I am a Ph.D. candidate at the INET research group at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, working under the supervision of Prof. Stefan Schmid. I am also an associated researcher with PLAMADISO research group at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society.

Previously I was a researcher at the University of Vienna and completed research internships at IST Austria and CUHK Hong Kong. I am interested in algorithm design and analysis with applications in networks, distributed systems, and blockchains. My particular focus is on self-adjusting networks.

email: lastname (at) tu-berlin (dot) de

Selected Publications

SpiderDAN: Matching Augmentation in Demand-Aware Networks

with Aleksander Figiel, Darya Melnyk, André Nichterlein, and Stefan Schmid
SIAM Symposium on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX 2025)
Paper, Citation

SeedTree: A Dynamically Optimal and Local Self-Adjusting Tree

with Chen Avin, Robert Sama, and Stefan Schmid
IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’23).
Paper, Slides, Citation, Video

The Augmentation-Speed Tradeoff for Consistent Network Updates

with Monika Henzinger, Ami Paz, Arash Pourdamghani, and Stefan Schmid
ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR 2022)
Paper, Slides, Citation, Video

Probabilistic smart contracts: Secure randomness on the blockchain

with Krishnendu Chatterjee and Amir Kafshdar Goharshady
IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC 2019)
Paper, Slides, Citation, Video

For the list of all publications, please check my research page.

Selected Student Supervision

Qingyun Ji (Bachelor and Master thesis, 2022 and 2024) → IBM

Helia Yazdanyar (Internship, 2023-24) → Masters at University of Waterloo

Johannes Gründler (Bachelor thesis, 2023) → Masters at University of Vienna

Marzieh Aliakbarpour (Internship, 2021-2022) → Phd at The Pennsylvania State University

For the full list of supversied students, please check here.