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.