Gregor Schwarz

E-Mail: gregor.schwarz(at)in.tum.de
Phone: +49 (0) 89 289 - 17528
Fax: +49 (0) 89 289 - 17535
Office: Room 01.10.058 Boltzmannstr. 3 85748 Garching, Germany
Hours: by arrangement

Short Bio

09/2017 - 04/2022 Research Assistant, Chair of Decision Sciences & Systems
10/2015 - 06/2017 M.Sc. Informatics, Technische Universität München (Munich, Germany)
09/2014 - 08/2015 Visiting Student at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa, Israel)
10/2011 - 08/2014 B.Sc. Informatics, Technische Universität München (Munich, Germany)

08/2015 - 10/2015 Research Intern at Volkswagen AG, Wolfsburg
04/2013 - 07/2016 Student Tutor for various classes, Technische Universität München and Technion
02/2008 - 08/2008 Software Engineer, Equity Partners

Bichler, M., Milgrom, P., Schwarz, G., 2020. Taming the communication and computation complexity of combinatorial auctions: The FUEL bid language. Management Science (accepted).
Schwarz, G., Bichler, M., 2021b. How to trade thirty thousand products: A wholesale market design for road capacity. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice (in 2nd round of revisions).

Bichler, M., Fichtl, M., Schwarz, G., 2021. Walrasian equilibria from an optimization perspective: A guide to the literature. Naval Research Logistics (NRL) 68, 496–513. [link]

Schwarz, G., Bichler, M., 2022. Designing a large-scale wholesale mar- ket for urban congestion pricing, in: 17th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI22).
Schwarz, G., Bichler, M., 2021. How to trade thirty thousand products: A wholesale market design for road capacity, in: Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS2021).
Bichler, M., Milgrom, P., Schwarz, G., 2020. Taming the communication and computation complexity of combinatorial auctions: The FUEL bid language, in: Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST2020).

Auction Theory and Market Design (IN2211) - WS17/18, WS18/19, WS19/20, WS21/22
Operations Research (IN0022/IN0024) - SS18, SS19, SS20, SS21
Practical Course: Algorithms for Programming Contests (IN0012, IN2106) - WS17/18, WS18/19
Internet-based Information Systems (M.Sc. FIM) - WS17/18

Bachelor Thesis: Route Set Generation for a Congestion Pricing Market, Yi Fan, 2022
Bachelor Thesis: Graphic Visualization of 2D Linear Optimization Problems with TikZ, Florian Stang, 2022
Master Thesis: Analyzing Effects of Road Pricing on Travel Demand using MATSim, Burak Öz, 2021
Bachelor Thesis: Development of a Sensitivity Analysis Tool for the Simplex Method, Titus Ratzke, 2021
Bachelor Thesis: Geographic Distribution of Bidders in a Simulation Environment for the FUEL Bid Language, Janek Falkenstein, 2021
Bachelor Thesis: Development of a Simplex Algorithm Problem Generator, Yilmaz Sinan Gündüz, 2021
Bachelor Thesis: Visualization of Maximum Flow Algorithms with TikZ, Marvin Motzet, 2021
Interdisciplinary Project: Geographic Visualization of the FUEL Bid Language, Burak Öz, 2020
Master Thesis: Combinatorial Optimization with Quantum Computers, Christoph Winter, 2020
Interdisciplinary Project: Scalability analysis on bid-languages for combinatorial auctions, Christoph Winter & Markus Obrull, 2020
Bachelor Thesis: Verifying the Strong Substitutes Condition for Randomly Generated Assignment Messages, Minh Nhu Duong, 2019
Bachelor Thesis: Verifying M♮- Concavity for Randomly Generated Submodular Valuations, Anna Sirenko, 2019
Bachelor Thesis: A Framework for Verifying the Gross Substitutes Condition for Randomly Generated Valuations, David Curtis Hancock, 2018

Coach of TUM teams in the German Collegiate Programming Contest (GCPC) 2017-2021, Northwestern Europe Regional Contest (NWERC) 2017-2021, and ICPC World Finals 2019/2020/2022
Contest director of the German Collegiate Programming Contest (2017)
Jury member of the German Collegiate Programming Contest (2017 - 2021)
Local contest site organizer of the German Collegiate Programming Contest and FAU Wintercontest (since 2017)
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