Dr. Heiko Schilling

Gousto is a British meal kit retailer, headquartered in London. The company was founded by Timo Boldt and James Carter in June 2012. Gousto offers recipe kit boxes which include fresh ingredients and step-by-step, chef-designed recipes. Gousto’s mission is to eliminate food waste. I am very happy to support Timo and the team at Gousto on their mission. Learn more: https://www.gousto.co.uk/

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KOMPAS was started by Tom and Olivia, two students living in Munich in 2015. There they developed the idea of a city exploration app to help people discover the amazing adventures hidden just around the corner. What's lurking in your city? Hidden Gems, Local Haunts & Unique Locations. Discover the undiscovered with KOMPAS. Your pocket guide to urban adventures. I am very happy to support Tom, Olivia, and the whole team at KOMPASS on their journey. Learn more: https://www.kompasapp.com/

Built up a world-class agile software development team of 250 people that delivers the basis for all TomTom navigation products. Helped to create a 100 million customer base and a profitable software business in Automotive which both contributed significantly to TomTom’s 1 billion euros annual revenue. Since 2015 leading TomTom's Product Unit Navigation as a startup within a corporation.

Became one of the first of 7 Fellows at TomTom (5,000 employees); 'Fellow' is the highest level in TomTom's technical career ladder, appointed by the board based on individual achievement. Developed the algorithm that made TomTom world-leading in routing. Led or was part of teams that delivered software and content assets for TomTom's unique product portfolio such as Fast & Accurate Route Planning, IQ Routes, Map Share, TomTom Traffic, Speed Cams, OpenLR.

Partnered with experts from science and software businesses to deliver consulting services to Automotive and other industries. More info at algorithmic-consultants.com

Developed algorithms on large scale road networks for static & dynamic routing, web services & hybrid routing as well as load-balanced routing to reduce traffic load and enable traffic management. Presented my results at more than 60 international conferences, published 11 papers. Managed grant applications (1.4m euros), organised conferences (250 participants each). PhD supported by Mercedes-Benz Technology and the German Research Foundation.

Supported Unix/Cisco network infrastructure with 36,000 servers

Managed Y2K software roll out to 3,000 PCs

Created an online shop system for bookstores. Sold over 80 shop systems, exhibited at Frankfurt Book Fair (DE). Sold the company in 1995 to Schweitzer Fachinformationen.

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Worked within a leading research team (Prof. Dr. Kai Nagel) on optimised route assignments in large scale multi-agent micro-simulations. Worked with Dr. Thomas Erlebach and his team on solutions for long-standing open research problems arising in the area of constrained network flows.

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Rolf H Moehring, Prof. Dr. Kai Nagel, and Dr. Thomas Erlebach; Developed realistic mathematical models and efficient algorithms for traffic assignments

Followed a Master’s course in Computer Science. Worked on parallel shortest-path-algorithms with Prof. Bill McColl. Member of the Somerville College, Oxford.

Thesis: ”Downwind numbering for pre-condition convection dominated problems”. Developed numbering strategies to speedup solvers for large equality systems. Areas of concentration: optimisation, algorithms and complexity, numerical analysis, and statistics.

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