About me

Research Interests

My current focus in on the principles of distributed computing: I want to understand the fundamental properties of networks that limit how efficiently we can solve various distributed tasks (e.g., solving optimization problems such as the minimum spanning tree on a network). My other interests include approximation algorithms and leveraging continuous optimization for discrete problems.

Short Biography

I am a postdoc at ETH Zurich, in the research group of Prof. Mohsen Ghaffari. Previously, I was a Ph.D. student in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University under the advisorship of Prof. Bernhard Haeupler with the thesis titled Towards Universal Optimality in Distributed Optimization. Even earlier, I obtained my B.Sc. and M.Sc. from University of Zagreb under the advisorship of Prof. Mile Šikić.

I am extremely honored to have received the 2021 ACM-EATCS Principles of Distributed Computing Doctoral Dissertation Award. Earlier, I was also awarded the 2018 DFINITY Scholarship.

Links:     my CV     my fledgling blog

Publications

  • Bernhard Haeupler, D. Ellis Hershkowitz, Goran Zuzic. Deterministic Tree Embeddings with Copies for Algorithms Against Adaptive Adversaries. In submission. (PDF)
  • Bernhard Haeupler, David Wajc, Goran Zuzic. Universally-Optimal Distributed Algorithms for Known Topologies. ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2021). (PDF) (Slides) (Poster) (Video)
  • Mohsen Ghaffari, Bernhard Haeupler, Goran Zuzic. Hop-Constrained Oblivious Routing. ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2021). (PDF)
  • Bernhard Haeupler, D. Ellis Hershkowitz, Goran Zuzic. Tree Embeddings for Hop-Constrained Network Design. ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing. (STOC 2021) (PDF)
  • Goran Zuzic, Di Wang, Aranyak Mehta, D. Sivakumar. Learning Robust Algorithms for Online Allocation Problems Using Adversarial Training. In submission. (PDF)
  • Bernhard Haepler, David Wajc, Goran Zuzic. Network Coding Gaps for Completion Times of Multiple Unicasts. IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science. (FOCS 2020) (PDF) (Video)
  • Domagoj Bradac, Anupam Gupta, Sahil Singla, Goran Zuzic. Robust Algorithms for the Secretary Problem. Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science. (ITCS 2020) (PDF) (Video)
  • Domagoj Bradac, Sahil Singla, Goran Zuzic. Optimal Adaptivity Gaps for Constrained Stochastic Probing. International Conference on Randomization and Computation. (RANDOM 2019) (PDF) (Slides)
  • Keren Censor-Hillel, Bernhard Haeupler, D. Ellis Hershkowitz, Goran Zuzic. Erasure Correction for Noisy Radio Networks. International Symposium on Distributed Computing. (DISC 2019) (PDF) (Video)
  • Bernhard Haeupler, Jason Li, Goran Zuzic. Minor Excluded Network Families Admit Fast Distributed Algorithms. ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing. (PODC 2018) (PDF)
  • Keren Censor-Hillel, Bernhard Haeupler, D. Ellis Hershkowitz, Goran Zuzic. Broadcasting in Noisy Radio Networks. ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing. (PODC 2017) (PDF) (Video)
  • Haeupler, Bernhard, Taisuke Izumi, and Goran Zuzic. Near-Optimal Low-Congestion Shortcuts on Bounded Parameter Graphs. International Symposium on Distributed Computing. (DISC 2016)
  • Haeupler, Bernhard, Taisuke Izumi, and Goran Zuzic. Low-congestion shortcuts without embedding.
    Conference version: ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing. ACM, 2016 (PODC).
    Journal version: Distributed Computing (DIST 2020) (PDF) (Video) (Slides)

Contact

Office: CAB G31.2, Universitatstrasse 6, 8092 Zurich.
Email: (my first name).zuzic@inf.ethz.ch