Romain Jacob
Post-doc

Romain Jacob

I am postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich in the group of Prof. Laurent Vanbever. I am current leading the Sustainable Networking area of research within the group.

More generally, I worked communication protocols, (real-time) scheduling theory, and statistics applied to experimental design; among others.

In 2019, I completed my doctoral studies under the supervision of Prof. Lothar Thiele, also at ETH. My dissertation is entitled “Leveraging Synchronous Transmissions for the Design of Real-time Wireless Cyber-Physical Systems.” Before joining ETH, I obtained a Master of Science in Engineering of Complex Systems (2015) and Master for Faculty Training for Higher Education (2013) both from École Normale Supérieure de Cachan (now ENS Paris-Saclay). In 2014, I spent a year in UC Berkeley as visiting scholar under the supervision of Prof. Karl Hedrick.

I am an Open Science enthusiast and try to advocating for it whenever I can. When time allows, I am also involved in science communication projects.

Research Areas

Talks

Fantastic Joules and Where to Find Them. Modeling and Optimizing Router Energy Demand

Video Publication

What does that really tell us? Interpreting numbers in sustainability reports

Slides Publication

The Internet is Getting Emptier; That's a Sustainability Problem

Video

What keeps your network up at night? A link sleeping study of Switch LAN

Slides

Sustainable Networking - AdvNet 2023

Slides

On taking network power down

Slides

The Internet of tomorrow must sleep more and grow old - RIPE87 (2023)

Slides

The Internet of tomorrow must sleep more and grow old - HotCarbon (2022)

Slides Publication

Publications

Joseph Cook, Romain Jacob, Jo Lindsay Walton, Adrien Berthelot, Asim Hussain, and Daniel Schien
Working Paper
Romain Jacob, Lukas Röllin, Jackie Lim, Jonathan Chung, Maurice Béhanzin, Weiran Wang, Andreas Hunziker, Theodor Moroianu, Seyedali Tabaeiaghdaei, Adrian Perrig, and Laurent Vanbever
IMC '25
Romain Jacob, Marco Zimmerling, Carlo Alberto Boano, Laurent Vanbever, and Lothar Thiele
JSys '21

Available Theses

Running Theses

The Sustainability Impact of Scaling Strategies in Distributed Computing (BA)
Student: Carlos Reichenbach de Sousa
Supervisors: Romain Jacob, Michal Friedman, Moritz Lumme, Andreas Schmidt, and Laurent Vanbever

Supervised Theses

Data Visualization of Switzerland's Resarch and Education Network (Group project)
Student: Simon Englert, Leonard Wechsler
Supervisors: Romain Jacob and Laurent Vanbever
Greening the Internet by putting networks to sleep (BA)
Student: Andri Furrer
Supervisors: Romain Jacob and Laurent Vanbever
21st century data visualization for enhancing student learning (BA)
Student: Teodora Rajkovic
Supervisors: Romain Jacob, Edgar Costa Molero, and Laurent Vanbever
Advancing packet-level traffic predictions with Transformers (MA)
Student: Siddhant Ray
Supervisors: Laurent Vanbever, Alexander Dietmüller, and Romain Jacob
Advancing Predictions for Video Streaming with Transformers (SA)
Student: Lukas Röllin
Supervisors: Alexander Dietmüller, Romain Jacob, and Laurent Vanbever
Routing in P4 (SA)
Student: Zhengqing Liu
Supervisors: Romain Jacob, Roland Schmid, and Laurent Vanbever
Process Mining for Networking (SA)
Student: Kévin Selänne
Supervisors: Romain Jacob and Laurent Vanbever
In Search of Network Shifts (BA)
Student: Fredrik Nestaas
Supervisors: Alexander Dietmüller and Romain Jacob