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Rachid Guerraoui publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Rachid Guerraoui sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 639 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Rachid Guerraoui D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Rachid Guerraoui sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 78 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2012 - ACM Fellow For contributions to the theory and practice of reliable distributed computing.

Overview

Rachid Guerraoui is affiliated with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on computer science, with significant contributions in areas such as artificial intelligence, computer networks and communications, and information systems. The specialization also extends to electrical and electronic engineering and management science and operations research.

Their publication record includes extensive work on distributed systems and fault tolerance, privacy-preserving technologies in data, and stochastic gradient optimization techniques. Additional topics of interest include cryptography and data security, blockchain technology applications and security, adversarial robustness in machine learning, and optimization and search problems.

Some of Rachid Guerraoui's recent papers include the following:

  • "FLeet: Online Federated Learning via Staleness Awareness and Performance Prediction," 2022, published in ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
  • "Byzantine Machine Learning: A Primer," 2023, published in ACM Computing Surveys
  • "Genuinely Distributed Byzantine Machine Learning," 2022, published in Distributed Computing
  • "Collaborative Learning in the Jungle (Decentralized, Byzantine, Heterogeneous, Asynchronous and Nonconvex Learning)," 2020, published on arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Distributed Momentum for Byzantine-resilient Learning," 2020, published on arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent co-authors with whom Guerraoui has collaborated include Rafaël Pinot, Nirupam Gupta, Jovan Komatovic, Sadegh Farhadkhani, and Pierre Civit.

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, notably:

  • arXiv (Cornell University), with 56 publications
  • Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl), with 8 publications
  • Distributed Computing, with 4 publications
  • Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, with 3 publications
  • 2022 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), with 2 publications

Rachid Guerraoui also has a book publication titled Robust Machine Learning, published by Springer Nature in 2024.

In recognition of their contributions, Guerraoui was named an ACM Fellow in 2012 for work related to the theory and practice of reliable distributed computing.

Best Publications

  • The many faces of publish/subscribe

    Patrick Th. Eugster;Pascal A. Felber;Rachid Guerraoui;Anne-Marie Kermarrec

  • Machine learning with adversaries: byzantine tolerant gradient descent

    Peva Blanchard;El Mahdi El Mhamdi;Rachid Guerraoui;Julien Stainer

  • Epidemic information dissemination in distributed systems

    P.T. Eugster;R. Guerraoui;A.-M. Kermarrec;L. Massoulie

  • Lightweight probabilistic broadcast

    P. Th. Eugster;R. Guerraoui;S. B. Handurukande;P. Kouznetsov

  • Gossip-based peer sampling

    Márk Jelasity;Spyros Voulgaris;Rachid Guerraoui;Anne-Marie Kermarrec

  • Introduction to Reliable and Secure Distributed Programming

    Christian Cachin;Rachid Guerraoui;Lus Rodrigues

  • Software-based replication for fault tolerance

    R. Guerraoui;A. Schiper

  • On the correctness of transactional memory

    Rachid Guerraoui;Michal Kapalka

  • The Hidden Vulnerability of Distributed Learning in Byzantium

    El Mahdi El Mhamdi;Rachid Guerraoui;Sébastien Louis Alexandre Rouault

  • The peer sampling service: experimental evaluation of unstructured gossip-based implementations

    Márk Jelasity;Rachid Guerraoui;Anne-Marie Kermarrec;Maarten van Steen

  • Introduction to Reliable Distributed Programming

    Rachid Guerraoui;Luís Rodrigues

  • The next 700 BFT protocols

    Rachid Guerraoui;Nikola Knežević;Vivien Quéma;Marko Vukolić

  • Towards a theory of transactional contention managers

    Rachid Guerraoui;Maurice Herlihy;Bastian Pochon

  • Stretching transactional memory

    Aleksandar Dragojević;Rachid Guerraoui;Michal Kapalka

  • The Database State Machine Approach

    Fernando Pedone;Rachid Guerraoui;André Schiper

  • STMBench7: a benchmark for software transactional memory

    Rachid Guerraoui;Michal Kapalka;Jan Vitek

  • Everything you always wanted to know about synchronization but were afraid to ask

    Tudor David;Rachid Guerraoui;Vasileios Trigonakis

  • From Epidemics to Distributed Computing

    P. Th. Eugster;R. Guerraoui;A.-M. Kermarrec;L. Massoulie

  • Concurrency and distribution in object-oriented programming

    Jean-Pierre Briot;Rachid Guerraoui;Klaus-Peter Lohr

  • Lightweight probabilistic broadcast

    P.T. Eugster;R. Guerraoui;S.B. Handurukande;A.-M. Kermarrec

  • The Next 700 BFT Protocols

    Pierre-Louis Aublin;Rachid Guerraoui;Nikola Knežević;Vivien Quéma

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne-Marie Kermarrec
Anne-Marie Kermarrec École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
André Schiper
André Schiper École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Seth Gilbert
Seth Gilbert National University of Singapore
Patrick Eugster
Patrick Eugster Universita della Svizzera Italiana
Dan Alistarh
Dan Alistarh Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Svend Frolund
Svend Frolund project44
Willy Zwaenepoel
Willy Zwaenepoel University of Sydney
Hagit Attiya
Hagit Attiya Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Thomas A. Henzinger
Thomas A. Henzinger Institute of Science and Technology Austria

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