Michel Raynal

Michel Raynal is an Emeritus Professor of Informatics at IRISA, University of Rennes, France, and a world-leading researcher in distributed computing, concurrency, and fault-tolerant systems.[1][3] He has authored over 180 papers in international journals and more than 360 conference papers, along with several books on the topic, and received awards such as the 2015 SIROCCO Prize and the 2018 IEEE Outstanding Technical Achievement in Distributed Computing Award.[2][4] A senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France and member of Academia Europaea, he has also served as a Distinguished Visiting Chair Professor at the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong.[1][6]