Giorgio MargaritondoCitizen of the USA and Switzerland, Giorgio Margaritondo was born in Rome, Italy, in 1946. He received the Laurea summa cum laude from the University of Rome in 1969. From 1969 he was an employee of the Italian National Research Council in Rome and Frascati and, in 1975-77, he was at Bell Laboratories in the USA. From 1978 to 1990, he was professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the USA; in 1984 he was nominated associate director for research of the Synchrotron Radiation Center of the same university. In 1990 he was nominated "professeur ordinaire" (full professor) at the EPFL; he directed the Institute of Applied Physics and the Physics Department. He was also a honorary faculty member at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. In 2001 he became Dean of the EPFL Faculty of Basic Sciences. In 2004 he was nominated Provost and he served until 2010, when he became Dean of Continuing Education, until his retirement from the EPFL in 2016 In addition to teaching general physics, his activity concerns the physics of semiconductors and superconductors (electronic states, surfaces and interfaces) and of biological systems; his main experimental techniques are electron spectroscopy and spectromicroscopy, x-ray imaging and scanning near-field microscopy, including experiments with synchrotron light and with free electron lasers. Author of more than 700 scientific publications and 9 books, he was also coordinator in 1995-98 of the scientific division of the Elettra synchrotron in Trieste. In 1997-2003 he was coordinator of the European Commission Round Table on synchrotron radiation, and then became president of the Council of the European Commission Integrated Initiative on Synchrotron and Free Electron Laser Science (IA-SFS and then ELISA), the largest network in the world in this domain. In 2011-15, he was Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Physics D (Applied Physics). He is currently vice-president of the council of the Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), and president of the Scientific and Technological Committee of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT). He is Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Vacuum Society and Fellow and Chartered Physicist of the Institute of Physics.
Rachid GuerraouiRachid Guerraoui has been affiliated with Ecole des Mines of Paris, the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique of Saclay, Hewlett Packard Laboratories and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has worked in 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 and indulgent algorithms.
He co-authored a book on Transactional Systems (Hermes) and a book on reliable distributed programming (Springer). He was appointed program chair of ECOOP 1999, ACM Middleware 2001, IEEE SRDS 2002, DISC 2004 and ACM PODC 2010.
His publications are available at http://lpdwww.epfl.ch/rachid/papers/generalPublis.html André SchiperAndré Schiper graduated in Physics from the ETHZ in Zurich in 1973 and received the PhD degree in Computer Science from EPFL in 1980. He has been a professor of computer science at EPFL since 1985, leading the Distributed Systems Laboratory. During the academic year 1992-1993 he was on sabbatical leave at the University of Cornell, Ithaca, New York (working with Ken Birman and Aleta Ricciardi), and in 2004-2005 at the Ecole Polytechnique in Palaiseau, France (working with Bernadette Charron-Bost). His research interests are in the area of dependable distributed systems, middleware support for dependable systems, replication techniques (including for database systems), group communication, distributed transactions, and MANETs (mobile ad-hoc networks).
Prof. Schiper is member of the editorial boards of
Distributed Computing (DC), Springer Verlag - ACM,
Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), IEEE,
International Journal of Security and Networks (Inderscience).
Anne-Marie KermarrecAnne-Marie Kermarrec is Professor at EPFL since January 2020. Before that she was the CEO of the Mediego startup that she founded in April 2015. Mediego provides content personalization services for online publishers. She was a Research Director at Inria, France from 2004 to 2015. She got a Ph.D. thesis from University of Rennes (France), and has been with Vrije Universiteit, NL and Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK. Anne-Marie received an ERC grant in 2008 and an ERC Proof of Concept in 2013. She received the Montpetit Award in 2011 and the Innovation Award in 2017 from the French Academy of Science. She has been elected to the European Academy in 2013 and named ACM Fellow in 2016. Her research interests are in large-scale distributed systems, epidemic algorithms, peer to peer networks and system support for machine learning.Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aIAy-qcAAAAJDBLP: https://dblp.org/pers/k/Kermarrec:Anne=Marie.html Jürgen BruggerI am a Professor of Microengineering and co-affiliated to Materials Science. Before joining EPFL I was at the MESA Research Institute of Nanotechnology at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, and at the Hitachi Central Research Laboratory, in Tokyo, Japan. I received a Master in Physical-Electronics and a PhD degree from Neuchâtel University, Switzerland. Research in my laboratory focuses on various aspects of MEMS and Nanotechnology. My group contributes to the field at the fundamental level as well as in technological development, as demonstrated by the start-ups that spun off from the lab. In our research, key competences are in micro/nanofabrication, additive micro-manufacturing, new materials for MEMS, increasingly for wearable and biomedical applications. Together with my students and colleagues we published over 200 peer-refereed papers and I had the pleasure to supervise over 25 PhD students. Former students and postdocs have been successful in receiving awards and starting their own scientific careers. I am honoured for the appointment in 2016 as Fellow of the IEEE “For contributions to micro and nano manufacturing technology”. In 2017 my lab was awarded an ERC AdvG in the field of advanced micro-manufacturing.
Jovan KomatovicJovan Komatovic is a first year PhD student in Distributed Computing Laboratory (DCL) at School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL.He obtained Bachelor's and Master's degree in computer science at School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade.His research interests centre around theory and practice of highly secure distributed protocols.The current project Jovan is working on investigates the problem of accountable consensus algorithms.
Alireza KarimiAlireza Karimi received his B. Sc. and M. Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1987 and 1990, respectively, from Amir Kabir University (Tehran Polytechnic). Then he received his DEA and Ph. D. degrees both on Automatic Control from Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG) in 1994 and 1997, respectively. He was Assistant Professor at Electrical Engineering Department of Sharif University of Technology in Teheran from 1998 to 2000. Then he joined Automatic Laboratory of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne, Switzerland. He is currently Professor of Automatic Control and the head of "Data-Driven Modelling and Control" group. His research interests include data-driven controller tuning and robust control with application to mechatronic systems and electrical grids.
Nicola BraghieriNé en 1967 à Milan, Italie. Vit et travaille entre Lausanne et Genève. Études secondaires classiques et diplôme (magistrale) au Polytechnique de Milan avec un mémoire sur l’architecture alpine. En 1999, il obtient un titre de Docteur (PhD) à l’Université de Gênes à l'issue d'une recherche sur la théorie de la tradition. Actuellement, il est professeur à l’École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL. Entre 2014 et 2019 a été directeur de la Section d'ARchitecture. Il a enseigné dessin à la Faculté d’Architecture du Polytechnique de Milan. Il a également enseigné projet à l’École Polytechnique Fédérale de Zürich ETH et de Lausanne EPFL entre 2003 et 2008 en tant que professeur invité. En 2006, il a été professeur à la Haute École Européenne d’Architecture Urbaine SSEAU de Naples. Entre 2003 et 2008, il a été professeur à la Faculté d’Architecture de Gênes, titulaire de la chaire de Projet et Théorie du Projet, membre du Conseil des professeurs de l’École de Doctorat. En 2010, il fut nommé professeur (i.v.) d’Entwerfen und Raumgestaltung à l’Université Technique de Darmstadt TUD. Il a enseigné projet et il a dirigé les séminaires "Die Wallpaperarbeiten (Die Stadt als einen großen Wandteppich" et "Patchworkarbeiten (Die Fassade als Flickwerk)", sur la relation entre la figuration urbaine et la décoration d'intérieur. Il a donné des conférences, des cours et des critiques dans plusieurs universités européennes, dont l’Université technique de Hanovre TUH, la Leipzig Fachhochshule LFH, la Hochschule Rapperswil HSR-Z, l’Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich ETH-Z, le Rheinisch Westfälische Technische Hochschule d’Aix-la-Chapelle RWTH, l'École d'architecture à Marne-la-Vallée ENSA VT, l’Académie d’Architecture de l’Université de la Suisse italienne AAM.... Il a été membre des commissions du Diplôme, ainsi que du concours pour professeur, et évaluateur de projets de recherche d’importance nationale et européenne. Ses études et ses recherches concernent principalement les thématiques de la figuration architecturale, de la tradition, de la rhétorique et de la tectonique. Pendant ses quinze années d’activité d’enseignement, il a cherché à développer une méthode pédagogique élémentaire qui pose en termes réalistes la relation entre la théorie, la pratique et la poétique dans le projet et la figuration de l'architecture. Nicola Braghieri a publié plusieurs ouvrages théoriques: " Architettura, arte retorica ", " Riflessioni intorno alla costruzione e l’assemblaggio "; " Buoni edifici, meravigliose rovine ", autour de l’œuvre de Louis Kahn; " Case di Legno ", traduit en français et en espagnol. Il a introduit, traduit et adapté " Experiencing Architecture " de Steen Eiler Rasmussen. En 2018 à été publié à Berlin pour Divisare Press "Analogous Postcards", une monographie en cinq livrets sur son travail graphique. Il a rédigé des essais édités dans plusieurs revues scientifiques et des articles publiés dans plusieurs magazines d’architecture. Il a également collaboré avec l’hebdomadaire culturel Diario et a été auteur d’une émission d’architecture sur la radio indépendante Radiopopolare. En 2007, il a rédigé plusieurs articles pour les encyclopédies Motta et Einaudi. Depuis 2008, il est rédacteur du magazine d’architecture Casabella. Parallèlement à son activité d’enseignement et de recherche, il a travaillé en tant qu’architecte indépendant. Il a participé à des concours, fait des projets et réalisé des bâtiments. Il a ouvert son studio à Milan en 1996, après plusieurs années de formations et d’expériences professionnelles en Suisse et en Allemagne. Entre le 1998 et le 2007, il est associé à Valeria Cosmelli et Marlene Dörrie. En 2007, il a été co-fondateur avec son épouse Alessandra Spada de EX_M Architetti (www.ex-m.eu) basé à Milan et de 2013 à Genève. Nicola Braghieri a travaillé ces dernières années sur des projets publics de première importance. Il a participé à de nombreux concours d’architecture en Italie et à l’étranger, a reçu des prix. Par conséquent projeté et réalisait de nombreuses architectures. En 2002, il a gagné le concours international pour un nouveau quartier d’habitations à loyer modéré à Settimo Milanese, construit en 2013, et en 2011 le concours Vandœuvres Esplanade dans le Canton de Genève, actuellement en construction. En 2003 il a été finaliste du concours international pour le Centre de formation professionnelle à Sasso Marconi, en 2007 pour la transformation et pour l’élargissement de la Bibliothèque de Stockholm, en 2012 pour le Pavillon Suisse dans l’Expo 2015 et en 2014 pour un quartier de 2000 habitants à Genève Le Vernets. Ses projets sont publiés dans des volumes collectifs et sur les magazines Domus, Casabella, Area, Archi, d’Architettura, Il Giornale dell’Architettura, Werk, Bauen Wohnen, Bauwelt, Wettbewerbe Aktuell, Arkitektur and Arquitectura Viva. Son travail a été l’objet d’une exposition personnelle sous le patronage du Ministère allemand des Affaires Étrangères et aussi dans plusieurs expositions collectives. Il est assez actif, sous plusieurs pseudonymes, dans le domaine des Beaux-Arts numériques. Il produit collages numériques et mécaniques, s'occupe de falsification photographique et contrefaçon postale. 