Hannah Bast is a German computer scientist known for her work on routing in transportation networks and search engines. She works as a professor at the

University of Freiburg The University of Freiburg (colloquially german: Uni Freiburg), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (german: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), is a public university, public research university located in Freiburg im Breisg ...

, where she holds the chair in

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s and

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and is

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of the faculty of engineering. She is one of the members of the Enquete Commission on Artificial Intelligence of the German federal parliament. Bast studied at

Saarland University Saarland University (german: Universität des Saarlandes, ) is a public research university located in Saarbrücken, the capital of the German state of Saarland. It was founded in 1948 in Homburg in co-operation with France and is organized in s ...

, earning bachelor's degrees in mathematics and computer science in 1990, a master's degree in computer science in 1994, and a doctorate in 2000. Her dissertation, supervised by

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, was ''Provably Optimal Scheduling of Similar Tasks''. She worked as a researcher at the

Max Planck Institute for Informatics The Max Planck Institute for Informatics (German: ''Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik'', abbreviated ''MPI-INF'' or ''MPII'') is a research institute in computer science with a focus on algorithms and their applications in a broad sense. It hosts ...

until 2007, and as a visiting scientist at

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from 2008 to 2009, before moving to Freiburg in 2009. Bast was program chair for Track B (Engineering and Applications) of the 2018

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, where she conducted an experiment on the quality of

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by having two parallel program committees reviewing the complete set of submissions independently. Bast won several awards: th
Saarland University Dissertation Award
, the

Otto Hahn Medal The Otto Hahn Medal (german: Otto-Hahn-Medaille) is awarded by the Max Planck Society to young scientists and researchers in both the natural and social sciences. The award takes its name from the German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate Otto Hahn ...

from the

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, the

Heinz Billing Prize In 1993, the Heinz Billing Prize for the advancement of scientific computation was presented for the first time. The aim of this award is to honour the achievements of those who have spent time and effort developing the hardware and software cruci ...

(together with Stefan Funke), the Meyer Struckmann Science Prize, the Alcatel-Lucent Research Award,
Google Focused Research Award
(together with Dorothea Wagner and Peter Sanders), and various teaching awards.

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