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."

Michel Denault, HEC Montréal, from June 1st, 2020 to May 31, 2021

Guy Desaulniers, Polytechnique Montréal, from July 1st, 2020 to June 30, 2021

Jacques Desrosiers, HEC Montréal, from June 1st, 2020 to May 31, 2021

Denis Larocque, HEC Montréal, from June 1st, 2020 to May 31, 2021

Sébastien Le Digabel, Polytechnique Montréal, from August 30, 2020 to August 29, 2021

Three HEC Montréal students, members of GERAD, have been chosen to take part in the NSERC–CREATE Program on Machine Learning in Quantitative Finance and Business Analytics (Fin-ML FONCER).

- Audrey Leduc, MSc in gestion – business intelligence, supervised by Denis Larocque

- Rémi Galarneau-Vincent, PhD in administration – financial engineering, supervised by Geneviève Gauthier

- Ahmadreza Tavasoli, PhD in administration – financial engineering, supervised by Michèle Breton