Roland Schmid
PhD student

Roland Schmid

I am a last year PhD student at the Networked Systems Group (NSG) led by Prof. Dr. Laurent Vanbever. I have a background in theoretical computer science and distributed computing, with a focus on fault-tolerance. My current research interests lie in verification and synthesis of distributed network configurations.

Vita

I received both my Bachelor’s (2016) and Master’s Degree (2018) in Informatics from the Technical University of Munich, Germany. From June 2018 to August 2020, I was a researcher at the Distributed Computing Group under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Roger Wattenhofer. While I was mostly working on developing byzantine fault-tolerant systems, I have gathered additional experience in supervising student theses, as a teaching assistant and as a replacement lecturer. Until fall 2021, I was also a member of the teaching commission (UK) of the D-ITET departement of ETH. From September 2020, my research focus moved towards networking, covering projects on trust in programmable networks and transient network verification & synthesis.

Teaching

Publications

Supervised Theses

Trace search and traffic generation (MA)
Student: Hande Harputluoglu
Supervisors: Roland Schmid, Tobias Bühler, Georgia Fragkouli, and Laurent Vanbever
Generating live network traffic out of millions of code repositories (SA)
Student: Hande Harputluoglu
Supervisors: Tobias Bühler, Roland Schmid, and Laurent Vanbever
A Model for BGP Convergence (SA)
Student: Maximilian Stabel
Supervisors: Roland Schmid, Tibor Schneider, and Laurent Vanbever
Measuring Transient Disruption in Distributed Routing Protocols (MA)
Student: Kaishuo Zhang
Supervisors: Roland Schmid and Laurent Vanbever
Open source-based traffic traces (MA)
Student: Sandro Lutz
Supervisors: Tobias Bühler, Roland Schmid, and Laurent Vanbever
Analysis of Convergence Processes in Internet Networks (MA)
Student: Yu Chen
Supervisors: Tibor Schneider, Roland Schmid, and Laurent Vanbever
Networking meets BFT – Extended! (BA)
Student: Dominic Bieri
Supervisors: Roland Schmid and Laurent Vanbever
Routing in P4 (SA)
Student: Zhengqing Liu
Supervisors: Romain Jacob, Roland Schmid, and Laurent Vanbever
Networking meets BFT (SA)
Student: Marc Ilunga
Supervisors: Roland Schmid and Laurent Vanbever