Stefan Schmid
Principle Investigator
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolStefan Schmid is a professor and principal investigator based in Berlin who blends deep theoretical expertise in distributed systems with applied research in network architectures and cybersecurity. With an academic foundation from ETH Zurich and postdoctoral training across top German institutions, he has held senior roles at Deutsche Telekom/T-Labs, led university groups in Aalborg and Vienna, and now splits his time between TU Berlin, Fraunhofer SIT and the Weizenbaum Institute. His work sits at the intersection of theory and practice—recognized by an ERC Consolidator Grant and the IEEE Communications Society ITC Early Career Award—and extends into editorial leadership as Editor-in-Chief of the EATCS Bulletin and an editor for IEEE/ACM ToN. He has international visiting appointments and a track record of translating research into impact, including co-founding the startup Stacktile under Germany’s EXIST program. Less obvious: his early training included economics and a CERN internship, giving him a rare blend of algorithmic rigor, systems perspective, and cross-disciplinary thinking.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
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Github Skills (3)
plane5
ccr5
latex2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
schmiste/schmiste.github.io
Jun 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:198 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
schmiste/ccr-template
Mar 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 10 months
latex-templatelatexccr
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