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