Thierry Warin, PhD

Hi! I’m Thierry Warin, Professor of Data Science for Global Transformations at HEC Montreal, principal investigator of the World Economy theme at CIRANO and Fellow at the Digital, Data and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard Business School. I am also the founder of quantum simulations. I am an alumnus of the Harvard Business Analytics Program (HBAP 2020) and PhD from Essec Business School (2000).

Short Bio

Thierry Warin is Professor of Data Science for Global Transformations at HEC Montréal and Principal Investigator at CIRANO (Canada). He was a Fellow at the Digital, Data and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard Business School and a Researcher at CERIUM–CEUE (Université de Montréal). A past President of the International Trade and Finance Association, he previously held academic appointments at Polytechnique Montréal, Middlebury College, and Sun Yat Sen University in Guangzhou, as well as visiting positions at Harvard University.

His research bridges economics and computational methods, moving from traditional econometrics toward data science approaches to global transformations. His current work integrates network theory, natural-language processing, and retrieval-augmented generation to study information flows, algorithmic coordination, and technological change. He earned his Ph.D. in Financial Economics from ESSEC Business School in Paris and is a graduate of the Harvard Business Analytics Program.

Research Examples

  • De Marcellis-Warin, N., Kouloukoui, D., & Warin, T. (2023). Mapping global conversations on sustainable development through natural language processing. Journal of Cleaner Production, 414, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.137369

  • Marty, F., & Warin, T. (2025). Deciphering algorithmic collusion: Insights from bandit algorithms and implications for antitrust enforcement. Journal of Economy and Technology, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ject.2024.10.001

  • Melchior, C., Warin, T., & Oliveira, M. (2025). An investigation of the COVID-19-related fake-news sharing on Facebook: A mixed-methods approach. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 213, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2024.123969

  • Warin, T. (2021). Global research on coronaviruses: Metadata-based analysis for public health policies. JMIR Medical Informatics, 9(11), 1–28. https://doi.org/10.2196/31510

  • Warin, T. (2024). Access Statistics Canada’s open economic data for statistics and data science courses. Technology Innovations in Statistics Education, 15(1), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.5070/T5.1868

  • Warin, T., & Stojkov, A. (2023). Sovereign bond yield differentials across Europe: A structural entropy perspective. Entropy, 25(4), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.3390/e25040630

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Teaching

Visit my courses and some pedagogical innovations. I have created a platform (also full of code!) for my student as well as a data platform Mondo international.

Students supervision

Philanthropic activities

  • I am the former founding president of edhaiti, an NGO I started in 2011 after a mission in Haïti for the Inter American Development Bank following the terrible 2010 earthquake. At the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, I also created the maclasseenligne.org and Humanités numériques projects (see the EdTech menu).
  • I am currently working on Science des données au féminin en Afrique with researcher Bernice Bancole. It is a francophone initiative targeting 200 young ladies in Benin, etc. We provide a two-year long program, solving issues using R and other languages => data science for humanity.

Thierry Warin, PhD

Hi! I’m Thierry Warin, Professor of Data Science for Global Transformations at HEC Montreal, principal investigator of the World Economy theme at CIRANO and Fellow at the Digital, Data and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard Business School. I am also the founder of quantum simulations. I am an alumnus of the Harvard Business Analytics Program (HBAP 2020) and PhD from Essec Business School (2000).

Short Bio

Thierry Warin is Professor of Data Science for Global Transformations at HEC Montréal and Principal Investigator at CIRANO (Canada). He was a Fellow at the Digital, Data and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard Business School and a Researcher at CERIUM–CEUE (Université de Montréal). A past President of the International Trade and Finance Association, he previously held academic appointments at Polytechnique Montréal, Middlebury College, and Sun Yat Sen University in Guangzhou, as well as visiting positions at Harvard University.

His research bridges economics and computational methods, moving from traditional econometrics toward data science approaches to global transformations. His current work integrates network theory, natural-language processing, and retrieval-augmented generation to study information flows, algorithmic coordination, and technological change. He earned his Ph.D. in Financial Economics from ESSEC Business School in Paris and is a graduate of the Harvard Business Analytics Program.

Research Examples

  • De Marcellis-Warin, N., Kouloukoui, D., & Warin, T. (2023). Mapping global conversations on sustainable development through natural language processing. Journal of Cleaner Production, 414, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.137369

  • Marty, F., & Warin, T. (2025). Deciphering algorithmic collusion: Insights from bandit algorithms and implications for antitrust enforcement. Journal of Economy and Technology, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ject.2024.10.001

  • Melchior, C., Warin, T., & Oliveira, M. (2025). An investigation of the COVID-19-related fake-news sharing on Facebook: A mixed-methods approach. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 213, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2024.123969

  • Warin, T. (2021). Global research on coronaviruses: Metadata-based analysis for public health policies. JMIR Medical Informatics, 9(11), 1–28. https://doi.org/10.2196/31510

  • Warin, T. (2024). Access Statistics Canada’s open economic data for statistics and data science courses. Technology Innovations in Statistics Education, 15(1), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.5070/T5.1868

  • Warin, T., & Stojkov, A. (2023). Sovereign bond yield differentials across Europe: A structural entropy perspective. Entropy, 25(4), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.3390/e25040630

To go further, click here

Teaching

Visit my courses and some pedagogical innovations. I have created a platform (also full of code!) for my student as well as a data platform Mondo international.

Students supervision

Philanthropic activities

  • I am the former founding president of edhaiti, an NGO I started in 2011 after a mission in Haïti for the Inter American Development Bank following the terrible 2010 earthquake. At the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, I also created the maclasseenligne.org and Humanités numériques projects (see the EdTech menu).
  • I am currently working on Science des données au féminin en Afrique with researcher Bernice Bancole. It is a francophone initiative targeting 200 young ladies in Benin, etc. We provide a two-year long program, solving issues using R and other languages => data science for humanity.