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Anne-Marie Kermarrec

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Anne-Marie Kermarrec
Anne-Marie Kermarrec in 2020
Born1970 (age 53–54)
NationalityFrance
OccupationProfessor
Awards
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Rennes 1
ThesisData replication for high availability and efficiency in large-scale shared memory architectures (1996)
Doctoral advisorMichel Banâtre
Academic work
DisciplineComputer science
InstitutionsEPFL, University of Rennes 1, Microsoft Research (Cambridge, UK), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Inria (Rennes)
Main interestsDistributed computing, epidemic algorithms, peer-to-peer networks, machine learning
Websitehttps://www.epfl.ch/labs/sacs/

Anne-Marie Kermarrec (born 1970) is a French computer scientist. She is a professor at EPFL, Switzerland, where she heads the Scalable Computing Systems Laboratory in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences.[1][2] Her research concerns distributed computing, epidemic algorithms, peer-to-peer networks, and systematic support for machine learning.[3]

Previously, she was director of research at Inria in Rennes.[4] In 2015, she founded Mediego, a startup company that provides systems for real-time online content personalization.[4]

Biography

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Anne-Marie Kermarrec received her PhD in 1996 from the University of Rennes 1. Her thesis was titled “Data replication for high availability and efficiency in large-scale shared memory architectures” and was supervised by Michel Banâtre.[5] She then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam with Andrew S. Tanenbaum until 1997, when she returned to France as a scientist at the University of Rennes 1. From 2000 to 2004, she worked at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK, before once again returning to Rennes as a director of research at Inria.[6] In 2012, Kermarrec was appointed as a scientific collaborator at the School of Computer and Communication Sciences, EPFL, co-directing the EPFL-Inria International Lab.[7] In 2019, she was appointed Full Professor at EPFL.[2]

Kermarrec founded a startup, Mediego, in 2015, providing real-time online content personalization systems. The startup won the Inria i-Lab contest in 2015 and was developed in the Ouest France OFF7 incubator with seed funding from the “IT-Translation” project at Inria.[8] In 2019, Mediego was sold to Welcoming Group, a personalized newsletter service.[9]

In 2021, Kermarrec published a book about women in computing, titled Numérique, compter avec les femmes. The book draws upon her personal experiences in academia and entrepreneurship, and in her own words, touches on everything from “the small number of women Nobel laureates” to “biases in AI” to “sex robots", as well as "some outlines of solutions, when I have any, because that isn’t magic either”.[10]

Recognition

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Kermarrec won the Michel-Monpetit Prize [fr] of the French Academy of Sciences in 2011,[11] and the Dassault Systèmes Innovation Award of the Academy and Inria in 2017.[12] In 2019, Kermarrec received the Chevalier de la légion d’Honneur, one of France’s highest distinctions.[8]

She was elected to the Academia Europaea in 2013.[13] In 2017, she became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.[14]

References

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  1. ^ "SaCS – Scalable Computing Systems Lab". www.epfl.ch. Retrieved January 29, 2021.
  2. ^ a b Evangelista, Sandy; Luterbacher, Celia (July 12, 2019). "Two new IC professors appointed" (Press release). EPFL. Retrieved December 9, 2024.
  3. ^ "Anne-Marie Kermarrec". people.epfl.ch. Retrieved January 29, 2021.
  4. ^ a b People of ACM: Anne-Marie Kermarrec, retrieved March 5, 2017.
  5. ^ Kermarrec, Anne-Marie (1996). Une approche globale fondée sur la réplication pour la disponibilité et l’efficacité des systèmes extensibles à mémoire partagée [Data replication for high availability and efficiency in large-scale shared memory architectures] (PhD thesis) (in French). Université de Rennes 1. 1996REN10105. Retrieved December 9, 2024.
  6. ^ "Anne-Marie Kermarrec : Prix de l'innovation Inria – Académie des sciences - Dassault systèmes" (Press release) (in French). Inria. October 23, 2019. Retrieved December 9, 2024.
  7. ^ Luterbacher, Celia (May 7, 2019). "Anne-Marie Kermarrec receives "Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur"" (Press release). EPFL. Retrieved December 9, 2024.
  8. ^ a b "Anne-Marie Kermarrec, chercheuse puis entrepreneuse rennaise, reçoit les insignes de Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur" (Press release) (in French). Inria. March 28, 2019. Retrieved December 9, 2024.
  9. ^ "Anne-Marie Kermarrec, un engagement fort pour la diversité dans le numérique" (Press release) (in French). Inria. March 8, 2021. Retrieved December 9, 2024.
  10. ^ Kermarrec, Anne-Marie (2021). Numérique, compter avec les femmes (in French). Paris: Odile Jacob. ISBN 9782738154446. Retrieved December 9, 2024.
  11. ^ Prix Michel Monpetit, Lauréats Précédents (PDF) (in French), French Academy of Sciences, retrieved May 29, 2019
  12. ^ "Anne-Marie Kermarrec : Inria – French Académie des sciences – Dassault Systèmes Innovation Award", Inria Awards 2017, Inria, archived from the original on May 30, 2019, retrieved May 29, 2019
  13. ^ Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Academia Europaea, retrieved May 29, 2019
  14. ^ "ACM Recognizes New Fellows", Communications of the ACM, 60 (3): 23, March 2017, doi:10.1145/3039921.


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