Data Science
I am a professor because I see education as a mission. To foster
education, I am eager to trying a lot of what our technological world is
offering to us - even though I often fail!
I have introduced serious games in my teaching starting in 2003 with
the Chips War Game at Middlebury College. I have introduced R in my
teaching also in the early 2000s at Midd. I have also promoted open
source software such as Gretl, Octave and Scilab as substitutes to
well-known commercial suites.
I have developed online books, with true interaction. Students can
code directly in the online book. Pretty neat as Hans Rosling would
say!
The Mondo project was designed to reverse the wy students would
interact with data.
My courses are all coded in R and are organized around
projects and experiential
learning.
My presentations are interactive and user-friendly.
My first experience with online asynchronous courses was in the late
1990s while designing one of the first online courses for an education
startup.
With quantum simulations, I design serious games helping students
taking ownership of data science techniques.
See my R nano courses here
and API tutos here.
Honors and Awards
- Winning team of the Harvard Business Analytics Program’s OPDSM
simulation, 2020
- Winner of the 2015 Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting Best
Poster Award presented by Guillaume Digoin and Nathalie de
Marcellis-Warin
- Finance Montréal Forum Fintech Competition, 2015, “A Tool for Social
Media Analysis of Firms’ Reputations”, Academic supervisor of the winner
Guillaume Digoin, see here for further information
- Finance Montréal Forum Fintech Competition, 2014, “A Tool to Study
Financial Conversations on Twitter”, Academic supervisor of the winner
William Sanger, see here for further information
- Finance Montréal Forum Fintech Competition, 2013, “A Tool for an NLP
Analysis of Firms’ Annual Reports”, Academic supervisor of the winning
team: William Sanger (presenter), Bertrand Nembot and Antoine Troadec,
see here for further information
- Laureate of the best teacher award, Polytechnique Montreal – Gala
Meritas Award, 2013
- Finalist of the best teacher award, Polytechnique Montreal – Gala
Meritas Award, 2012
- Laureate of the best teacher award, Polytechnique Montreal – Gala
Meritas Award, 2011
- Best special issue of International Journal of Economics and
Business Research titled “The Euro at 10”,B&ESI Prize (Business and
Economics Society International), 2010
- Laureate of the best teacher award, Middlebury College – Marjorie
Lamberti Faculty Appreciation Award, 2009
- Finalist of the best teacher award, Middlebury College – Marjorie
Lamberti Faculty Appreciation Award, 2006
- Finalist for the best PhD dissertation from the Paris Universities’
Chancellery, Gaetan Pirou Prize in Economic and Management Sciences,
2001
- Laureate of the best PhD dissertation award, all disciplines,
University of Paris-II Assas, 2000
- Finalist of the best teacher award, HEC Paris – Vernimmen-Paribas
Faculty Appreciation Award, 1999
- Laureate of the best teacher award, HEC Paris – Vernimmen-Paribas
Faculty Appreciation Award, 1998
- Co-laureate of the prize for the book “Euro mode d’emploi”
(published by Litec, Paris, 1998), Afede Prize (French Association of
Corporate Economists), 1998