Roger Wattenhofer

Roger Wattenhofer
Born (1969-11-17) November 17, 1969 (age 56)
Schwyz, Switzerland
EducationETH Zurich
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
WorkplacesETH Zurich, Brown University, Microsoft Research
ThesisDistributed Counting – How to Bypass Bottlenecks (1998)
Peter Widmayer
Websitedisco.ethz.ch/members/wroger

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

Together with Christian Decker in 2014, 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. In 2017, he appeared in a movie about the Blockchain..

Awards and honors

In 2012, Wattenhofer won the Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing, awarded annually at the SIROCCO conference.. In 2026, he was jointly awarded the Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing for their paper on Distributed Verification and Hardness of Distributed Approximation.

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ Roger Wattenhofer's personal page on ETH Zurich's website
  2. ↑ "Biographies of Invited Speakers". 24th International Symposium on Graph Drawing & Network Visualization.
  3. ↑ "Keynote by Prof. Roger Wattenhofer". ACM SenSys 2017.
  4. ↑ Roger Wattenhofer's bibliography on DBLP
  5. ↑ "Roger Wattenhofer". Google Scholar.
  6. ↑ Wattenhofer, Roger (2016). The science of the blockchain. Inverted Forest Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5227-5183-0.
  7. ↑ Decker, Christian; Wattenhofer, Roger (1 January 2014). "Bitcoin Transaction Malleability and MtGox". Computer Security - ESORICS 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 8713. pp. 313–326. arXiv:1403.6676. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-11212-1_18. ISBN 978-3-319-11211-4. S2CID 14555943.
  8. ↑ "The Mt. Gox Bitcoin Debacle: An Update". 2015-11-03.
  9. ↑ "The Troubling Holes in MtGox's Account of How It Lost $600 Million in Bitcoins".
  10. ↑ "Roger Wattenhofer". IMDb.
  11. ↑ Idit Keidar, ACM-SIGACT News Distributed Computing Column, June 2013
  12. ↑ Dijkstra Prize Award Committee, 2026 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing