Brigitte Kerhervé is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Université du Québec
à Montréal, Canada, she joined in 1992. Her research interests include quality of service (QoS) management, metadata for multimedia databases as well as advanced database systems to support distributed and adaptive multimedia applications. Since several years she is involved in different research projects on these topics and she has published several papers in conferences, journals and workshops. More recently she is investigating computing techniques to answer the needs of new media artists and creators working on new narrative practises using audio and video.
Brigitte is, or has been, involved in several conferences and workshops including
ACM Multimedia, ACM SIGMOD, ACM MIR, MIS, IWQOS, IDEAS, CARI, DEXA/QPMIDS, CASCON, SITIS, MMM, MCeTECH, AMT.
Brigitte received her Ph.D. in computer science in 1986 from the University
of Paris VI, France. From 1982 to 1987, she participated in the Sabre project at Institut National
de Recherche en Automatique et Automatique
(INRIA, France), on the design and implementation of a
complete database system. From 1987 to 1989, she has been involved in european research projects
in the field of advanced database systems. From 1989 to 1992, she was an assistant professor at the
Ecole Nationale Supérieure
des Télécommunications (Telecom Paris, France).