Professor of Statistics @ ESSEC Business School Asia-Pacific campus Singapore 🇸🇬
https://pierrealquier.github.io/
Previously: RIKEN AIP 🇯🇵 ENSAE Paris 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 UCD Dublin 🇮🇪 🇪🇺
Random posts about stats/maths/ML/AI, poor jokes & birds photo 🌈
Pierre Alquier
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Hear the beautiful song of the white-rumped shama #birds
October 6-7, 2026, at Université Laval, in Québec City, we organize the 3rd edition of our "Workshop on Fairness and Discrimination in Insurance" ! event.fourwaves.com/aeda2027/pages Registration is now open #SaveTheDate
Just learned about this website, with open mathematical problems in machine-learning-adjacent areas such as statistics, learning theory, and optimization. E.g. many open problems from COLT are there. Cool stuff.
solveall.org
The video recording of Donya's talk is up: youtu.be/r39iRaWymT8
François Englert (1932 – 2026)
It is with great sadness that we announce that Belgian theoretical physicist, François Englert, has passed away at the age of 93.
Read more: home.cern/francois-eng...
Interesting viewing: youtu.be/7WGtiwvxQRs?...
White-throated kingfisher, about to say something important #birds
Pulau Ubin
My neighbours
Little egret and white-throated kingfisher #birds
Pierre Alquier
BBC article about Brian Ripley of the #RStats Core team given this week's excellent news concerning 2026 Rousseeuw Price for Statistics recognition for him and the core team.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Join us this Thursday for the Theory of Interpretable AI Seminar!
Donya Saless will present her COLT 2025 work on using small subsets of training data to provide robust, compact explanations for ML predictions.
16:00 CET | 10:00 EST
tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/