Experience
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Since 5/2006, Assistant Consulting Professor and head of the Clean Slate Lab at Stanford University. Primarily working on the OpenFlow Standard and related topics. |
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Voltage Security from 11/2002 to 5/2006. Co-founded the company with Dan Boneh, Rishi Kacker and Matt Pauker in 2002. Raised initial round of funding and served as engineering manager, CTO and board member. |
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Principal Associate at Kappa IT Ventures, a Munich based early-stage Technology Fund from 2001-2002. |
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McKinsey & Company, Summer 1999. Worked as summer associate on redefining the e-commerce strategy for a major European software company. |
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Technology Analyst at Daimler-Benz, Tokyo, Japan. Summer 1997. |
From 1991 to 1994 I started a company with three friends (Tobias being one of them) that developed image maniulation software. We made lots of mistakes and I learned a lot about software development.
Education
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Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2005. Teaching experience in algorithms, networking and marketing. |
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May '96 to August '97 visiting research associate at the Institute of Industrial Science of the University of Tokyo in the group of Prof. Hideki Hashimoto. Work oncomputer vision, perceptual intelligence and man-machine interaction. |
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November '94 to August '95 visiting student at the LIFIA in the PRIMA group at the IMAG (which has since split), Grenoble with James L. Crowley. Work on Masters Thesis on feature based vision for robots. |
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Diplom (Master) in physics at the University of Karlsruhe in '96. Master's Thesis advisor was Prof. R. Dillmann who was at that time at the IPR. |
Awards
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Named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum in 2006 |
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Named Top 100 Young Innovator
by MIT Techology Review in 2004 (the TR100 has since been renamed to the TR35) |
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Best Demo Award at SIGCOMM 2008 for "A Demonstration of Virtual Machine Mobility in an OpenFlow network". |
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Grand Prize
Stanford Entrepreneurship Competition (e-Challenge) 2002 and "Best Innovation" at the Global e-Challenge, Singapore, 2002 |
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Alumni of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes |
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Erster Preis (firzt prize)
Bundeswettbewerb Mathematik 1987 |
Other
Publications and Talks
Over 20 peer-reviewed research publications, including papers at SIGCOMM, INFOCOM an USENIX.
Five issues US patents, and over 20 national and international applications pending.
Over 30 public talks on technology and entrepreneurship.
Languages
German (native), English (near native), French (conversational), Japanese (conversational) and Spanish (very basic).
Sports
Sailing US Sailing BC certified. Member of Club Nautique.
Casual running, occasionally a half or full marathon.
Trekking (Kilimanjaro, Roraima, Whittney), Alpinism ans Skiing.