Lukas Röllin
PhD Candidate
Networked Systems Group @ ETH Zürich
About Me
Hi, I am Lukas, a third-year PhD student at ETH in the Networked Systems Group led by Laurent Vanbever. My research lives at the intersection of high-performance computer networks, hardware design, and environmental sustainability. My work targets a critical bottleneck for next-generation infrastructure: enabling networks to scale while keeping energy consumption in check. By co-designing hardware and network protocols, I aim to build highly efficient, traffic-adaptive communication systems.
Research Topics:
- Optical Networking: Improving optical communications and hardware-level performance, finding ways to integrate optical circuit switching into a packet-switched world.
- Network Power Proportionality: Designing hardware and routing strategies that dynamically adjust power draw based on actual network traffic.