Short Bio for Academics
Roger Wattenhofer is Head of Research at Anza, the core infrastructure firm in the Solana ecosystem. He is also a full professor in the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He received his doctorate in Computer Science from ETH Zurich. Previously, he spent several years at Microsoft Research in Redmond, as well as at Brown University and Macquarie University. Roger Wattenhofer’s research interests span a variety of algorithmic and systems aspects in computer science and information technology, for instance algorithms, distributed computing, networks or machine learning. His work has received multiple distinctions, including the Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing for his contributions to distributed approximation, and the Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing for the publication "Distributed Verification and Hardness of Distributed Approximation." He is the author of "Blockchain Science: Distributed Ledger Technology," which has been translated into Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese.
Short Bio for General Audience
Roger Wattenhofer is Head of Research at Anza and professor at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Previously, he spent several years at Microsoft Research, Brown University, and Macquarie University. His work has received multiple distinctions, including the Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing and the Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize. He is the author of "Blockchain Science: Distributed Ledger Technology," which has been translated into Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese.
Short Bio in German
Roger Wattenhofer ist Forschungsleiter bei Anza und Professor an der ETH Zürich. Zuvor arbeitete er mehrere Jahre bei Microsoft Research sowie an der Brown University und der Macquarie University. Seine wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten wurden mehrfach ausgezeichnet, unter anderem mit dem Preis für Innovation in Distributed Computing und dem Edsger W. Dijkstra Preis. Er ist Autor des Buches "Blockchain Science: Distributed Ledger Technology", das ins Chinesische, Koreanische und Vietnamesische übersetzt wurde.
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