Jan van den Brand


Office
KACB 2144
266 Ferst Drive
Atlanta
GA 30332

Email
vdbrand at gatech.edu

Teaching
Fall'23 3511 - Algorithms Honors
Fall'22 8803 - Dynamic Algebraic Algorithms

About me

I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science at Georgia Tech. Previously, I was a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and a Simons-Berkeley Postdoctoral Researcher. I completed my PhD at KTH in Stockholm, Sweden, and my BSc + MSc at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany.

Research Interests

My research is on the design and theoretical analysis of efficient algorithms and data structures.
One research focus are dynamic algorithms (i.e. data structures) that maintain properties of dynamically changing graphs and matrices -- such as distances in a graph, or the solution of a linear system.
Another research focus are optimization algorithms. Many of these algorithms are iterative and solve a sequence of smaller subproblems, whose solution can be maintained via the aforementioned dynamic algorithms. I develop new iterative methods and dynamic algorithms that complement each other, resulting in improved optimization algorithms.

Many of my results use fast matrix multiplication which is why I created a small tool to obtain upper bounds of such algebraic algorithms.

Students

Anastasiia Alokhina, Spring 2022 - current
Daniel J. Zhang, Fall 2022 - current

Papers and Publications

[DBLP], [Google Scholar]
Unless marked with a '*', author names are in alphabetical order.

Short Biography

Full CV is available here.