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Valérie Issarny

Valérie Issarny (19 April 1964 – 12 November 2022) was a Director of Research at the National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (INRIA), France. Issarny was known for her research in middleware solutions for distributed collaborative services, including mobile services deployed over smartphones that interact with sensors.[1][2]

Issarny's awards include being recognized as one of the “12 Etoiles de l’Europe” (12 Stars of Europe) in 2013, an award given by the French Ministry of Research.[3] In 2014, she was recognised as Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour) for her contributions to science and European scientific cooperation in research and education.[4][5]

Early life and education

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Issarny got her PhD (Thesis title: Un modèle pour le traitement des exceptions dans les programmes parallèles (A model of exception handling for parallel programs), under the direction of Jean-Pierre Banâtre[6] and "Habilitation à diriger des recherches" (authorization/accreditation to supervise research) in computer science from the University of Rennes I, France, in 1991 and 1997, respectively. In 2007 she gave birth to her only daughter, Lily Issarny.

Issarny died on 12 November 2022.[7]

Research and career

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Issarny's research was on middleware solutions facilitating the development of distributed collaborative services, which include mobile services deployed over smartphones and interacting with sensors and actuators.

From 2002 to 2013, Issarny investigated distributed software systems that make use of wirelessly networked devices, with a special focus on service-oriented systems. Then, her research moved towards mobile distributed systems and supporting middleware, the aspects of emergence and evolution, very-large-scale mobile sensing, and mobile social crowd-sensing, and smart cities (e.g. as co-founder of Ambiciti, mobile app for street-level air and noise pollution[8][9][10]). She had given keynotes on adaptive middleware and participatory smart cities.[11][12]

She had led the CityLab@Inria research program[13] dedicated to studying urban software systems promoting citizen engagement. She was involved in the development Appcivist[14][15] for as an online community collaboration platform for Participatory Budgeting for the City of Vallejo,[16] which received the Berkeley Chancellor's Award for Public Service 2015-16 for Campus-Community collaboration with the City of Vallejo.[17]

Her work on FP7 ICT FET IP CONNECT project has been recognized by the French Ministry of Research. In the CONNECT project, Issarny worked on building “emergent middleware,” that is, the on-the-fly synthesis of the middleware in the form of software mediators that are required for the networked systems to be able to interact.

Issarny was the Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS),[18][19] and served as Secretary/Treasurer of the ACM Europe Council.[20] She was the associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering,[21] IEEE Transactions on Services Computing,[22] and ACM Transactions on the Internet of Things.[23] From 2007 to 2011, she was associate editor for the software engineering area of the ACM Computing Surveys.

Awards

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In 2013, Issarny was recognized as one of the 12 "Etoiles de l’Europe".[3]

Issarny was made Knight of France's Légion d'honneur for her contributions to higher education and research in 2014.[5]

In 2017, Valérie Issarny, Rafael Angarita and Nikolaos Georgantas were awarded a "best paper award" by the IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing for their publication “USNB: Enabling Universal Online Social Interactions".[24][25]

References

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  1. ^ "Valérie Issarny - Home". dl.acm.org. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  2. ^ "Members". Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Les Étoiles de l'Europe, un trophée qui valorise les chercheurs pour leur engagement européen". Horizon 2020 (in French). Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  4. ^ "Décret du 18 avril 2014 portant promotion et nomination". www.legifrance.gouv.fr. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  5. ^ a b "Valérie Issarny is awarded the Légion d'honneur". 23 June 2014. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  6. ^ "Un modele pour le traitement des exceptions dans les programmes paralleles". www.theses.fr. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
  7. ^ "Hommage à Valérie Issarny – Valérie Issarny" (in French). Retrieved 15 November 2022.
  8. ^ "Ambiciti, first mobile app for street-level air and noise pollution launches in Europe". European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT). 22 September 2016. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  9. ^ "Helsinki Citizens Walk Using "Ambiciti" App to Learn About Street-level Air and Noise Pollution". www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  10. ^ "Valérie Issarny, une chercheuse en villes intelligentes". La Croix (in French). 24 September 2014. ISSN 0242-6056. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  11. ^ "Keynotes - Valérie Issarny, Inria". conferences.computer.org. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  12. ^ "ARM 2019 - Workshop on Adaptive and Reflexive Middleware". arm2019.github.io. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  13. ^ "CityLab@Inria". CityLab. 8 December 2011. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  14. ^ "AppCivist". pb.appcivist.org. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  15. ^ Pathak, Animesh; Issarny, Valérie; Holston, James (16 May 2015). "AppCivist: a service-oriented software platform for socially sustainable activism". Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 2. ICSE '15. Florence, Italy: IEEE Press: 515–518.
  16. ^ "City of Vallejo and Professor James Holston Partner on Participatory Budgeting Community Platform | Anthropology". anthropology.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  17. ^ "AppCivist". CITRIS and the Banatao Institute. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  18. ^ "People of ACM: Valérie Issarny". www.acm.org. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  19. ^ "Editors-in-Chief". www.acm.org. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  20. ^ "US high school students invited to apply for 2019-2020 ACM/CSTA Cutler-Bell Prize". www.acm.org. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  21. ^ "CSDL | IEEE Computer Society". www.computer.org. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  22. ^ "CSDL | IEEE Computer Society". www.computer.org. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  23. ^ "TIOT Editorial Board". dl.acm.org. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  24. ^ 2017 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (CIC). [Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified]. 2017. ISBN 978-1-5386-2566-8. OCLC 1023074134.
  25. ^ "Best paper award, IEEE CIC". 16 October 2017. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
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