Bio

Since August 2025, I’m an assistant professor of statistics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

I was born and raised in Paris, France. My high-school degree was in Science, with a specialty in Mathematics. I was also interested in the humanities and almost pursued a degree in Literature instead of Science. Despite my commitment to the natural sciences, I was fortunate to be one of the students that represented my school for the concours général de littérature and the concours d’anglais (but I didn’t win either contest 😶).

I then moved to the U.S and studied Physics at Yale University within the context of a liberal arts education. I did research in Astronomy with the exoplanet group, under the supervision of professor Debra Fischer and Dr. Ji Wang.

After graduating, I joined Metrum Research Group, a biomedical lab that specializes in modeling and simulation. There, I completed a one-year Pharmacometrics bootcamp in Hartford and continued as a visiting scientist for another year, in Boston. I worked closely with Bill Gillespie on the mathematical modeling of biomedical processes, with an emphasis on Bayesian inference and its computational implementations.

From 2017 to 2022, I pursued a PhD in Statistics at Columbia University and wrote a PhD thesis on Markov chain Monte Carlo and Bayesian modeling under the supervision of professor Andrew Gelman.

From 2022 to 2025, I was a postdocotoral research fellow at the Flatiron Institute, Center for Computational Mathematics, in New York. My primary affiliation was with the Computational Statistics group. I was also part of the institute’s greater research effort in Machine Learning.

Hobbies

I do competitive ballroom dancing with some awesome people in Vancouver and before that I did it in New York (with some just as awesome people). I’m always down for a game of pick-up football/soccer and I occasionally play in a league.

As an undergraduate, I was a member of Just Add Water, a comedy group that does short form and musical improvisation. In Hartford, I was involved with the Sea Tea theater and the wonderful community around it. I have not been improvising on a regular basis lately but I still “follow the fear.”