Roger Wattenhofer

Roger Wattenhofer,^[1] born in 1969, is a Swiss computer scientist, active in the field of distributed computing, networking, and algorithms.^[2][3] He is a professor at ETH Zurich (Switzerland) since 2001. He has published numerous research articles in computer science^[4][5] and a book on Bitcoin.^[6]

Roger Wattenhofer
Born	(1969-11-17) November 17, 1969 (age 55) Schwyz, Switzerland
Nationality	Swiss
Alma mater	ETH Zurich
Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science
Institutions	ETH Zurich, Brown University, Microsoft Research
Thesis	Distributed Counting – How to Bypass Bottlenecks (1998)
Doctoral advisor	Peter Widmayer
Website	disco.ethz.ch/members/wroger

In 2012, Wattenhofer won the Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing, awarded annually at the SIROCCO conference.^[7] Together with Christian Decker in 2014,^[8] he uncovered that nearly 850,000 of the Bitcoins lost by Mt. Gox could not have been stolen by malleability attacks, as claimed by Mt. Gox.^[9][10] In 2017, he appeared in a movie about the Blockchain.^[11]

Selected publications

• Hong, Chi-Yao; Kandula, Srikanth; Mahajan, Ratul; Zhang, Ming; Gill, Vijay; Nanduri, Mohan; Wattenhofer, Roger (27 August 2013). "Achieving high utilization with software-driven WAN". ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. 43 (4): 15–26. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.306.9382. doi:10.1145/2534169.2486012.
• Lenzen, Christoph; Locher, Thomas; Wattenhofer, Roger (1 January 2010). "Tight bounds for clock synchronization". Journal of the ACM. 57 (2): 1–42. doi:10.1145/1667053.1667057. S2CID 481610.
• Herlihy, Maurice; Kuhn, Fabian; Tirthapura, Srikanta; Wattenhofer, Roger (25 September 2006). "Dynamic Analysis of the Arrow Distributed Protocol" (PDF). Theory of Computing Systems. 39 (6): 875–901. doi:10.1007/s00224-006-1251-9. hdl:20.500.11850/24309. S2CID 6126587.