Irène Gijbels

Irène Gijbels is a mathematical statistician at KU Leuven in Belgium,[1] and an expert on nonparametric statistics. She has also collaborated with TopSportLab, a KU Leuven spin-off, on software for risk assessment of sports injuries.[2]

Irène Gijbels

Education and career

Gijbels earned her Ph.D. in 1990 from Limburgs Universitair Centrum. Her dissertation, supervised by Noël Veraverbeke, was Asymptotic Representations under Random Censoring.[3]

She joined KU Leuven after postdoctoral research as a Fulbright scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute.[4]

Book

With Jianqing Fan, Gijbels is the author of Local Polynomial Modelling and Its Applications (CRC Press, 1996).[5]

Recognition

Gijbels is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute and the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, and a fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.[4][6]

References
  1. "Irène Gijbels", KU Leuven Who's Who, retrieved 2017-10-29
  2. TopSportLab improves performance for professional sports people, KU Leuven, retrieved 2017-10-29
  3. Irène Gijbels at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. "Speaker biography", 58th Conference of the South African Statistical Association, retrieved 2017-10-29
  5. Reviews of Local Polynomial Modelling and Its Applications: Theo Gasser (1997), Mathematical Reviews, MR1383587; Hans-Georg Muller (June 1998), Journal of the American Statistical Association 93 (442): 835–836, doi:10.2307/2670134.
  6. Irène Gijbels opgenomen als lid van de KVAB, KU Leuven Department of Mathematics, 2016, retrieved 2017-10-29
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