Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Tobias Distler
Head of the Distributed Systems Group
Room: WE5/03.016
Email: tobias.distler(at)uni-bamberg.de
Honors
| Best Paper Award Nomination | Nomination for the Best Paper Award at the 20th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES '25) for the paper "TEE-Assisted Recovery and Upgrades for Long-Running BFT Services" |
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| SIGACT Research Highlights Nomination | Nomination for the SIGACT Research Highlights 2024 for the PODC '24 paper "Probabilistic Byzantine Fault Tolerance" |
| Teaching Award | Faculty of Engineering Teaching Award of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg 2023 |
| Habilitation Award | |
| Teaching Award | Teaching Award for Junior Researchers of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg 2021 |
| Best Student Paper Award | Best Student Paper Award at the 21st Middleware Conference (Middleware '20) for the paper "Resilient Cloud-based Replication with Low Latency" |
| Best Paper Award | Best Paper Award at the 18th International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS '18) for the paper "Strome: Energy-Aware Data-Stream Processing" |
| Outstanding Paper Award | Outstanding Paper Award at the 30th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS '18) for the paper "Whole-System Worst-Case Energy-Consumption Analysis for Energy-Constrained Real-Time Systems" |
| Ph.D. Award | IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Award for the 2012-2013 academic year |
| Dissertation Award Nomination | Nominee of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg for the 2014 GI Dissertation Award |
Professional Activities
| DSN 2026 | Programmkomitee der 56th International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN '26) |
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| Middleware 2026 | Programmkomitee der 27th Middleware Conference (Middleware '26) |
| EuroSys 2025 | Programmkomitee der 20th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys '25) |
| DSN 2025 | Programmkomitee der 55th International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN '25) |
| Middleware 2025 | Programmkomitee der 26th Middleware Conference (Middleware '25) |
| ICDCS 2025 | Programmkomitee der 45th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS '25) |
| SYSTOR 2025 | Programmkomitee der 18th International System and Storage Conference (SYSTOR '25) |
| CLOUD 2025 | Programmkomitee der 18th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD '25) |
| ROBUST 2025 | Programmkomitee des 2nd Workshop on Resilient Operations – Byzantine Fault Tolerance and State-Machine Replication (ROBUST '25) |
| DepWeb3 2025 | Programmkomitee des Dependable and Secure Web3 Blockchain and Smart Contracts Workshop (DepWeb3 '25), veranstaltet auf der 20th European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC '25) |
| Middleware 2024 | Program Committee of the 25th Middleware Conference (Middleware '24) |
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| ARES 2024 | Program Committee of the 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES '24) |
| ROBUST 2024 | Local Organizer of the 1st Workshop on Resilient Operations – Byzantine Fault Tolerance and State-Machine Replication (ROBUST '24) |
| OPODIS 2023 | Program Committee of the 27th Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS '23) |
| Middleware 2023 | Program Committee of the 24th Middleware Conference (Middleware '23) |
| ARES 2023 | Program Committee of the 18th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES '23) |
| DSN 2021 | Program Committee of the 51st International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN '21) |
| Middleware 2021 | Program Committee of the 22nd Middleware Conference (Middleware '21) |
| ARES 2021 | External Reviewer for the 16th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES '21) |
| Middleware 2020 |
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| ARM 2019 | Program Committee of the 18th Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (ARM '19), co-located with the 20th Middleware Conference (Middleware '19) |
| RTAS 2019 | Program Committee of the 25th Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS '19) |
| CrossCloud 2019 | Program Committee of the 6th Workshop on CrossCloud Infrastructures & Platforms (CrossCloud '19), co-located with the 19th International Symposium in Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGrid '19) |
| BCRB 2018 | Co-Chair of the 1st Workshop on Byzantine Consensus and Resilient Blockchains (BCRB '18), co-located with the 48th International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN '18) |
| BlockSEA 2018 | Program Committee of the 1st Workshop on Blockchain and Sharing Economy Applications (BlockSEA '18), co-located with the 18th International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM '18) |
| CrossCloud 2018 | Program Committee of the 5th Workshop on CrossCloud Infrastructures & Platforms (CrossCloud '18), co-located with the 13th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys '18) |
| ProWeb 2018 | Program Committee of the 2nd Workshop on Programming Technology for the Future Web (ProWeb '18), co-located with the 2nd International Conference on the Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming (<Programming> '18) |
| ARM 2017 | Program Committee of the 16th Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (ARM '17), co-located with the 18th Middleware Conference (Middleware '17) |
| CrossCloud 2017 | Program Committee of the 4th Workshop on CrossCloud Infrastructures & Platforms (CrossCloud '17), co-located with the 12th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys '17) |
| ProWeb 2017 | Program Committee of the 1st Workshop on Programming Technology for the Future Web (ProWeb '17), co-located with the 1st International Conference on the Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming (<Programming> '17) |
| ARM 2016 | Program Committee of the 15th Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (ARM '16), co-located with the 17th Middleware Conference (Middleware '16) |
| PaPoC 2016 | Program Committee of the 2nd Workshop on Principles and Practice of Consistency for Distributed Data (PaPoC '16), co-located with the 11th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys '16) |
| CrossCloud 2016 | Program Committee of the 3rd Workshop on CrossCloud Infrastructures & Platforms (CrossCloud '16), co-located with the 11th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys '16) |
| CrossCloud Brokers 2014 | Program Committee of the 2nd Workshop on CrossCloud Systems (CrossCloud Brokers '14), co-located with the 13th Middleware Conference (Middleware '14) |
| USENIX ATC 2012 | External Reviewer for the 2012 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC '12) |
| EuroSys 2012 | Shadow Program Committee of the 7th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys '12) |
| ACM CSUR | Reviewer for ACM Computing Surveys (ACM CSUR) |
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| ACM DLT | Reviewer for ACM Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice (ACM DLT) |
| IEEE TC | Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Computers (IEEE TC) |
| IEEE TCC | Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (IEEE TCC) |
| IEEE T-IFS | Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (IEEE T-IFS) |
| IEEE TDSC | Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE TDSC) |
| IEEE TNSE | Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (IEEE TNSE) |
| IEEE TPDS | Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (IEEE TPDS) |
| IEEE IoTJ | Reviewer for IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IEEE IoTJ) |
| KUIN | Reviewer for KI – Künstliche Intelligenz (KUIN) |