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
  1. Debbie Dupuis honoured for her contribution to the practice of statistics, HEC Montréal, October 17, 2017, retrieved 2019-11-18
  2. An award for professor Debbie J. Dupuis, HEC Montréal, March 7, 2012, retrieved 2019-11-18
  3. Debbie Dupuis at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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