The MIDAS team

Christophe LEY
Associate Professor
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Favorite quote: "All models are wrong, but some are useful"
Research topics: flexible probability distributions / directional statistics / statistics VS machine learning / Stein's Method / sport statistics / interdisciplinary research
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Prizes:
- 2014: Elected Member of the ISI
- 2014: Prix Marie-Jeanne Laurent-Duhamel
- 2012: Wernaers Prize for the dissemination of knowledge
- 2006: Sterpenich Prize, 2006 Ruth and Joe Gani Prize.
Benedetta FRANCESCONI
Doctoral researcher
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Favorite quote: "Nosce te ipsum"
Research topics: Causal inference / Climate econometrics / Interdisciplinary research
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Damian MINGO NDIWAGO
Doctoral researcher
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Favorite quote: "Some worry about things they don't know exist, while others worry about things they know they don't know"
Research topics: Uncertainty applied to Ecohydrology
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Florian FELICE
Doctoral researcher
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Favorite quote: "Dans la vie, rien n'est à craindre, tout est à comprendre."
Research topics: statistics vs machine learning / explainable Machine Learning / sports analytics
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See more about FlorianGabriel CALVO BAYARRI
Visiting doctoral researcher
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Favorite quote: "Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible"
Research topics: Bayesian longitudinal models / model comparison / sport analysis
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Doctoral researcher
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Favorite quote: "dulce est desipere in loco"
Research topics: causal machine learning
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Guendalina PALMIROTTA
Post-doctoral researcher
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Favorite quote: "Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas" (A. Einstein)
Research topics: harmonic analysis on Riemannian manifolds / representation theory / real and complex analysis / Fourier analysis / PDE's / astrostatistics / directional statistics
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See more about GuendalinaKatarzyna MROZ
Research intern
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Favorite quote: "Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion" (S. Hawking)
Research topics: Survival Analysis / Interpretable Machine Learning / Statistically Enhanced Learning
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Ola RØNNING
Doctoral researcher
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Favorite quote: "It's probably fine."
Research topics: Programming Languages / Theory of Computing
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Senthil Murugan NAGARAJAN
Post-doctoral researcher
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Favorite quote: "When nothing is going right go left."
Research topics: Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Deep Learning / Internet of Things / Big Data Analytics / Natural Language Processing / and Security
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Doctoral researcher
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Favorite quote: "If you torture the data long enough it will confess."
Research topics: Directional statistics / Change-point detection
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- Patrick Wolf (Master student)