About Us
Dr. Tobias Jacobs

Tobias generally enjoys working on challenging problems in Machine Learning and Computational Optimization. He is particularly interested in Reinforcement Learning techniques for problems with graph-structured data, representing both factual and procedural knowledge.

• Schmidt, M., Safarani, S., Gastinger, J., Jacobs, T., Nicolas, S., & Schülke, A. (2019, July). On the Performance of Differential Evolution for Hyperparameter Tuning. In 2019 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) (pp. 1-8). IEEE.
• Singh, P., Jacobs, T., Nicolas, S., & Schmidt, M. (2019). A study of the learning progress in neural architecture search techniques. arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.07590.
• Jacobs, T., Nicolas, S., Noh, T. G., Schuelke, A., Auer, H., Schwabeneder, D., ... & Terreros, O. (2018). Case Studies of Energy Grid Hybridization in a Northern European City. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 10(3), 1362-1369.
• Widl, E., Jacobs, T., Schwabeneder, D., Nicolas, S., Basciotti, D., Henein, S., ... & Auer, H. (2018). Studying the potential of multi-carrier energy distribution grids: A holistic approach. Energy, 153, 519-529.
• Siracusano, G., Bifulco, R., Trevisan, M., Jacobs, T., Kuenzer, S., Salsano, S., ... & Huici, F. (2017). Re-designing dynamic content delivery in the light of a virtualized infrastructure. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 35(11), 2574-2585.
• Jacobs, T., & Longo, S. (2015, June). A study of caching strategies for Web service discovery. In 2015 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (pp. 464-471). IEEE.
• Höhn, Wiebke, and Tobias Jacobs. "On the performance of Smith’s rule in single-machine scheduling with nonlinear cost." ACM Transactions on Algorithms (TALG) 11.4 (2015): 1-30.
• Cirillo, F., & Jacobs, T. (2014, August). Link discovery in social networks. In 2014 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2014) (pp. 898-905). IEEE.
• Jacobs, T. (2012). Analytical aspects of tie breaking. Theoretical Computer Science, 465, 1-9.
• Cicalese, F., Jacobs, T., Laber, E., & Valentim, C. (2012). The binary identification problem for weighted trees. Theoretical Computer Science, 459, 100-112.

• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_works&hl=de&user=WtXVrZ4AAAAJ
• LinkedIn: https://de.linkedin.com/in/tobias-jacobs-a51a4850