Patrick Nicholson joined Nokia Bell Labs in Dublin in March 2015. Prior to joining, from September 2013 until February 2015, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Algorithms and Complexity Group at the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik in Saarbrücken, Germany. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science in August 2013 from the David Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Canada. His primary research area is the study of highly optimized data structures, data compression algorithms, and graph algorithms, as well as their application to text mining and machine learning problems.  Patrick Nicholson joined Nokia Bell Labs in Dublin in March 2015. Prior to joining, from September 2013 until February 2015, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Algorithms and Complexity Group at the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik in Saarbrücken, Germany. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science in August 2013 from the David Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Canada. His primary research area is the study of highly optimized data structures, data compression algorithms, and graph algorithms, as well as their application to text mining and machine learning problems. 

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