
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Data
Name: | Stefan Hillmich |
Nationality: | German |
Education
High School, Aschersleben, Germany | |
10/2011–08/2015 | Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, University Bremen, Germany |
Bachelor’s Thesis: "Analyse beliebiger Spielsituationen des Kartenspiels Skat mit Hilfe Boolescher Erfüllbarkeit und Bitvektorlogik" (engl. "Determining Perfect Moves for the Card Game Skat using Boolean Satisfiability") | |
09/2015–08/2018 | Master's Degree in Computer Science, University Bremen, Germany |
Master’s Thesis: "Graph-Based Analysis of Growth Patterns in the True Slime Mold | |
07/2016–12/2016 | Exchange Semester at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand |
Awards & Honors
- Best Video Award in the DAC Young Fellow program at the Design Automation Conference (DAC), July 2022
- Invitation to the 10th NYUAD Hackathon as mentor, March 2022
- Participated in the IBM Quantum Challenge Africa 2021 and successfully solved all posed problem (over 900 people participated), September 2021
- Acceptance into the IBM Qiskit Advocate Program, August 2021
- Invited Talk on “Decision Diagrams for Quantum Computing” at the Free University Berlin, Institute of Physics, AG Eisert (Germany), June 2021
- Participated in the IBM Quantum Challenge 2021 and attained the best possible score (over 1400 people participated), May 2021
- Participated in the IBM Quantum Challenge Fall 2020 and placed 8th out of over 1000 participants, December 2020
- Best Poster Award for the Young Student Fellow Program presentation “Decision Diagrams for Quantum Computing” at the Design Automation Conference (DAC), July 2020
- Acceptance into the Young Student Fellow Program at the Design Automation Conference (DAC), July 2020
- Winner at “Vote Your Prof 2.0” from student’s association party “Meine AG” for the teaching of Computer Architecture 2020 (officially awarded to Prof. Robert Wille), June 2020
- Invitation to the IBM Qiskit Camp in the USA (postponed due to COVID-19), March 2020
- Winner of SRC@ICCAD the ACM Student Research Competition at International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), November 2019
- Invitation to the IBM Qiskit Camp Asia 2019, November 2019
- 3rd place at the IBM Quantum Challenge 2019, October 2019
- Invited Talk on “Advanced EDA for Quantum computing” at the IIT Kharagpur (India), May 2019
- PROMOS scholarship funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for the semester abroad in New Zealand, July 2016