Roland Schmid

I obtained my PhD as a member of the Networked Systems Group (NSG) supervised by Prof. Dr. Laurent Vanbever. My technical background lies in theoretical computer science, algorithms, distributed computing, and system design. My research interests & projects range from fault-tolerant distributed systems to studying networks’ forwarding behavior during convergence, with an overarching goal to increase the reliability of crucial services on the Internet.

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 June 2018 until August 2021, I served as a member of the teaching commission (UK) of the department D-ITET of ETH. From September 2020, my research focus moved towards networking, specifically pursuing projects on trust in programmable networks and transient network verification & synthesis. I graduated with a PhD in May 2025.

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Supervised Theses