Applied Networking Research Prize
IRTF and Internet Society
For the SIGCOMM '22 paper on the design and evaluation of IPFS. One of six winners that year, with an invited talk at the IRTF open meeting at IETF 118.
Dennis Trautwein
Software engineer and researcher. I measure peer‑to‑peer networks and feed what I find back into protocol design. Co-founder of ProbeLab.
PhD Fellowship
Protocol Labs
Two years of funding for my doctoral research on content discovery and retrieval in IPFS.
BEXUS 19 balloon flight
DLR and the Swedish National Space Agency
Our Kiel student team's ADAM experiment flew to the stratosphere on BEXUS 19 and measured the angular distribution of charged particles. My bachelor thesis simulated its sensor system.
Deutschlandstipendium
German federal government and private sponsors
Germany's national merit scholarship, given for my results in the Abitur, the German highschool-leaving exams. One of 70 recipients in Schleswig-Holstein that year.
Large-Scale Measurement of NAT Traversal for the Decentralized Web: A Case Study of DCUtR in IPFS
Dennis Trautwein, Cornelius Ihle, Moritz Schubotz, Corinna Breitinger, Bela Gipp
IPFS in the Fast Lane: Accelerating Record Storage with Optimistic Provide
Dennis Trautwein, Yiluo Wei, Yiannis Psaras, Moritz Schubotz, Ignacio Castro, Bela Gipp, Gareth Tyson
The Eternal Tussle: Exploring the Role of Centralization in IPFS
Yiluo Wei, Dennis Trautwein, Yiannis Psaras, Ignacio Castro, Will Scott, Aravindh Raman, Gareth Tyson
Design and Evaluation of IPFS: A Storage Layer for the Decentralized Web
Dennis Trautwein, Aravindh Raman, Gareth Tyson, Ignacio Castro, Will Scott, Moritz Schubotz, Bela Gipp, Yiannis Psaras
Applied Networking Research Prize 2023
Co-founder, ProbeLab
Founded with Yiannis Psaras and Mikel Cortes-Goicoechea. We measure various peer-to-peer networks, publish what we find, and feed it back into protocol design.
Research engineer, Protocol Labs / IPShipyard
Measurement of the IPFS and libp2p networks: crawlers, telemetry, and the analysis that turns raw data into something a protocol team can act on. The ProbeLab team started here.
Doctoral researcher, University of Göttingen
PhD in computer science in Bela Gipp's group. The thesis measures and optimises peer-to-peer networks, with IPFS as the case study.
Industrial PhD candidate, OriginStamp AG
Frontend work in Angular, alongside the infrastructure work that kept the company running on AWS and Terraform.
Software engineer, freiheit.com
Built the real time event backend behind Daimler's Mercedes me app, in a Go and Kubernetes setup on Azure.
Web and mobile developer at weluse GmbH, Research assistant at CAU Kiel, Software developer at TouchTech Labs, iOS developer intern at TouchTech.
Education
PhD, Computer Science
University of Göttingen, 2026
MSc, Physics
Kiel University, 2018
BSc, Physics
Kiel University, 2014
Service
Reviewer, JCDL
Kiel Germany
Wellington New Zealand
Melbourne Australia
Kiel Germany
Hamburg Germany
Kreuzlingen Switzerland
Kiel Germany
I tend to reach for a measurement before an opinion.
If you have a hard problem in networking or distributed systems, or data you think I would enjoy, write to me.
Email me
contact@dtrautwein.eu