins the SC18 ACM Student Research Competition Award
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Our PhD student Christie Louis Alappat just took first place in the ACM Student Research Competition at SC18. His work revolved around the “Recursive Algebraic Coloring Engine,” which is a new method and library for hardware-efficient graph coloring. This means that he will advance to the grand finale next year. Congratulations!
Christie’s project is part of the activities in ESSEX-II, a project funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG) within the priority programme SPPEXA.
Christie has prepared a video with details about his work: