Regular biography
Anne-Marie Kermarrec is a Full Professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Department of Computer Science. She holds a professorship in large-scale distributed systems, epidemic algorithms, peer-to-peer networks, and system support for machine learning. She has been with EPFL since January 2020 and is also Vice-President for Doctoral Education and Continuing Education. Her research interests include systems for data management and data science, as well as topics in machine learning systems. She has held positions at Inria, Vrije Universiteit, and Microsoft Research Cambridge, and has received several awards, including the Montpetit Award and the Innovation Award from the French Academy of Science.
Scholar-generated biography
Anne-Marie Kermarrec is a professor specializing in distributed systems, social networks, and gossip protocols. Her research focuses on the design and analysis of scalable, decentralized systems for efficient information dissemination and group communication. She has contributed significantly to the development of multicast infrastructures, peer-to-peer overlays, and gossip-based protocols for large-scale systems. Her work explores the challenges of reliability, scalability, and fault tolerance in distributed environments, with applications in social networks and content distribution. Kermarrec's research emphasizes lightweight, probabilistic, and epidemic-style dissemination mechanisms to enhance performance and robustness in decentralized systems.