We are proud of Saifuddin Syed for having received the Pierre Robillard Award from the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC). Saif won this prize for his thesis “Non-reversible parallel tempering on optimized paths”, which was supervised by Professor Alexandre Bouchard-Côté. The Pierre Robillard Award is to recognize the best PhD thesis defended at a Canadian university in a given year and written in the fields covered by The Canadian Journal of Statistics.
Saif defended his thesis last year. Currently, he is a Florence Nightingale Fellow in computational statistics and machine learning at the University of Oxford's Department of Statistics.
To learn more about Saif's thesis, please see the full award announcement on the SSC website.
May 15, 2023