Yegor Gorbachev

Yegor is a PhD student in theoretical computer science at ETH Zürich. He received his Bachelor’s degree from Saint Petersburg State University in 2022 and his Master’s degree from Saarland University in 2025. His research interests are in fine-grained complexity and algorithm design, with a focus on developing optimal algorithms and proving conditional lower bounds under standard complexity assumptions.

Before and during his university studies, he was active in mathematics and competitive programming competitions reaching the "Legendary Grandmaster" title on Codeforces. He is also the creator of a competitive programming YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/peltorator). Yegor has extensive teaching experience, including teaching at training camps as well as high school and university courses.