I’m a Master’s student at the Computer Science Department at Darmstadt University of Technology (TUD). In 2006/2007 I went to grad school for two terms as an exchange student at the Computer Science Department at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada.

Graduate courses I’ve taken (for credit): Introduction to Cryptography (TUD), Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing (TUD), Fundamentals of Algorithm Design and Analysis (UBC), Artificial Intelligence I (UBC), Advanced Computer Networks (UBC), Machine Learning (UBC), Software Engineering – Design & Construction (TUD), Discrete Mathematics (TUD), Introduction to Optimization (TUD).

In science it often happens that scientists say, “You know that’s a really good argument; my position is mistaken,” and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn’t happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion. — Carl Sagan, 1987 CSICOP keynote address