André SchiperAndré Schiper graduated in Physics from the ETHZ in Zurich in 1973 and received the PhD degree in Computer Science from EPFL in 1980. He has been a professor of computer science at EPFL since 1985, leading the Distributed Systems Laboratory. During the academic year 1992-1993 he was on sabbatical leave at the University of Cornell, Ithaca, New York (working with Ken Birman and Aleta Ricciardi), and in 2004-2005 at the Ecole Polytechnique in Palaiseau, France (working with Bernadette Charron-Bost). His research interests are in the area of dependable distributed systems, middleware support for dependable systems, replication techniques (including for database systems), group communication, distributed transactions, and MANETs (mobile ad-hoc networks).
Prof. Schiper is member of the editorial boards of
Distributed Computing (DC), Springer Verlag - ACM,
Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), IEEE,
International Journal of Security and Networks (Inderscience).
Arsany Hany Abdelmessih GuirguisI am a fifth-year Ph.D. student at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. I work in the Distributed Computing Lab (DCL) under the supervision of Prof. Rachid Guerraoui. My research interests include distributed machine learning, communication efficiency, and fault tolerance. In particular, I am interested in building scalable and trustworthy distributed machine learning systems.
Prior to joining EPFL, I received my Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree from Alexandria University in Egypt in July 2014 and January 2017 respectively. I graduated with “Distinction with Honor”, and I ranked first in my class. Back then, I worked as a Research Assistant at the Computer and Systems Engineering Department, Alexandria University, Egypt under the supervision of Prof. Moustafa Youssef and Prof. Mustafa ElNainay.