Anne-Marie Kermarrec

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-qcAAAAJDBLP: https://dblp.org/pers/k/Kermarrec:Anne=Marie.html Education Computer Science | 1993 – 1996 University of Rennes 1, France Computer Science | Habilitation à diriger les recherches 2002 – 2002 University of Rennes 1, France Teaching & PhD PhD Students Mathis Benjamin Manuel Randl, Milos Vujasinovic, Diana Andreea Petrescu, Rishi Sharma, Sami Omar Charles Abuzakuk Past EPFL PhD Students Anastasiia Kucherenko, Akash Balasaheb Dhasade 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 studentswill read, review and present papers from recent venues across the systems for ML spectrum. 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 Best Paper Award IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2010 Best Paper Award International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS) 2009 Best Paper Award International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE) 2014 10-year Best Paper Award ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2014 Best Paper Award ACM/IFP Middleware 2020 Jean-Claude Laprie Award (Test of time award) IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN) 2025 Best Paper Award Symposium on Reliable and Distributed Systems 2025