I defended my PhD thesis, Demand-Aware Networks: Design, Adjust & Update, at TU Berlin on 2 September 2026 and received the grade with distinction (summa cum laude). See my slides, presentation video, and my thesis here.
Dr. Arash Pourdamghani
Postdoctoral researcher · TU Berlin
I am Arash, a postdoctoral researcher at the INET research group at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, working with Prof. Stefan Schmid. Furthermore, I am an associated researcher with the PLAMADISO research group at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society. I received my PhD in Computer Science from TU Berlin in September 2026. Previously I was a researcher at the University of Vienna and completed research internships at IST Austria and CUHK Hong Kong.
I have been previously received awards such as MacCracken PhD Fellowship, Oxford Berlin Research Partnership Flexible Funds, and has been partner in GeCo seed funding and BeeFAIRChain praxis-sprint funding from German agencies, among others.
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
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!
Publications
I am interested in algorithm design and analysis with applications in networks, distributed systems, and blockchains. My particular focus is on self-adjusting networks.
In theoretical computer science, authors are sorted alphabetically by default.
Demand-Aware Networks
Brief Announcement: Demand-Aware Consistent Hashing with Bounded Loads & Greedy Routing
Arash Pourdamghani, Chen Avin, and Stefan Schmid
The 5th Symposium on Algorithmic Foundations of Dynamic Networks (SAND 2026)
SpiderDAN: Matching Augmentation in Demand-Aware Networks
Aleksander Figiel, Darya Melnyk, André Nichterlein, Arash Pourdamghani, and Stefan Schmid
SIAM Symposium on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX 2025)
BSB: Towards Demand-Aware Peer Selection With XOR-based Routing
Qingyun Ji, Darya Melnyk, Arash Pourdamghani, and Stefan Schmid
Brief Announcement: Minimizing the Weighted Average Shortest Path Length in Demand-Aware Networks via Matching Augmentation
Aleksander Figiel, Darya Melnyk, André Nichterlein, Arash Pourdamghani, and Stefan Schmid
ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA 2024)
Hash & Adjust: Competitive Demand-Aware Consistent Hashing
Arash Pourdamghani, Chen Avin, Robert Sama, Maryam Shiran, and Stefan Schmid
The 28th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2024)
Self-Adjusting Partially Ordered Lists
Vamsi Addanki, Maciej Pacut, Arash Pourdamghani, Gabor Retvari, Stefan Schmid, and Juan Vanerio
Network Traffic Engineering
A Tutorial on Controlling Metasurfaces from the Network Perspective
Christos Liaskos, Evangelos Papapetrou, Kostas Katsalis, Dimitrios Tyrovolas, Alexandros Papadopoulos, Stavros Tsimpoukis, Arash Pourdamghani, Max Franke, and Stefan Schmid
under review
Rethinking Fronthaul Topologies for Cell-Free 6G Networks
Max Franke, Arash Pourdamghani, Fabian Göttsch, Stefan Schmid, and Giuseppe Caire
IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2026)
Demand-Aware Multi-Source IP-Multicast: Minimal Congestion via Link Weight Optimization
Matthias Bentert, Max Franke, Darya Melnyk, Arash Pourdamghani, and Stefan Schmid
International Federation for Information Processing Networking Conference (IFIP NETWORKING 2025)
Optimizing Fronthaul Quantization for Flexible User Load in Cell-Free Massive MIMO
Fabian Göttsch, Max Franke, Arash Pourdamghani, Giuseppe Caire, and Stefan Schmid
Software-Defined Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: From Theory to End-to-End Implementation
Christos Liaskos, Lefteris Mamatas, Arash Pourdamghani, Ageliki Tsioliaridou, Sotiris Ioannidis, Andreas Pitsillides, Stefan Schmid, and Ian F. Akyildiz
Blockchain & Concurrent Systems
DecentPeeR: A Self-Incentivised & Inclusive Decentralized Peer Review System
Johannes Gruendler, Darya Melnyk, Arash Pourdamghani, and Stefan Schmid
Poster at IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC 2024)
Probabilistic smart contracts: Secure randomness on the blockchain
Krishnendu Chatterjee, Amir Kafshdar Goharshady, and Arash Pourdamghani
IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC 2019)
Hybrid Mining: Exploiting Blockchain's Computational Power for Distributed Problem Solving
Krishnendu Chatterjee, Amir Kafshdar Goharshady, and Arash Pourdamghani
Polynomial-Time Fence Insertion for Structured Programs
Mohammad Taheri, Arash Pourdamghani, and Mohsen Lesani
International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2019)
Dissertation
Miscellaneous
Opening Gates of Knowledge: Wikimedia as an Ecosystem of Co-Creation
Mohammad Heidarzadeh and Arash Pourdamghani
First Grand Challenges Conference of the Berlin University Alliance (Grand Challenges 2026)
Compressed Bundle Reporting for Reliable Bundle Transmission in Disruption-Tolerant Networking
Aida-Stefania Manole, Felix Flentge, Stefan Schmid, Arash Pourdamghani, and Max Franke
17th International Conference on Space Operations (SpaceOps 2023)
Supervision
Supervision
I am delighted to be able to mentor the following students in the past few years.
Thesis Supervision
2026BScTU Berlin
Eren Kayakiran
Learning-augmented Consistent Hashing with Bounded Loads
2025BScTU Berlin
Sebastian Wojciechowski
Development and evaluation of a joint physical and network simulator for cell-free networks
2025BScTU Berlin
Luca Lichterman
Temperature-Based Cache Control for LLMs
2025BScTU Berlin
Irem Gizer
Exploring Trade-offs in Structured P2P Message Dissemination Protocols
2025BScTU Berlin
Vera Wagner
Empirical Assessment of Advice Augmented Skip Graphs
2025BScTU Berlin
Baki Berkay Uzel
Resource-Optimized Blockchain-Based Peer Review System
2024BScTU Berlin
Maria Cole
A Sliding Window Approach to Designing Self-Adjusting Networks
2024MScTU Berlin
Qingyun Ji
Decentralized and Demand-Aware Peer Selection Algorithms
2023BScTU Berlin
Johannes Gründler
Fair and Secure Blockchain-Based Peer Review System
2023BScTU Berlin
Anton Jurß
Improving Self-Adjusting Networks by Reordering Communication Requests
2023MScTU Berlin
Nedyalko Stanchev
Fast and Efficient Algorithm for the Minimum Linear Arrangement Problem on Series Parallel Graphs
2022BScTU Berlin
Qingyun Ji
Frequency Distribution of Nash Equilibria in Public Goods Game
Undergraduate Research Interns
2023-24TU Berlin
Bahar Oveisgharan
Masters at York University
2023-24TU Berlin
Helia Yazdanyar
Masters at University of Waterloo
2022-23TU Berlin
Dorsa Majdi
Research Intern at EPFL
2022-23University of Vienna
Esra Ceylan
Masters at TU Wien
2021-2022University of Vienna
Marzieh Aliakbarpour
PhD. at The Pennsylvania State University
2021-2022University of Vienna
Andre Loric
Intern at Wavestone
2021-2022University of Vienna
Siddhesh Kalekar
Intern at GreatFour Systems
Teaching
Teaching
2024-2025Lecturer
AI/ML in Networked Systems Seminar
TU Berlin, Germany
2023-2025Lecturer
Advanced Topics in Networked and Distributed Systems Seminar
TU Berlin, Germany
2022-PresentTutor & Guest lecture
Algorithms for Networked Systems
TU Berlin, Germany
2022-PresentLecturer
Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Networks Seminar
TU Berlin, Germany
2024-2025Lecturer
Networked Systems Security Seminar
TU Berlin, Germany
2024-2025Tutor
Blockchain Technology and Decentralized Applications
TU Berlin, Germany
2024Tutor
Algorithms for Distributed Systems
TU Berlin, Germany
2021Tutor
Network Protocols and Architectures
TU Berlin, Germany
2016-2019Teaching Assistance
Data Structures and Algorithms
Sharif University of Technology
2017-2019Teaching Assistance
Algorithmic Game Theory
Sharif University of Technology
2018Teaching Assistance
Algorithms Design and Analysis
Sharif University of Technology
2014-2016Lecturer
Preparation Classes for National Olympiad in Informatics
Across Iran
2015Teaching Assistance
Fundamentals of Programming
Sharif University of Technology
Service
Academic Service
PC Member
FC CAAW 2026
FC CAAW 2025
PODC 2024 (Junior PC)
Reviewer
DISC 2026
TON 2026
TON 2025
DLT 2025
TON 2024
SIROCCO 2023
ITU J-FET on Intelligent Surfaces 2022
ACM Computing Surveys 2020
Subreviewer
INFOCOM 2027
CCS 2025
SIROCCO 2025
SIGMETRICS 2025
HoTNets 2025
DISC 2024
PODC 2024
CCS 2024
SIGMETRICS 2024
DSN 2024
NSDI 2024
PODC 2023
SPAA 2023
NSDI 2023
ESA 2022
CoNEXT 2022
DISC 2022
AFT 2022
Voluntary Service
Rayacast Podcast
Founder & organizer, 2022
Persian Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Co-founder & co-organizer
TEDxSUT
Founding member
Seminar Series in Advanced Computer Science
Organizing team, panelist, and speaker
ACM-ICPC Asia Region, Tehran Site
Organizing team
Talks
Talks
2026
2025
The DISCOGA Research Seminar
2025
OPODIS'25
2024
SPAA'24
2024
PODC'24
2024
2024
Freie Universität Berlin
2023
2023
INFOCOM'23
2022
SOSR'22
2019
SAC'19
Grants & Awards
Grants & Awards
BeeFAIRChain Praxis-Sprint, as part of DATIpilot BioBlock Innovationscommunity, funded by Federal Ministry for Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) in Germany.
Oxford Berlin Research Partnership Flexible Funds
Trilateral Seed Funding Initiative, GeCo (TU Berlin, University of Oxford, Siemens AG)
Student Travel Grant (Web4Good for WebSci)
PhD Grant for ERC project self-adjusting networks
Career Grant (FFG Austria)
MacCracken PhD Fellowship (NYU)
Student Travel Grant (ACM SIGAPP for SAC)
2-month scholarship (OeAD-GmbH)
Awarded for Success in Studies (Sharif University of Technology)
Silver Medal in Iranian National Olympiad in Informatics
Tools
Tools
Next Related Deadlines
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CV
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