Alexander Dobler

Alexander Dobler is a PreDoc Researcher at the Algorithms and Complexity Department of Technische Universität Wien. His research focuses on algorithmic visualization, graph drawing, and combinatorial optimization. He contributes to optimizing layout algorithms for diagrams, treemaps, and storylines, with a particular emphasis on minimizing crossings and corners in geometric representations.

Key projects include 'Engineering Linear Ordering Algorithms' (2020–2025) and participation in the PACE competition with solver 'Touiouidth'. His work bridges theoretical computer science with practical visualization challenges, addressing both discrete mathematics and computational geometry.

• Education: BSc, Dipl.-Ing. (engineering degree)
• Labs/Teams: Part of the Algorithms and Complexity group at TU Wien
• Grants: Involved in HumAlgo (2018–2023) and REVEAL-AI (2020–2024)

His recent publications (2023–2025) address topics like cluster vertex splitting complexity, hoop diagrams for set visualization, and optimizing linear diagrams. He has supervised Marcel Holzmüller’s 2025 diploma thesis on expanding planar storyplan problems.