Rachid Guerraoui awarded for outstanding career contributions
Rachid Guerraoui in Vienna © 2024 EPFL
IC Professor has won the Dahl-Nygaard prize, recognized as one of the most prestigious in the area of software engineering.
Professor Rachid Guerraoui, head of EPFL’s Distributed Computing Laboratory, has been a computer scientist for more than 30 years, affiliated with a number of prestigious organizations throughout his career. These include the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique of Saclay, Hewlett Packard Laboratories and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Guerraoui has worked in a variety of aspects of distributed computing, including distributed algorithms and distributed programming languages and is most well known for his work on e-Transactions, epidemic information dissemination and indulgent consensus algorithms.
This week, he received the Dahl-Nygaard prize, awarded annually to a senior researcher with outstanding career contributions in programming languages and software engineering, announced at the European Conference on Object Oriented Programming (ECOOP) in Vienna.
“It’s an honor to be recognized by my peers with such a respected award and I’m humbled to be following in the footsteps of colleagues such as Bjarne Stroustrup, the inventor of C++, Doug Lea the designer of concurrency in Java and Luca Cardelli who invented Modula-3 and the first ML compiler,” Guerraoui said.
Professor Guerraoui's current projects include secure distributed storage, robust machine learning and the computability of distributed algorithms. His recent research has been sponsored by the European Commission, the Swiss National Science Foundation, LODH, MSR and HP.
The Dahl-Nygaard prize is named after Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard, two Norwegian pioneers in the area of programming and simulation.