
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.
Research Areas
Teaching
- Advanced Topics in Communication Networks: 2022–2023 (TA / IT Infrastructure)
- Discrete Event Systems: 2020 (TA), 2021–2023 (Head TA)
- Computer and Network Laboratory: 2019–2020 (TA)
- Distributed Systems: 2018 (TA), 2019 (Head TA)
Publications
Supervised Theses
Student: Georg Schwan
Supervisors: Roland Schmid, Tibor Schneider, and Laurent Vanbever
Student: Hande Harputluoglu
Supervisors: Roland Schmid, Tobias Bühler, Georgia Fragkouli, and Laurent Vanbever
Student: Hande Harputluoglu
Supervisors: Tobias Bühler, Roland Schmid, and Laurent Vanbever
Student: Maximilian Stabel
Supervisors: Roland Schmid, Tibor Schneider, and Laurent Vanbever
Student: Kaishuo Zhang
Supervisors: Roland Schmid and Laurent Vanbever
Student: Sandro Lutz
Supervisors: Tobias Bühler, Roland Schmid, and Laurent Vanbever
Student: Yu Chen
Supervisors: Tibor Schneider, Roland Schmid, and Laurent Vanbever
Student: Dominic Bieri
Supervisors: Roland Schmid and Laurent Vanbever
Student: Zhengqing Liu
Supervisors: Romain Jacob, Roland Schmid, and Laurent Vanbever