Anne-Marie Kermarrec Explained

Honorific Prefix:Professor
Anne-Marie Kermarrec
Awards:Michel-Monpetit Prize
INRIA Awards 2017
Website:https://www.epfl.ch/labs/sacs/
Alma Mater:University of Rennes
Discipline:Computer science
Workplaces:EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Main Interests:Distributed computing
Epidemic algorithms
Peer-to-peer networks
Machine learning

Anne-Marie Kermarrec (born 1970) is a French computer scientist. She is Professor at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), where she heads the Scalable Computing Systems Laboratory at 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.

Recognition

Kermarrec won the of the French Academy of Sciences in 2011, and the Dassault Systèmes Innovation Award of the Academy and the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) in 2017.

She was elected to the Academia Europaea in 2013. In 2017 she became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: SaCS – Scalable Computing Systems Lab. 2021-01-29. www.epfl.ch. en-GB.
  2. Web site: 21 new professors appointed at the two Federal Institutes of Technology ETH-Board. 2021-01-29. www.ethrat.ch.
  3. Web site: Anne-Marie Kermarrec. 2021-01-29. people.epfl.ch.
  4. https://www.acm.org/articles/people-of-acm/2017/anne-marie-kermarrec People of ACM: Anne-Marie Kermarrec
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