Currently, the chair for Algorithm Engineering consists of three research groups:

Prof. Dr. Kevin Buchin: Algorithm Engineering (Chair)

• algorithm engineering
• computational geometry
• spatial networks
• algorithms for GIS
• algorithms for motion planning

Prof. Dr. Günter Rudolph: Computational Intelligence

• Multi-objective Optimization and Industrial Optimization
• Evolutionary Computation
• Digital Entertainment Technologies
• Music Data Analysis
• Artificial Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems

Prof. Dr. Johannes Fischer: Algorithmic Foundations and Education in Computer Science

• algorithm engineering
• text indexing
• succinct data structures
• (lower) secondary computer science education
• algorithms for Big Data
• parallel algorithms

Former research groups are:

Prof. Dr. Petra Mutzel: Algorithm Engineering:
now at University of Bonn: Computational Analytics at Bonn University

• Algorithm Engineering, in particular graph algorithms and data structures
• Computational Analytics
• Algorithmic Data Analysis, Graph Mining
• Combinatorial Optimization (polynomial time and ILP-based)
• Network Design and Optimization
• Graph and Network Visualization
• Analysis of chemical structures and biological networks

Prof. Dr. Sven Rahmann: Bioinformatics
now at Saarland University: Algorithmic Bioinformatics

• Efficient algorithms for large biological datasets in genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics
• Analysis of high-throughput sequencing data (e.g., Illumina, Nanopore, etc.)
• Engineering of hashing algorithms, e.g. multi-way Cuckoo hashing
• Reconstruction and analysis of complex biological networks, especially protein hypernetworks (protein networks with additional constraints)
• Algorithmic statistics in bioinformatics and applications of combinatorial optimization in bioinformatics

The chair for Algorithm Engineering was founded in 1985. Professor Hans-Paul Schwefel was head of the chair (called Systemanalyse) until his retirement in 2006, and then by Professor Petra Mutzel until 2019.