[1][2] Her research concerns distributed computing, epidemic algorithms, peer-to-peer networks, and systematic support for machine learning.

Her thesis was titled “Data replication for high availability and efficiency in large-scale shared memory architectures” and was supervised by Michel Banâtre.

[5] 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.

[6] 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.

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”.