Prof Yannick BARAUD

Yannick Baraud is full Professor in Mathematics at the University of Luxembourg. He leads the group Developing contemporary mathematical statistics within the Department of Mathematics. He is also the ERA-Chair holder of “SanDAL“, a Chair in Mathematical Statistics and Data Science funded by the European Commission Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.

He works in the area of Mathematical Statistics with a special interest
in model selection, hypothesis testing, parametric and non-parametric estimation, robust estimation.

He is the Study Programme Director of the Master in Data Science.

• 2019–present: Professor at University of Luxembourg
• 2003–2019: Professor at University Nice Sophia Antipolis in France.
• 1999–2003: CNRS researcher at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris).
• 1997–1999: Agrégé préparateur (Lecturer) at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris). 

• 1995-1998: Ph.D Thesis Univeristy Paris-Sud
• 1992-1994: Student at the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan and University of Paris-Sud.