Dan Olteanu's Group@Oxford

The (past and current) team in pictures.

Current Members

Robert Fink (DPhil, Dec 2009 -)
Ramon Granell (research associate, Oct 2010 -)
Tomáš Kočiský (4th year Maths&CS, 2011)
Quentin Spencer-Harper (3rd year CS, 2011)
Sebastiaan van Schaik (DPhil, Oct 2010 -)
Jakub Závodný (DPhil, Jan 2011 -)

Alumni (@Oxford)

Nurzhan Bakibayev (MSc, 2011). Distinction (MSc thesis and overall performance).
First employment: Google (London).
Maria Boghiu (MSc, 2011).
First employment: Microsoft (Seattle).
Emanuel Ferm (MSc, 2011). Distinction (MSc thesis).
First employment: Palantir Technologies (London).
Larisa Han (MSc, 2011). Distinction (MSc thesis and overall performance). Hoare Prize for best MSc in CS thesis.
First employment: UBS (London).
Hongkai Wen (DPhil, co-supervised with Niki Trigoni). I co-supervised Hongkai from May 2010 to July 2011.
Swaroop Rath (MSc, 2010). Distinction (thesis and overall performance; overall ranking: 2nd).
First employment: BP (London).
Robin Steinhaus (MSc, 2010). Distinction (MSc thesis and overall performance).
First employment: Morgan Stanley, Investment Banking (Frankfurt).
Yuvika Suvarna (MSc, 2010). Distinction (MSc thesis and overall performance).
First employment: Cisco (London).
Robert Taylor (MSc, 2010). Distinction (MSc thesis and overall performance).
First employment: Gloucester Research (London).
Narayan Kamath (MSc, 2010; side project under my supervision). Hoare prize for best overall MSc in CS performance.
First employment: Google (London).
Alex Scott-Johns (4th year, 2010).
Tibor Barna (BSc, 2010).
Jiewen Huang (MSc by Research, 2009).
First position: PhD in CS (Yale).
Rasmus Wissmann (MSc, 2009). Distinction (MSc thesis and overall performance). Hoare prize for best overall MSc in CS performance.
First position: PhD in quantitative finance (Oxford).
Yunli Song (MSc, 2009).
First position: PhD in computational biology (Oxford).
Smitha Mysore-Shankar (MSc, 2009).
First employment: Winton Capital (Oxford).
Ricardo Engel (MSc, 2009).
First employment: Winton Capital (Oxford).
Eleni Hadjiyiangou (MSc, 2008).
Jiewen Huang (MSc, 2008). Distinction (MSc thesis and overall performance). Hoare prizes for best MSc in CS thesis and best overall MSc in CS performance.
First position: CS research student (Oxford).

Alumni (@Saarland)

Lyublena Antova (MSc, 2006. co-supervised with Prof C. Koch). First position: PhD in CS (Saarland, then Cornell).

Alumni (@Munich)

Fatih Coskun (BSc, 2004. co-supervised with Prof F. Bry).
Hatice Serap Durmaz (BSc, 2004. co-supervised with Prof F. Bry).
Tim Furche (Dipl. Inf., 2003. co-supervised with Prof F. Bry). First position: PhD in CS (Munich).
Markus Spannagel (BSc, 2003. co-supervised with Prof F. Bry).
Dominik Schwald (BSc, 2003. co-supervised with Prof F. Bry).
Tobias Kiesling (Dipl. Inf., 2002. co-supervised with Prof F. Bry). First position: PhD in CS (Munich Bundeswehr Uni).
Sebastian Schaffert (Dipl. Inf., 2001. co-supervised with Prof F. Bry). First position: PhD in CS (Munich).