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Rachid Guerraoui is a full professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) specializing in distributed computing, particularly distributed algorithms and programming languages. His expertise includes secure distributed storage and transactional shared memory. He has collaborated with notable institutions including École des Mines Paris, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique Saclay, and Hewlett Packard Laboratories, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Guerraoui is well-known for his work on (e-)Transactions and epidemic information dissemination. He co-authored the book 'Transactional Systems' and contributed to 'Reliable Distributed Programming'. He has held significant roles in various academic conferences, including serving as program chair for ECOOP 1999 and ACM Middleware 2001. His research has been funded by prominent organizations such as the European Commission and the Swiss National Science Foundation, focusing on projects related to secure distributed storage and the computability of distributed algorithms.
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