Rachid Guerraoui has been affiliated with Ecole des Mines of Paris, the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique of Saclay, Hewlett Packard Laboratories and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has worked in a variety of aspects of distributed computing, including distributed algorithms and distributed programming languages. He is most well known for his work on (e-)Transactions, epidemic information dissemination and indulgent algorithms.He co-authored a book on Transactional Systems (Hermes) and a book on reliable distributed programming (Springer). He was appointed program chair of ECOOP 1999, ACM Middleware 2001, IEEE SRDS 2002, DISC 2004 and ACM PODC 2010.His publications are available at http://lpdwww.epfl.ch/rachid/papers/generalPublis.html
Jovan Komatovic is a first year PhD student in Distributed Computing Laboratory (DCL) at School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL.He obtained Bachelor's and Master's degree in computer science at School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade.His research interests centre around theory and practice of highly secure distributed protocols.The current project Jovan is working on investigates the problem of accountable consensus algorithms.
André 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 ofDistributed Computing (DC), Springer Verlag - ACM,Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), IEEE,International Journal of Security and Networks (Inderscience).