Denis Larocque Member, GERAD share Professor, Department of Decision Sciences, HEC Montréal denis.larocque@hec.ca Phone: 514 340-6488 Research Axes Axis 1: Data valuation for decision making Research Applications Marketing (business intelligence, revenue management, recommendation systems) Health Publications Mar 2026 Random forests for individual treatment effect estimation with the R package ITERF Sami Tabib and Denis Larocque Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 276, Paper no: 109187, 2026 BibTeX reference Oct 2025 Clustering and time series analyses of hybrid immunity to SARS-COV-2 using data from the BQC19 biobank Jean-Frédéric Boulianne, Denis Larocque, Simon Rousseau, and Delphine Bosson-Rieutort Scientific Reports, 15, Paper no: 34899 , 2025 BibTeX reference Apr 2025 Exploring Dental Caries and Associated Factors in 3‐Year‐Old Iranian Children: An Application of Random Forest for Zero‐Inflated Poisson Process Fatemeh Masaebi, Masoud Salehi, Zahra Ghorbani, Mehdi Azizmohammad Looha, Morteza Mohammadzadeh, Marzie Deghatipour, Denis Larocque, and Farid Zayeri Medical Journal of The Islamic Republic of Iran (MJIRI), 39(1), 441–446, 2025 BibTeX reference 108 publications News Nomination at the Office of the PhD Program of HEC Montréal May 21, 2024 Congratulations to Denis Larocque for his nomination as Director of the PhD Program at HEC Montréal. This appointment is effective June 1st, 2024. Cansu Alakus wins the HEC Montréal Best Thesis award May 9, 2023 Congradulations to Cansu Alakus, supervised by Aurélie Labbe and Denis Larocque from HEC Montréal. She received the 2022 Best Thesis award for her thesis entitled "Essays on covariate-based canonical correlation estimation, prediction intervals, and covariance regression with random forests." Events Jan 27, 202111:00 AM — 12:00 PM Random forest as a weight-generating machine for local estimation and prediction “Meet a GERAD researcher!” seminar Denis Larocque – Professor, Department of Decision Sciences, HEC Montréal Online meeting Prizes and awards 2014 – 2023 Research Professorship in Data Science HEC Montréal Editorial Boards & Comittees Associate Editor, La revue canadienne de statistique, 2004-2018 Supervision Mariam Fatima Coulibaly Master's degree Joël De Pedicepuis Master's degree Francesco Marando Master's degree Malek Fendri Master's degree Claire Henry Master's degree Walid Aloui Master's degree Cédric Barrette Master's degree Sarah Bérubé Master's degree Balkissa Touré Master's degree All supervisions (225)