Curriculum Vitae
| Employment | |
|---|---|
| Since Oct 22 | Director of Research at DFINITY, Zurich, Switzerland (Leading research departments P2P, systems and security) |
| May 21 - Oct 22 | Senior RnD Manager at DFINITY, Zurich, Switzerland (Leading engineering and research teams for testing and verification, networking, protocol design, performance and security) |
| Aug 20-May 21 | Staff Researcher at DFINITY, Zurich, Switzerland (Leading and executing research projects on networking and distributed computing e.g., upgrades, topology change, bootstrapping) |
| Jan 19 - Jul 20 | Senior Researcher at DFINITY, Zurich, Switzerland (Leading and executing research projects on networking and distributed computing, e.g., consensus, gossiping, state synchronization, sharding) |
| Jul 17 - Dec 18 | Principal Scientist at ABB Corporate Research, Daettwil, Switzerland (Leading and executing research projects on substation automation, machine learning, secure storing and processing of data, fault-tolerance) |
| Sep 13 - Jun 17 | Senior Scientist at ABB Corporate Research, Daettwil, Switzerland (Leading and executing research projects on substation automation, public / private networks, real-time distributed algorithms) |
| Feb 13 - Aug 20 | Lecturer at EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), Switzerland (Teaching a master level course on Industrial Automation for computer science, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and communication system students) |
| Apr 11 - Sep 13 | Scientist at ABB Corporate Research, D ttwil, Switzerland (Leading and executing research projects on communication for smart grids, routing problems, future internet architecture, standardization, autoconfiguration, wireless, wired, and power line communication)\ |
| Jan 11 - Mar 11 | Postdoc at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel (Modeling and analysis of complex networks with Zvi Lotker and Chen Avin, Communication System Engineering Departement) |
| Jan - Dec 2010 | Postdoc at IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland (Projects in networking and algorithms, including design, analysis and implementation of protocols for data gathering, synchronization and topology control, scheduling and power control, monitoring churn in dynamic wireless networks) |
| Feb 08 - Dec 10 | Co founder and Software Engineer at Fybit GmbH (Security for Web 2.0 / Ajax applications by code analysis and automatic filter generation, participation in startup competitions and fundraising) |
| Education | |
| Apr 09 - Mar 09 | Ph.D. in Computer Science from ETH Zurich (Federal Institute of
Technology, Zurich, Switzerland) Thesis: Algorithmic Challenges in Wireless Networks: Interference, Energy and Incentives Defense Committee: Examiner: Roger Wattenhofer (ETH Zurich) Co-Examiner: Subhash Suri (UC Santa Barbara, USA) Co-Examiner: James Aspnes (Yale, USA) |
| Oct 01 - Mar 06 | M.Sc. in Computer Science ETH Zurich (Dipl.Inf.Ing ETH) Master Thesis: Weak Round Functions in Feistel Networks Major: Theoretical Computer Science, Advisor Ueli Maurer Minor: Algebra, Advisor Serge Vaudenay, EPF Lausanne |
| Professional Activities | |
| Co-Founder of Abstract Talk, a site for interviews on science and technology | |
| Program Co-Chair | SRDS 2021, BRAINS 2022 |
| Track Co-Chair | SSS 2016 |
| Program Committees | DSN 2022, DSN 2021, SIROCCO 2021, SRDS 2020, CoRes 2020, CoRes 2019, MeTRiD 2019, ICDCS 2018, IPDPS 2018, RTCSA 2018, ICDCS 2017, ICALP $ DCOSS 2011, ICCCN 2011, DCOSS 2010 |
| Publicity Chair | Sirocco 2012 |
| Registration Chair | PODC 2010 |
| Journal Reviews | Theory of Computing Systems, Transactions on Mobile Computing, Wireless Networks, IEEE Communications Letters, Ad Hoc Networks, Distributed Computing, Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications |
| Conference Reviews | AAAI, DISC, FOCS, FOMC, ICALP, ICDCN, INFOCOM, MOBIHOC, P2P, PODC, SODA, SPAA, SSS |