Education

• Philosophical Doctor (Ph.D.), Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder, 2013 - 2019
• Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder, 2013 - 2015
• Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, University of Vienna, 2009 - 2013
• Exchange Student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Computer Science, 2011
• Exchange Student, Mount Lebanon High School, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2006
• Advanced EMT, School of the German Red Cross, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2008 - 2009
• Abitur, Stifisches Gymnasium, Düren, Germany, 1999 - 2008

Research Experience

• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University, Department of Computer Science, Princeton, NJ, USA, since 2021
• Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Vienna, Faculty of Computer Science, Austria, 2020-2021
• Research Assistant, University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Computer Science, Boulder, CO, USA, 2013 - 2019
• Undergraduate Research Assistant, University of Vienna, Faculty of Computer Science, Austria, 2010 - 2013 (part time)

Teaching Experience

• Lecturer, Network Security, University of Vienna, Austria, 2021
• Lecturer, Operating Systems, University of Vienna, Austria, 2021
• Lecturer, Network Technologies, University of Vienna, Austria, 2020
• Guest Lecturer, Advanced Networking, Professor Eric Keller, University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA, 2015 - 2018
• Teaching Assistant, CSCI2400 Computer Systems, Professor Richard Han, University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA, Aug. 2013 - Dec. 2013
• Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Undergraduate Networking (VO Network Technologies), Professor Kurt Tutschku, University of Vienna, Austria, Mar. 2012 - Jun. 2012

Work Experience

• Backend Software Engineer, Tourradar.com GmbH, Vienna, Austria, 2019 - 2020
• iOS Software Engineer, Tupalo.com Internet-Services GmbH, Vienna, Austria, 2009 - 2011
• Founder, editum internet solutions GbR, Hürtgenwald, Germany, since 2013

Invited Talks and Presentations

• Oliver Michel. “Packet-Level Network Telemetry and Analytics”. Invited Talk, University of Vienna, Austria, April 2019.
• Oliver Michel. “Cloud-Scale Packet-Level Telemetry and Analytics”. Invited Talk, North American Network Operators Group General Meeting 73, Denver, CO, USA, June 2018. slides video
• Oliver Michel. “Hardware-accelerated Lossless Flow Monitoring”. Guest Lecture, ECEN5008 University of Colorado Boulder, CO, USA, October 2017.
• Oliver Michel, Eric Keller, Fernando Ramos. “Network Defragmentation in Virtualized Data Centers”. Invited Talk, University of Lisbon, Portugal, September 2017.
• Oliver Michel. “SDN in Wide-Area Networks”. Guest Lecture ECEN5013 University of Colorado Boulder, CO, USA, September 2016.
• Oliver Michel. “P4: Protocol-Independent Packet Processors”. Guest Lecture ECEN5013 University of Colorado Boulder, CO, USA, September 2015. slides
• Oliver Michel, Matthew Monaco, Eric Keller. “Applying Operating System Principles to SDN Controller Design”. Invited Talk, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA, Apr. 2014 slides
• Oliver Michel. “More is Less - Reducing Latency via Redundancy”. Invited Talk, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA, Apr. 2013 slides
• Oliver Michel. “Adaptive Source Routing and Speculative Execution for Multi-homed Wireless Clients in Preclinical Medical Care”. Bachelor Thesis and public presentation at the University of Vienna, Austria, Nov. 2012 full thesis slides
• Ashish Vulimiri, Oliver Michel, P. Brighten Godfrey, and Scott Shenker. “More is Less - Reducing Latency via Redundancy”. Talk at the 15th GENI Engineering Conference (GEC15), Houston, TX, USA, Oct. 2012

Internships

• WAN Automation Software Engineer, Juniper Networks OpenLab, Bridgewater, NJ, USA (Jun. - Aug. 2016), supervised by Didier Bousser

• Undergraduate Research Intern, Information Trust Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA (Jun. - Aug. 2012), supervised by Brighten Godfrey

• others: Visiting Scholar, Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA (2013), Visiting Scholar, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA (2012), Medical Center of the Albert-Ludwig University Freiburg, Department for heart and vascular surgery, transplant center, Freiburg, Germany (2009), St. Marien-Hospital Düren, Department of Anesthesiology and surgical intensive-care medicine, Düren, Germany (2009), Fire Department, emergency medical services, City of Düren, Germany (2008), Medical Center of the RWTH Aachen University, Department of plastic-, hand- and burn-surgery, burn/trauma center, Aachen, Germany (2008), Spymac Network Germany GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany (2005), Clanotopia IT-Service Ltd., Essen, Germany (2004)

Graduate Coursework

Design and Analysis of Algorithms (CSCI5454), Natural Language Processing (CSC5832), Advanced Networking (CSCI7000/05), Advanced Database Systems (CSCI5817), Computer Graphics (CSCI5229), Network Analysis (CSCI5352), Advanced Computer and Networked System Security (CSCI7000/12), Research Topics in Datacenter Scale Computing (CSCI7000/14), Advanced Computer Networks (CS538 - UIUC)