André Schiper

André Schiper is a Professor Emeritus at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Department of Computer Science. His research interests include distributed systems, fault tolerance, replication, transactions, middleware, and MANETs. He has contributed to the development of protocols and frameworks such as SAMOA and GrPerf, and his work is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Hasler Foundation. Schiper has held a sabbatical at Cornell University and the École Polytechnique in France. He has supervised numerous PhD theses at EPFL and is a member of editorial boards for several journals. His research focuses on distributed computing and system reliability.

Andre Schiper is a professor at the School of Communication and Computer Science, EPFL, specializing in distributed computing and fault tolerance. His research focuses on developing robust and efficient algorithms for distributed systems, particularly in the areas of group communication, consensus, and replication. Schiper's work includes the design of total order broadcast and multicast algorithms, probabilistic broadcast techniques for wireless networks, and the implementation of causal ordering abstractions. He has also contributed to the understanding of replication in databases and distributed systems, emphasizing fault-tolerance through software-based approaches. His research has led to the development of simulation tools like Neko, which aid in the prototyping of distributed algorithms.