Anne-Marie Kermarrec

Nationality: French

EPFL IC IINFCOM SACS
BC 162 (Bâtiment BC)
Station 14
1015 Lausanne


Anne-Marie Kermarrec (CV) is Professor at EPFL
since January 2020. Before that she was the CEO of the Mediego startup that she founded in April 2015. Mediego provides content personalization services for online publishers. She was a Research Director at Inria, France from 2004 to 2015. She got a Ph.D. thesis from University of Rennes (France), and has been with Vrije Universiteit, NL and Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK. Anne-Marie received an ERC grant in 2008 and an ERC Proof of Concept in 2013. She received the Montpetit Award in 2011 and the Innovation Award in 2017 from the French Academy of Science. She has been elected to the European Academy in 2013 and named ACM Fellow in 2016. She was elected at the French Academy of Science in 2024. Her research interests are in large-scale distributed systems,
epidemic algorithms,
peer to peer networks and system support for machine learning.
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aIAy-qcAAAAJ
DBLP: https://dblp.org/pers/k/Kermarrec:Anne=Marie.html

Education

Computer Science

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1993 – 1996 University of Rennes 1, France

Computer Science

| Habilitation à diriger les recherches

2002 – 2002 University of Rennes 1, France

Awards

Elected Fellow of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

2017

Elected Member of the Academia Europaea

Academia Europaea

2013

Elected ELLIS Fellow

ELLIS Society

2024

Chevalier de la Légion d' Honneur

French Governement

2019

Innovation Award from the French Academy of Science/Dassault Systems/Inria

French Academy of Science

2017

Google Focused Award

Google

2013

Montpetit Award

French Academy of Science Award

2011

ACM EuroSys Lifetime Achievement Award

ACM EuroSys

2025

Elected Member at the French Academy of Science

French Academy of Science

2024

Teaching & PhD

PhD Students

Mathis Benjamin Manuel Randl, Milos Vujasinovic, Diana Andreea Petrescu, Rishi Sharma, Akash Balasaheb Dhasade, Sami Omar Charles Abuzakuk

Past EPFL PhD Students

Anastasiia Kucherenko

Courses

Systems for data management and data science

CS-460

This is a course for students who want to understand modern large-scale data analysis systems and database systems. The course covers fundamental principles for understanding and building systems for managing and analyzing large amounts of data. It covers a wide range of topics and technologies.

Topics in Machine Learning Systems

CS-723

This course will cover the latest technologies, platforms and research contributions in the area of machine learning systems. The students will read, review and present papers from recent venues across the systems for ML spectrum.