He has published more than 70 technical papers on distributed systems, group communication, fault-tolerance, high availability, cluster computing, client/server middleware, and wireless mobile ad-hoc networks in major international journals and conferences. He also holds two patents. Prof. Friedman serves as the program co-chair for SRDS 2008, was program vice-chair of ICDCS 2007 and the program chair for the MiNEMA summer school 2005, and was a PC member of various international conferences such as DSN, ICDCS, SRDS, PODC, DISC, EDCC, LADC, SSS, HotDep, and MDM. Formerly, Roy Friedman has been an academic specialist at IRISA/INRIA (France) and a researcher at Cornell University (USA). He is one of the Founders of PolyServe Inc. (acquired by HP) and holds a Ph.D. (1994) and a B.Sc. (1990) in Computer Science from the Technion.