Aurore Delaigle is a Professor and ARC Future Fellow in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the

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.Professor Aurore Delaigle
Retrieved on 14 August 2014. Her research interests include

nonparametric statistics Nonparametric statistics is the branch of statistics that is not based solely on parametrized families of probability distributions (common examples of parameters are the mean and variance). Nonparametric statistics is based on either being distr ...

deconvolution In mathematics, deconvolution is the operation inverse to convolution. Both operations are used in signal processing and image processing. For example, it may be possible to recover the original signal after a filter (convolution) by using a deco ...

and functional data analysis.Aurore Delaigle, University of Melbourne
Retrieved on 14 August 2014.

Education and career

Following her undergraduate degree in mathematics at

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, she completed a PhD in statistics at the same institution on kernel estimation in deconvolution problems.Kernel estimation in deconvolution problems
PhD thesis, KU Leuven. Retrieved on 14 August 2014. In her early career, she undertook a postdoctoral fellowship at

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, before joining

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as an assistant professor.Personal website
Retrieved on 14 August 2014. She was also a Reader at the

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. In 2014, she was promoted to Professor at the University of Melbourne.

Awards and fellowships

While at UC San Diego, she was awarded a Hellman Fellowship (2006–07). In 2013, she was awarded the Moran Medal from the

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, for her contribution to "contemporary statistical problems". From 2013 to 2018, she is an ARC Future Fellow, investigating new nonparametric statistical methods. She is a Fellow of the

Institute of Mathematical Statistics The Institute of Mathematical Statistics is an international professional and scholarly society devoted to the development, dissemination, and application of statistics and probability. The Institute currently has about 4,000 members in all parts o ...

for her work in "non-parametric function estimation, measurement error problems, and functional data". She is also an elected member of the

International Statistical Institute The International Statistical Institute (ISI) is a professional association of statisticians. It was founded in 1885, although there had been international statistical congresses since 1853. The institute has about 4,000 elected members from gov ...

. In 2018 she became a

Fellow of the American Statistical Association Like many other academic professional societies, the American Statistical Association (ASA) uses the title of Fellow of the American Statistical Association as its highest honorary grade of membership. The number of new fellows per year is limited ...

and in May 2020 she was elected Fellow of the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Delaigle, Aurore Living people Australian statisticians Australian women scientists Women statisticians Elected Members of the International Statistical Institute Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Fellows of the American Statistical Association Université catholique de Louvain alumni University of California, San Diego faculty Academic staff of the University of Melbourne Belgian emigrants to Australia Year of birth missing (living people) Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science