Brief Biography
Lars Arge was a Professor of Computer Science at Aarhus University, as well as Director of Center for Massive Data Algorithmics (MADALGO) funded by the Danish National Research Foundation.

He obtained his Ph.D. from Aarhus University in 1996 and from 1996 to 2004 he was at Duke University in the US. He worked in the area of algorithms and data structures with main research interest in the area of memory-hierarchy efficient algorithms, especially I/O-efficient algorithms for problems involving big data. He has worked on theoretical big data problems in many fundamental areas, but has also investigated the practical merits of theoretically developed algorithms in several projects. The dual interest in theory and practice has e.g. lead to several open source software packages. Lars was also co-founder and chairman of the company Scalable Algorithmics (SCALGO) established to commercialize I/O-efficient algorithms technology for efficient processing of big terrain data. His research and results have been features numerous times in the media.