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. 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. 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. In 2019, she was appointed Full Professor at EPFL. 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. 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”. ==Recognition==