[1] In 2007, Cani received the national Irène Joliot-Curie Prize to acknowledge her actions in mentoring women in computer science.

She won the Eurographics Award in 2011 for her work in outstanding technical contributions to the creation of 3D content.

[4] Since May 2017, Cani has been professor of computer science at Ecole Polytechnique, Paris-Saclay, France.

Prior to this, she held the same position at Grenoble INP from 1997 where she was the head of the INRIA research group EVASION, part of Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann, a joint lab of CNRS and Grenoble Université Alpes.

For a period of five years, from 1993 to 1997, she served as an assistant professor at Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble.