Pierre ALQUIER

Professor
department: Information Systems, Decision Sciences and Statistics
Campus de Singapour
Statistical Data Analysis – Probability Theory & Mathematical Statistics
Career
Biography

Professor (Full), ESSEC Business School

Diplomas

  • 2013: Habilitation à diriger des recherches (Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) France)
  • 2006: PhD (mathematical statistics) (Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) France)
  • 2003: MSc in Probability Theory and Statistics (Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) France)
  • 2003: Diplôme de statisticien-économiste (L’École nationale de la statistique et de l’administration économique (ENSAE) France)
Career
Full-time academic appointments
    • 2023 – Now : Professor (ESSEC Business School Singapore)
Other appointments
    • 2019 – 2022 : Research scientist (RIKEN Japan)
Other Academic Appointments
    • 2014 – 2019 : Professor (L’École nationale de la statistique et de l’administration économique (ENSAE) France)
    • 2012 – 2014 : Lecturer (University College of Dublin Ireland)
    • 2007 – 2012 : Assistant Professor (Université Paris Diderot (Paris VII) France)
    • 2006 – 2007 : Teaching and Research Assistant (Université Paris-Dauphine, PSL France)
Distinctions

Awards

  • 2019 : Best Paper Award (Asian Conference on Machine Learning, Japan)
Research

Journal articles

Conference Proceedings

Presentations at an Academic or Professional conference

Teaching
Other activities
Research activities
  • Participation in scientific commissions or reviewer for a conference
    • 2025 – 2025: ALT 2025: PC chair (Association for Algorithmic Learning Theory (AALT) )
    • 2024 – 2024: COLT 2024: senior PC member (Association for Computational Learning (ACL) Canada)
    • 2024 – 2024: ALT 2024: senior PC member (Association for Algorithmic Learning Theory (AALT) United States of America)
    • 2023 – 2023: ACML 2023: PC chair (Asian Conference on Machine Learning Turkey)
    • 2023 – 2023: COLT 2023: senior PC member (Association for Computational Learning (ACL) India)
    • 2023 – 2023: ALT 2023: senior PC member (Association for Algorithmic Learning Theory (AALT) Singapore)
    • 2022 – 2022: NeurIPS 2022: AC (area chair) (Neural Information Processing Systems foundation United States of America)
    • 2022 – 2022: COLT 2022: PC chair (Association for Computational Learning (ACL) United Kingdom)
    • 2022 – 2022: AISTATS 2022: AC (area chair) (The Society for AI and Statistics )
    • 2021 – 2021: NeurIPS 2021: AC (area chair) (Neural Information Processing Systems foundation United States of America)
    • 2021 – 2021: ITISE 2021: PC chair (Universidad de Granada Spain)
    • 2020 – 2020: ALT 2020: PC chair (Association for Algorithmic Learning Theory (AALT) United States of America)
    • 2018 – 2018: JDS 2018: scientific committee member (Société Française de Statistique (SFdS) France)
    • 2016 – 2016: AISTATS 2016: publication chair (The Society for AI and Statistics Spain)
  • Organization of a conference or a seminar
    • 2024 – 2024: The 13th Workshop on High Dimensional Data Analysis (HDDA-XIII) (ESSEC Business School Singapore)
    • 2024 – 2024: Interpretable Inference via Principled BNP Approaches in Biomedical Research and Beyond (National University of Singapore Singapore)
    • 2024 – 2024: CNRS@CREATE — ESSEC APAC workshop (ESSEC Business School Singapore)
    • 2024 – 2024: Approximate Inference in Theory and Practice Conference (Institut Henri Poincaré France)
  • Other academic activity
    • 2024 – Now: arXiv moderator (arXiv United States of America)
  • Member of an academic association
    • 2022 – Now: Member (Société Française de Statistique (SFdS) France)
    • 2022 – Now: Member (Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles (SMAI) France)
    • 2022 – Now: Member (Société Mathématique de France (SMF) France)
    • 2022 – Now: Member (European Mathematical Society (EMS) )
    • 2014 – Now: Member (IMS – Bernoulli Society United States of America)
  • Senior or Associate Editor
    • 2022 – Now: Action Editor: Transactions in Machine Learning Research
    • 2020 – Now: Action Editor: Journal of Machine Learning Research
  • Editorial Board Membership
    • 2020 – 2022: Topic Advisory Panel: Entropy
Theses
  • 2019 : CAREL L. (L’École nationale de la statistique et de l’administration économique (ENSAE)), Thesis director, Big data analysis in the field of transportation
  • 2020 : CHÉRIEF-ABDELLATIF B.-E. (L’École nationale de la statistique et de l’administration économique (ENSAE)), Thesis director, Contributions to the theoretical study of variational inference and robustness
  • 2017 : COTTET V. (L’École nationale de la statistique et de l’administration économique (ENSAE)), Thesis co-director, Theoretical study of some statistical procedures applied to complex data
  • 2017 : MAI T. T. (L’École nationale de la statistique et de l’administration économique (ENSAE)), Thesis director, PAC-Bayesian estimation of low-rank matrices
  • 2023 : ROSIER A. (Université Paris X Nanterre), Thesis co-director, Contributions to statistics of stochastic processes