El Mahdi El Mhamdi’s research is motivated by the understanding of robust information processing in nature, machines and society, with a focal line of research on the mathematics of collective information processing and distributed learning. He is the co-author of the upcoming book “The Fabulous Endeavor: Robustly Beneficial Information” on the scientific and social challenges of large-scale information processing, already available in French under “Le Fabuleux Chantier” (EDP Sciences, November 2019)