Personal information

• Email: ernest(dot)vanwijland(at)irif.fr
• French and Dutch, 23 years old, living in Paris
• my resume

Education

• 2024 - Present: PhD student at IRIF in Computer Science
• 2020 - 2024: Scholar at ENS Paris in Computer Science
• 2018 - 2020: CPGE at Lycée Louis-le-Grand

Research

• From September 2024: PhD at IRIF in Paris, working under Claire Mathieu and Vincent Cohen-Addad's supervision on approximation algorithms for clustering
• September 2023 - August 2024: internship at IRIF in Paris, working under Claire Mathieu's supervision on approximating generalizations of Euclidean TSP
• January - August 2023: internship in Polytechnique, France, working under Hang Zhou's supervision on approximating the Euclidean CVRP, k-TSP and k-MST
• March - August 2022: internship in EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, working under Ola Svensson's supervision on approximating the 2-WECSS problem
• June - July 2021: internship in MPI Informatics Sarrebruck, Germany, working with Kurt Mehlhorn on the Fair Division Problem
• March - May 2021: worked under Laure Dumaz's supervision in the DMA ENS on the Spectrum of Heavy-Tailed Random Matrices

Interests (besides Science)

• Musicology: minoring in Musicology in ENS
• Piano and Music Theory: graduated from the Juvisy Conservatory in 2018
• Judo (black belt) and Tennis