Raphaël Huser wins Lambert award for EPFL research

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Raphaël Huser has been awarded the Lambert award for his work at EPFL.

The Johann Heinrich Lambert Award was established in 2013 by the Swiss Statistical Society. It recognizes the work of young statisticians under 35 years, and consists of a certificate and a prize of 1,000 Swiss Francs. It entitles the awardee to a plenary talk at the ‘Swiss Statistics Meeting', which was held this year in Bern.

The 2015 Lambert Award was given to Raphaël Huser, who is now at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Huser received his PhD in 2013 from EPFL, where he worked under the supervision of Anthony Davison.

His doctorate research, which the Lambert Award recognizes, focused on spatio-temporal models for predicting the outcomes of extreme rainfall events. He also won the EPFL Doctorate Award in 2014 for his outstanding thesis.

Huser is currently Assistant Professor in the Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering Division of KAUST, where he leads the Extreme Statistics group. His research focuses on the statistics of extreme events and risk assessment, with particular emphasis on environmental applications.

This is the second time that the Lambert Award has been given to an EPFL graduate: the 2013 award was given to Andrea Kraus for her work on stochastic epidemics.