She then earned two Master of Advanced Studies (DEA) degrees in France: one in mathematics in 1996 from Pierre and Marie Curie University and another in 1997 in physics from the École normale supérieure.
[5] She joined CNRS at the University of Paris-Sud in 2001 (overlapping with postdoctoral studies at Berkeley and the Berkeley Mathematical Sciences Research Institute), joined the Tel Aviv University faculty in 2007[6], and moved her CNRS position from Paris-Sud to Paris Diderot in 2010.[5].
[5] She became director of the Center of Data Science at NYU and a professor at the Courant Institute in September 2018.
[2] In 2006, Kempe won the bronze medal of CNRS and the Irène Joliot-Curie Prize of the French government.
[1] In 1998 she received a reward from Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (English: "German Academic Scholarship Foundation") which was awarded to only 0.25% of students at the time.