Laurent d'Orazio has been a Professor at Univ Rennes, CNRS, IRISA since 2016. He received his PhD degree in computer science from Grenoble National Polytechnic Institute in 2007. He was an Associate Professor at Blaise Pascal University and LIMOS CNRS, Clermont-Ferrand from 2008 to 2016. His research interests include (big) data algorithms and architectures, distributed and parallel databases. He has published papers in Information Systems, Sigmod Record, Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience, EDBT. He served in Program Committees in BPM, workshops affiliated to VLDB, EDBT, etc. and Reviewing Committees in Distributed and Parallel Databases, Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. He is or has been involved (sometimes as a coordinator) in research projects such as the NSF MOCCAD project (since 2013), the ANR SYSEO project (797 000 euros funding, 2010-2015) and the STIC ASIA GOD project (30 000 euros funding,