raynal

- Distributed algorithms, distributed computing systems, distributed computability and dependability.

- Fundamental principles that underlie the design and the construction of distributed computing systems.

- I enjoy literature, rugby, hiking and cats. I am a wine amateur (Vigneron d’honneur de la confrérie de Saint-Emilion) and enjoys Cahors’s wine (A Malbec that is the darkest wine in the world!).

- My Erdös number is 2 ( Erdös -> Zaks -> Raynal), and I am cited in the French Whoswho since 2009.

After obtaining an engineer diploma from INSA (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rennes), I obtained a PhD grant from the CNRS, and defended a PhD (the topic of which was related to synchronization) in 1975 (supervisor: J.-P. Verjus). I was then hired as a full-time researcher by IRIA (now INRIA) from 1976 until 1981, where I worked on abstract data types, protection, synchronization, and programming languages. In 1981 I obtained the “Doctorat d’Etat” in Computer Science, the title of which was “Contribution à l’étude de la coopération dans les langages et les systèmes informatiques”. Then, I moved to Brest (France) in an engineer school (namely Sup Telecom Bretagne, a rench engineer school on telecommunications, sister-school of Telecom ParisTech), where, as a professor, I created and managed the Computer Science department.

In 1984, I moved back to the University of Rennes where, since then, I have been a professor in computer science. At IRISA (CNRS-INRIA-University joint computing research laboratory located in Rennes), I founded a research group on Distributed Algorithms in 1984.

I have been principal investigator of a number of research grants (founded by the European community, private companies -such as Alcatel, GEC-Alsthom and France-Telecom-, or the french government). I have also obtained grants from bi-national research programmes between France and other countries such as Brazil, Hong-Kong, Israel, Italy, Japan,Mexico, Portugal, and USA (Santa Barbara, Georgia Tech, Kansas State U.). I have been invited by more than 25 universities all over the world (Europe, North and South America, Africa, and Asia) to give lectures on distributed algorithms and distributed computing.

Very recently, I was principal investigator in the European Network of Excellence ReSIST (2006- March 2009). This NoE, devoted to “Resilience for survivability in IST” (http://www.resist-noe.org/), involved 18 European research (private and public) labs, all with a leader position in fault-tolerance. I am currently principal investigator in a European Marie Curie project called TRANSFORM ((Theoretical Foundations of Transactional Memories, 2010-2013) devoted to software transactional memory. I am also currently engaged in the French ANR project SHAMAN (Self-organizing and Healing Architectures for Malicious and Adversarial Networks, 2008-2011).

Up to now, I have published 119 papers in journals. These journals cover both theory and practice. Among them, there are the following international journals: the Journal of the ACM, Algorithmica, SIAM Journal of Computing, Acta Informatica, Distributed Computing, The Communications of the ACM, Information and Computation, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, JPDC, IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on TPDS, IEEE Computer, IEEE Software, Journal of Supercomputing, IPL, PPL, Theoretical Computer Science, Theory of Computing Systems, Real-Time Systems Journal, The Computer Journal, etc.

I have published more than 240 papers in conferences (ACM STOC, ACM PODC, ACM SPAA, IEEE ICDCS, IEEE DSN, DISC, COCOON, IEEE IPDPS, Europar, FST&TCS, IEEE SRDS, etc.), and written eight books devoted to parallelism, distributed algorithms and systems (two have been published by the MIT Press, while two others have been published by Wiley & Sons, the last one is in print). I have been an invited speaker in more than 20 international conferences and workshops (including the prestigious DISC, EUROPAR, IEEE NCA and OPODIS conferences). Among my publications, 310 are listed when querying DBLP. My current h-index is 42 (as computed by the Harzing software).

I have received the IEEE ICDCS best paper Award three times in a row: 1999, 2000 and 2001, and the SSS best paper Award in 2009.

I currently belong to the editorial board of five international journals (including JPDC, IEEE TC and IEEE TPDS). I have served in program committees for more than 100 international conferences (including ACM PODC, DISC, ICDCS, IPDPS, DSN, LADC, SRDS, SIROCCO, etc.) and chaired the program committee of more than 15 international conferences (including DISC -twice-, ICDCS, SIROCCO, ICDCN, and ISORC). Recently, I have co-chaired SIROCCO 2005 (devoted to communication complexity), IWDC 2005, and IEEE ICDCS 2006. Moreover, I served as the chair of the steering committee leading the DISC symposium series in 2002-2004, and I am a member of the steering committees of the following conferences: ACM PODC (ACM Symposium on the Principles of Distributed Computing until 2009), IEEE ICDCS (Int’l Conference on Distributed Computing and Systems), and ICDCN (Int’l Conference on Distributed Computing and Networks). Since 2006, I am the European representative in the IEEE technical committee on Distributed Computing. Recently, I was PC of OPODIS 2009, and conference co-chair of ICDCN 2010. More information can be found in Part 3 of my application.

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