Valérie Issarny was a leading researcher at Inria for over thirty years: a research fellow from 1992 to 2002 at Inria Rennes and subsequently at Inria Rocquencourt, head of the Arles team, which she founded, at Rocquencourt from 2002 to 2013, a research director within the MiMove team, coordinator of several European projects, and scientific coordinator of the Inria@SiliconValley programme at Berkeley from 2013 to 2018. A researcher in software engineering and middleware systems, her most recent work focused on the scientific challenges of digital technology in strengthening civic engagement. As editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems and chair of the ACM Europe Council, she was also deeply committed to her scientific community.
To mark the journal’s twentieth anniversary, ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems is publishing a tribute written by Amel Bennaceur (The Open University, UK), on behalf of Valérie’s friends and colleagues*. The text traces Valérie’s academic career, but above all highlights the impact she had on those she mentored: a blend of high standards and generosity, absolute rigour in her work, and unwavering support for her PhD students and colleagues.
Amel summarises this legacy through the letters of the name Valérie — Vision, Authority, Love, Emotion, Resolution, Integrity, Eternity — and concludes by reflecting on what she continues to pass on:
« More than any paper, project, position, or award, Valérie left a mark on people. »
The full tribute, in English, can be read on the ACM website: https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3841483
*Inria+alumni would like to extend its warmest thanks to Amel and to everyone who contributed to this text.
Paola Inverardi/GSSI - Nikolaos Georgantas/Inria - Georgios Bouloukakis/Telecom Sud Paris
Sonia Ben Mokhtar/CNRS - G.Blair/Lancaster AC - Nelly Bencomo/Durham AC
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