CV
EMPLOYMENT
Since Feb 2013 Lecturer at EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), Switzerland
(teaching a course on Industrial Automation)
Since Mar 2011 Scientist at ABB Corporate Research, Dättwil, Switzerland
(communication for smart grids)
Jan - Mar 2011 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 (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 Cofounder 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
March 2009 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)
2001 – 2006 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 Committees ICALP 2013, DISC 2013, PODC 2012, SSS 2012, Algosensors 2012,
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 DISC, FOCS, ICALP, ICDCN, INFOCOM, MOBIHOC, P2P,
PODC, SODA, SPAA
