Bruno N Rémillard (born July 7, 1961) is a Canadian mathematical statistician and an honorary professor at HEC Montréal. He is the 2019 Gold Medalist of the Statistical Society of Canada and was inducted as a 2019 Fellow of the

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. Rémillard was President of the Statistical Society of Canada in 2022-23.

Biography

Rémillard was born in

Saint-Raphaël, Quebec Saint-Raphaël is a municipality of about 2,400 people in Bellechasse Regional County Municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches administrative region of Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acu ...

, Canada. He received a

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and a

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in mathematics from Université Laval in 1983 and 1985 and two years later a

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in probability at

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under the supervision of Donald A. Dawson. His dissertation was entitled "Large deviations and laws of the iterated logarithm for multidimensional diffusion processes with applications to diffusion processes with random coefficients." and earned him the Pierre-Robillard Award from the Statistical Society of Canada that recognizes the best PhD thesis defended in the relevant fields at a Canadian university in a given year. After working as an NSERC postdoctoral fellow at

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...

, Bruno N Rémillard joined the

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières The Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR) (''English: University of Quebec in Trois-Rivières''), also known as "l'université du peuple", established in 1969 and mainly located in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada, is a public universi ...

in 1988. He was promoted to the rank of Associate in 1992 and became full professor in 1996. He settled at HEC Montréal in 2001.

Publications

Rémillard has authored over 85 published papers, mostly in high-caliber international journals, in the fields of

probability Probability is the branch of mathematics concerning numerical descriptions of how likely an Event (probability theory), event is to occur, or how likely it is that a proposition is true. The probability of an event is a number between 0 and ...

statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ''wikt:Statistik#German, Statistik'', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of ...

, and

time series In mathematics, a time series is a series of data points indexed (or listed or graphed) in time order. Most commonly, a time series is a sequence taken at successive equally spaced points in time. Thus it is a sequence of discrete-time data. Exa ...

modelling. He has co-authored with

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nearly 20 papers in

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, The Annals of Statistics, Bernoulli,

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, Journal of the American Statistical Association,

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, etc. He is one of the 23 scientists to have published in the four IMS Annals. He is the author of a graduate monograph and co-authored of three other books, including two undergraduate textbooks: * Corina Reischer, Raymond Leblanc, Bruno Rémillard, and Denis Larocque, ''Théorie des probabilités: Problèmes et solutions.'', Presses de l'Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada, 2002 * Pierre Duchesne and Bruno Rémillard, ''Statistical modeling and analysis for complex data problems'', GERAD 25th Anniversary Series, Springer: New York, 2005 * Pierre Del Moral, Bruno Rémillard, and Sylvain Rubenthaler, ''Une introduction aux probabilités'', Éditions Ellipses, 2006 * B. Rémillard, ''Statistical methods for financial engineering'', Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2013.

Awards and honors

* Statistical Society of Canada Pierre-Robillard Award 1988 * Elected Member of the

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2000 * Best Paper Award Canadian Journal of Statistics 2003 * Pierre Laurin Award for Excellence in Research 2007 * Roger Charbonneau Award 2013 * Best Paper Award Econometrics * Statistical Society of Canada Gold Medalist 2019 * Fellow of the

2019

References

External links

Personal Webpage
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rémillard N, Bruno 1961 births Living people Canadian mathematicians Canadian statisticians Elected Members of the International Statistical Institute Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics People from Montmagny, Quebec Presidents of the Statistical Society of Canada Université Laval alumni Carleton University alumni Cornell University alumni Academic staff of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières Academic staff of HEC Montréal Mathematical statisticians