Prof. Marc Genton
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi ArabiaMarc G. Genton is Professor of Statistics in the division of Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia. He received his Ph.D. in Statistics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, in 1996. He also holds a M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics teaching and a degree of Applied Mathematics Engineer from the same institution. Prof. Genton is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and elected member of the International Statistical Institute. In 2010, he received the El-Shaarawi award for excellence from the International Environmetrics Society and the Distinguished Achievement award from the Section on Statistics and the Environment of the American Statistical Association. Prof. Genton has published over 170 articles in scientific journals, has edited a book on multivariate skew-elliptical distributions, and has given over 280 presentations at conferences and universities worldwide. Prof. Genton's research interests include statistical analysis, modeling, prediction, and uncertainty quantification of spatio-temporal data, with applications in environmental and climate science, renewable energies, geophysics, and marine science.