I am Arash, a researcher at the INET research group at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, working with Prof. Stefan Schmid. Previously, I was an associated researcher with the PLAMADISO research group at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society and a researcher at the University of Vienna. I also completed research internships at IST Austria and CUHK Hong Kong.
Throughout the years, my publications gathered 370+ citations, and I have been delighted to be a mentor for more than 15 students from across the world. My teaching experience in advanced theoretical and practical algorithmic concepts is going beyond 10 years, and I have been active in community service to ensure credibility and accessibility of knowledge. I am interested in algorithm design and analysis with applications in networks, distributed systems, and blockchains. My particular focus is on demand-aware and self-adjusting networks.
Academic email: lastname (at) tu-berlin (dot) de
Personal email: firstname (at) lastname (dot) net
Recent News
- I defended my PhD thesis, Demand-Aware Networks: Design, Adjust & Update, at TU Berlin on 2 September 2026 and received the grade very good with distinction (summa cum laude). See my slides, presentation video, and my thesis here.
- Our project, BeeFAIRChain, has just been fully accepted as part of DATIpilot BioBlock Innovationscommunity, funded by Federal Ministry for Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) in Germany.
- We have just been awarded Oxford Berlin Research Partnership Flexible Funds 2026!
- Our paper “Rethinking Fronthaul Topologies for Cell-Free 6G Networks” has been accepted in IEEE ICC 2026!
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, Slides, Citation
SeedTree: A Dynamically Optimal and Local Self-Adjusting Tree
with Chen Avin, Robert Sama, and Stefan Schmid
IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2023).
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