Erwan Le Merrer
Researcher at Inria
Brittany, France
Summary
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Top SchoolErwan Le Merrer is a researcher at Inria Rennes specializing in black-box AI models, algorithmic auditing, and the security and authenticity of automated systems. With a PhD and an HDR in distributed systems and a decade-plus industry research experience at Technicolor and Orange, he blends theoretical rigor with practical solutions for scalable storage, monitoring, and ML-driven analytics. He leads the scientific committee of the Société Informatique de France, reflecting his engagement in the broader CS community and policy/standards discussions. Erwan also runs an independent email/blog service for hundreds of daily users, demonstrating hands-on expertise in building and operating free-software infrastructure. Certified in pentesting and ethical hacking, he brings a rare mix of adversarial security skills and formal algorithmic insight to AI auditability.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR), distributed systems, cloud computing, algorithms, HDR, Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR), distributed systems, cloud computing, algorithms, HDR at Université de Rennes IMaster on parallel and distributed systems, Master on parallel and distributed systems at Université Bordeaux I
English, French, breton
Github Skills (36)
graph-algorithms10
lists10
python10
network-analysis10
unicorns10
graph-analysis10
graph-visualization10
complex-networks10
blackbox10
graph-theory10
audit9
reverse-engineering9
auditing8
inference8
security8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
erwanlemerrer/awesome-audit-algorithms
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
A curated list of algorithms and papers for auditing black-box algorithms.
Contributions:1 review, 15 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 9 months
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erwanlemerrer/rennes-survival-guide
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
What to do here?
Contributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 34 pushes in 1 month
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