Rachid Guerraoui is professor of Computer Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne where he leads the Distributed Programming Laboratory. Rachid is fellow of the ACM and has recently been awarded an advanced ERC grant and a Google focused award. He has also been affiliated in the past with the Research Center of Ecole des Mines de Paris, the Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique in Saclay, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.