Rachid Guerraoui has been affiliated with the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique of Saclay, Hewlett Packard Laboratories and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has worked on 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, indulgent algorithms and robust machine learning. He co-authored a book on Transactional Systems (Hermes), a book on reliable distributed programming (Springer), a book on the many faces of AI (Dunod) and a book on Robust machine learning (Springer). He is ACM fellow and got elected member of College the France and Academia Europea. He received the ACM Barroso Award, the Nygaard-Dahl Award, the Jean-Claude Laprie Award, a senior ERC Grant and the Award of best teacher at EPFL IC:  His publications are available at http://lpdwww.epfl.ch/rachid/papers/generalPublis.html