Tobias Distler

Tobias Distler is an Associate Professor (Privatdozent) at the Department of Computer Science 4 (Distributed Systems and Operating Systems) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). He leads research in resource-efficient fault tolerance, energy-aware systems, and distributed coordination. His work focuses on Byzantine fault tolerance, cloud computing, real-time systems, and embedded systems resilience.

Research Projects:

• REFIT (Resource-efficient Fault and Intrusion Tolerance)
• EDC (Efficient Distributed Coordination)
• E³ (Energy-aware Execution Environments)
• TClouds (Trustworthy Clouds)

Research Interests: His expertise spans distributed systems, fault-tolerant replication, energy-efficient computing, real-time systems analysis, and secure cloud infrastructure. He emphasizes practical system design with rigorous theoretical foundations.

Publications: Over 100 peer-reviewed papers in top venues like Middleware, EuroSys, DSN, and ECRTS. Notable contributions include Egalitarian BFT, Strome (energy-aware stream processing), and TinyBFT for embedded systems.

Awards:

• SIGACT Research Highlights Nomination (2024)
• FAU Teaching Award for Junior Researchers (2021)
• IBM Ph.D. Fellowship (2012-2013)

Professional Activities: Served on program committees for Middleware, EuroSys, DSN, and IEEE Transactions. Chair of Artifact Evaluation for Middleware '20. Founded the BCRB workshop on Byzantine consensus and blockchains.

Education: Habilitation (2021) and Ph.D. (2014) from FAU, focusing on resource-aware system software for replicated services. Advisor to numerous graduate students in distributed systems research.