Biography:Judith Rousseau
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| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | Université Paris-Dauphine University of Oxford Paris Descartes University ENSAE |
| Thesis | Étude des propriétés asymptotiques des estimateurs de Bayes (1997) |
| Doctoral advisors | Paul Deheuvels and Christian Robert |
Judith Rousseau is a Bayesian statistician who studies frequentist properties of Bayesian methods.[1] She is a professor of statistics at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford,[2] a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics,[3] and a Fellow of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis.[4]
Education and career
Rousseau studied statistics and economics at ENSAE ParisTech, starting in pure mathematics but changing fields after taking a statistics class "because of all the interactions it has with other fields".[1] She completed a doctorate in 1997 at Pierre and Marie Curie University. Her dissertation, Asymptotic properties of Bayes estimates, was supervised by Christian Robert.[2][5]
She taught at Paris Descartes University from 1998 to 2004, Paris Dauphine University beginning in 2004, and (while on leave from Paris Dauphine) at ENSAE from 2009 to 2014.[2] She joined Oxford in 2017.[6]
Recognition
In 2015 Rousseau won the inaugural Ethel Newbold Prize of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability. The award recognizes a "recipient of any gender who is an outstanding statistical scientist for a body of work that represents excellence in research in mathematical statistics". The body of work for which Rousseau was recognized includes her work on infinite-dimensional variants of the Bernstein–von Mises theorem.[1]
In 2019, she was awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advance Grant for her project "General theory for Big Bayes".
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 ""I like the Bayesian approach because I find it natural and it has this kind of internal coherence that makes it very appealing": An interview with Judith Rousseau", Statistics Views (John Wiley & Sons), 30 August 2016, http://www.statisticsviews.com/details/feature/9745741/I-like-the-Bayesian-approach-because-I-find-it-natural-and-it-has-this-kind-of-i.html, retrieved 2018-02-08
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Professor Judith Rousseau, Jesus College, Oxford, https://www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-judith-rousseau, retrieved 2018-02-08
- ↑ Honored IMS Fellows, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, http://www.imstat.org/awards/honored_fellows.htm, retrieved 2018-02-08
- ↑ ISBA Fellows, International Society for Bayesian Analysis, https://bayesian.org/membership/isba-fellows/, retrieved 2018-02-08
- ↑ Judith Rousseau at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "Appointments", Oxford University Gazette 5160, 23 February 2017, https://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/2016-2017/23february2017-no5160/notices/, retrieved 9 February 2018
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