Kasper Green Larsen is a

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. He is currently full professor at Aarhus University.

Biography

Larsen earned his doctorate from Aarhus University in 2013 under the supervision of Lars Arge. He received several best paper awards at major conferences in theoretical computer science, including

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, Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, and the

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, including the

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and Danny Lewin Award for best student paper. In 2019, Larsen received the

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from the European Association of Theoretical Computer Science for his work on lower bounds.

References

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