Prof. Laurent Vanbever is an associate professor at ETH Zurich. His research interests lie at the crossroads of theory and practice, with a focus on network programmability. Overall, he aims at making networks both more performant and easier to manage.

He completed his PhD in computer science in 2012 at the University of Louvain under the guidance of Olivier Bonaventure. His thesis is entitled “Methods and Techniques for Disruption-Free Network Reconfiguration”. After his PhD, he spent two years at Princeton University working with Jennifer Rexford as a postdoctoral researcher.

Prior to my PhD, he earned his master’s degree in computer science from the University of Louvain in 2008. He also earned a master’s degree in management from the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management in 2010.

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