Thesis
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).
Teaser
Here is an overview of the chapters covered in the main body of the presentation.
Here are the remaining chapters discussed during the Q&A session.
Slides
These are the main slides used during my PhD thesis presentation.
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Video
I made this recording after my PhD defense, as recording during the defense was not permitted under TUB regulations.
The recording may be updated in the near future.
Manuscript
The manuscript will be added soon, once the official procedures at TU Berlin are complete.
Get in touch
If you are interested in this talk, please reach out to me. I would be more than happy to present it to your group or build on the ideas discussed here.
References
- SpiderDAN: Matching Augmentation in Demand-Aware Networks. ALENEX 2025. (Brief announcement, SPAA 2024.)
- Hash & Adjust: Competitive Demand-Aware Consistent Hashing. OPODIS 2024.
- The Augmentation-Speed Tradeoff for Consistent Network Updates. SOSR 2022.
- Demand-Aware Multi-Source IP-Multicast: Minimal Congestion via Link Weight Optimization. IFIP NETWORKING 2025.
- SeedTree: A Dynamically Optimal and Local Self-Adjusting Tree. INFOCOM 2023.
- Software-Defined Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: From Theory to End-to-End Implementation. Proceedings of the IEEE, 2022.

