Sergio Rajsbaum

He was a visiting researcher of Institut de recherche en informatique fondamentale (IRIF) on a Sabbatical academic year 2022 to 2023..[1][2] Rajsbaum was educated at the Facultad de Ingeniería of UNAM, earning a B.S.

Rajsbaum obtained his PhD from the Technion, Israel in 1991, with thesis Synchronization in Distributed Networks written under the direction of Shimon Even.

[2] He did postdoctoral studies from 1993 to 1995 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under Nancy Lynch.

The study of the deep connection between distributed computing and algebraic topology,[4] an example of the interplay between mathematics and computation[5] The collaboration that started in 1994 with Maurice Herlihy was the beginning of a research project that has lasted over 30 years, and overviewed in the book "Distributed Computing Through Combinatorial Topology", which they wrote together with mathematician Dmitry Feichtner-Kozlov.

His work "New combinatorial topology bounds for renaming: the upper bound" with his PhD student Armando Castañeda was recognized in the ACM Notable Computing Books and Articles of 2012 and received the Best Student Paper Award at PODC (2008).