Valentin Rothberg

Valentin Rothberg is a Researcher at the Department of Computer Science 4 (Distributed Systems and Operating Systems) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. His work focuses on operating systems, software configuration management, and compiler optimization. He is a core contributor to projects like CADOS (Configurability Aware Development of Operating Systems) and VAMOS (Variability Management in Operating Systems).

Research interests include Linux kernel customization, dynamic variability in software systems, and compiler-based redundancy detection. He has authored notable publications on AST hashing for build optimization and impact analysis of Linux feature changes. Rothberg has advised multiple theses on topics like kernel configuration analysis and static analysis tools.

His open-source contributions include the vgrep tool for enhanced text search and collaboration on container technologies like Podman. He maintains active involvement in FAU's distributed systems research and has presented at conferences such as USENIX and VaMoS.