Jakub Nalepa, a Polish software engineer at Future Processing, achieved the best result in the prestigious international competition for algorithmicists organised by the renowned Norwegian SINTEF project in 2011. Nalepa improved the previous record for a single instance of benchmarking problems by 30% – a considerable margin in this discipline.

Nalepa’s solution, which involves parallel memetic and heuristic algorithms, improves upon the best known result in the world for benchmarking problem instances found by Gehring and Homberger. His solution has been published on the SINTEF website, along with other world-leading results. Nalepa’s completed his master’s dissertation, which examined the algorithm, at the Silesian University of Technology in Southern Poland.