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Anne-Marie Kermarrec
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Anne-Marie Kermarrec in 2020
Born 1970 (age 53–54)
Alma mater University of Rennes
Awards Michel-Monpetit Prize
INRIA Awards 2017
Scientific career
Institutions EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

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. Her research concerns distributed computing, epidemic algorithms, peer-to-peer networks, and systematic support for machine learning.

Previously she was director of research at INRIA in Rennes.

In 2015, she founded Mediego, a startup company that provides systems for real-time online content personalization.

Recognition

Kermarrec won the Michel-Monpetit Prize [fr] 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.

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