Roland Schmid

I am a last-year PhD student at the Networked Systems Group (NSG) led by Prof. Dr. Laurent Vanbever. My technical background lies in theoretical computer science, algorithms, distributed computing, and system design. My current research interests & projects relate to verification and synthesis of distributed network configurations to improve network reliability.

Professional Vita

I received both my Bachelor’s (2016) and Master’s Degree (2018) in Informatics from the Technical University of Munich, Germany. My career as a researcher started 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 also gathered 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, specifically pursuing projects on trust in programmable networks and transient network verification & synthesis. From June 2018 until August 2021, I served as a member of the teaching commission (UK) of the department D-ITET of ETH.

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Supervised Theses