Debbie Dupuis
Debbie Janice Dupuis is a Canadian statistician who works in decision science and robust statistics with applications to statistical finance and environmental statistics. She is a professor in the Department of Decision Sciences at HEC Montréal.[1]
Education and career[]
Dupuis grew up in Memramcook, New Brunswick, and graduated from the Université de Moncton in 1989 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and a minor in computer science. With the support of an NSERC graduate fellowship, she earned a master's degree in mathematics and statistics from Queen's University.[2] She completed her Ph.D. in 1994 from the University of New Brunswick. Her dissertation, Knots in Spline Regression: Estimation and Inference Using Laplace Transform Techniques, was supervised by Roman Mureika,[3] and won the Governor General's Gold Medal. She was a faculty member at Dalhousie University and Western University before moving to HEC Montréal.[2]
Recognition[]
In 2012 the Université de Moncton gave Dupuis their Le Prisme award as a distinguished alumna in the sciences.[2] In 2017 Dupuis was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association "for outstanding contributions to the analysis of extreme values and the development of robust statistical methods; for designing and promoting the use of innovative statistical analysis techniques in a broad array of substantive fields, most notably the environmental sciences, finance and hydrology; and for dynamic and sustained involvement in editorial and organizational service to the profession".[1]
References[]
- ^ a b Debbie Dupuis honoured for her contribution to the practice of statistics, HEC Montréal, October 17, 2017, retrieved 2019-11-18
- ^ a b c An award for professor Debbie J. Dupuis, HEC Montréal, March 7, 2012, retrieved 2019-11-18
- ^ Debbie Dupuis at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
External links[]
- Home page
- Debbie Dupuis publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Living people
- Canadian statisticians
- Women statisticians
- Université de Moncton alumni
- Queen's University at Kingston alumni
- University of New Brunswick alumni
- Dalhousie University faculty
- University of Western Ontario faculty
- Fellows of the American Statistical Association