Gérard Biau

Gérard Biau is a French professor whose contributions are specialized in statistics and machine learning. He studied at Mines Paris – PSL and obtained his PhD under the supervision of Alain Berlinet at Montpellier University.

After getting his accreditation to supervise research in 2003, he was appointed as full professor at Montpellier University in 2004. In 2007, he joined the Laboratoire de Probabilités, Statistique et Modélisation of Sorbonne University. Gérard Biau is currently a founding member and director of SCAI, the Sorbonne Center for Artificial Intelligence of Sorbonne University.

He was a junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France from 2012 to 2017, and served as the President of the French Statistical Society from 2015 to 2018. In 2018, he was awarded the Michel-Monpetit Prize. In 2024, he was appointed as a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France, and elected as a permanent member of the French Academy of Sciences.

Gérard Biau is an associate editor of the statistical journals ''International Statistical Review'' (since 2009), ''Journal of the American Statistical Association'' (since 2017), ''Biometrika'' (since 2018), and ''The Annals of Statistics'' (since 2019). Provided by Wikipedia