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Roger Wattenhofer

Roger Wattenhofer

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Computer Science
Switzerland
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
94
Citations
35575
World Ranking
484
National Ranking
15

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Roger Wattenhofer is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and has made substantial contributions to the field of computer science. Their work spans several key areas within the discipline, including artificial intelligence, computer networks and communications, information systems, computer vision and pattern recognition, and management science and operations research.

The scientist's research topics encompass a range of subjects, notably blockchain technology applications and security, topic modeling, advanced graph neural networks, auction theory and applications, distributed systems and fault tolerance, natural language processing techniques, and fintech, crowdfunding, and digital finance.

Roger Wattenhofer has published extensively, with a strong presence in respected venues. Some of the most frequent publication outlets include arXiv (Cornell University), the Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl), SSRN Electronic Journal, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, and Theoretical Computer Science.

The following papers showcase recent research contributions:

  • How Live Streaming Changes Shopping Decisions in E-commerce: A Study of Live Streaming Commerce, 2022, Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
  • EpilepsyGAN: Synthetic Epileptic Brain Activities With Privacy Preservation, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
  • The YouTube Social Network, 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • Cyclic Arbitrage in Decentralized Exchanges, 2022, Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2022
  • Impact and User Perception of Sandwich Attacks in the DeFi Ecosystem, 2022, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Lioba Heimbach
  • Florian Grötschla
  • Yann Vonlanthen
  • Pál András Papp
  • Robin Fritsch

Their publication record reflects significant engagement with emerging and interdisciplinary topics, particularly in decentralized systems and blockchain-related applications. The range of venues and coauthors indicates active collaboration within the scholarly community and contributions both to foundational theory and practical applications.

Best Publications

  • On Scaling Decentralized Blockchains

    Kyle Croman;Christian Decker;Ittay Eyal;Adem Efe Gencer

  • Information propagation in the Bitcoin network

    Christian Decker;Roger Wattenhofer

  • Distributed topology control for power efficient operation in multihop wireless ad hoc networks

    R. Wattenhofer;L. Li;P. Bahl;Y.-M. Wang

  • Farsite: federated, available, and reliable storage for an incompletely trusted environment

    Atul Adya;William J. Bolosky;Miguel Castro;Gerald Cermak

  • Achieving high utilization with software-driven WAN

    Chi-Yao Hong;Srikanth Kandula;Ratul Mahajan;Ming Zhang

  • Geometric ad-hoc routing: of theory and practice

    Fabian Kuhn;Rogert Wattenhofer;Yan Zhang;Aaron Zollinger

  • Worst-Case optimal and average-case efficient geometric ad-hoc routing

    Fabian Kuhn;Rogert Wattenhofer;Aaron Zollinger

  • Does topology control reduce interference

    Martin Burkhart;Pascal von Rickenbach;Rogert Wattenhofer;Aaron Zollinger

  • A Fast and Scalable Payment Network with Bitcoin Duplex Micropayment Channels

    Christian Decker;Roger Wattenhofer

  • Analysis of a cone-based distributed topology control algorithm for wireless multi-hop networks

    Li Li;Joseph Y. Halpern;Paramvir Bahl;Yi-Min Wang

  • Complexity in geometric SINR

    Olga Goussevskaia;Yvonne Anne Oswald;Rogert Wattenhofer

  • A cone-based distributed topology-control algorithm for wireless multi-hop networks

    Li Li;Joseph Y. Halpern;Paramvir Bahl;Yi-Min Wang

  • Dynamic scheduling of network updates

    Xin Jin;Hongqiang Harry Liu;Rohan Gandhi;Srikanth Kandula

  • Gradient clock synchronization in wireless sensor networks

    Philipp Sommer;Roger Wattenhofer

  • XTC: a practical topology control algorithm for ad-hoc networks

    R. Wattenhofer;A. Zollinger

  • What cannot be computed locally

    Fabian Kuhn;Thomas Moscibroda;Rogert Wattenhofer

  • Free Riding in BitTorrent is Cheap.

    Thomas Locher;Patrick Moor;Stefan Schmid;Roger Wattenhofer

  • Dozer: ultra-low power data gathering in sensor networks

    Nicolas Burri;Pascal von Rickenbach;Rogert Wattenhofer

  • Distributed topology control for wireless multi-hop sensor networks

    Paramvir Bahl;Li Li;Yi-Min Wang;Roger P. Wattenhofer

  • Asymptotically optimal geometric mobile ad-hoc routing

    Fabian Kuhn;Rogert Wattenhofer;Aaron Zollinger

  • Geometric ad-hoc routing

    Fabian Kuhn;Roger Wattenhofer;Yan Zhang;Aaron Zollinger

Frequent Co-Authors

Fabian Kuhn
Fabian Kuhn University of Freiburg
Stefan Schmid
Stefan Schmid Technical University of Berlin
Thomas Moscibroda
Thomas Moscibroda Microsoft (United States)
Peter Widmayer
Peter Widmayer ETH Zurich
Magnús M. Halldórsson
Magnús M. Halldórsson Reykjavík University
John R. Douceur
John R. Douceur Microsoft (United States)
Maurice Herlihy
Maurice Herlihy Brown University
Paramvir Bahl
Paramvir Bahl Microsoft (United States)
David Peleg
David Peleg Weizmann Institute of Science
Yi-Min Wang
Yi-Min Wang Microsoft (United States)

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