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 to improve network reliability.

Vita

I received both my Bachelor’s (2016) and Master’s Degree (2018) in Informatics from the Technical University of Munich, Germany. I started my PhD in June 2018 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 reviewing research papers, supervising student theses, as a teaching assistant and as a replacement lecturer. From September 2020, my research focus moved towards networking, covering projects on trust in programmable networks and transient network verification & synthesis. From June 2018 until August 2021, I was also a member of the teaching commission (UK) of the department D-ITET of ETH.

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