Pierre L'Ecuyer
Member, GERAD

Professor, Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, Université de Montréal
Phone: 514 343-2143
Office 3361
Other titles and affiliations
Jan 2021 – Jul 2021
Visiting Professor, Google Research
Research Axes
Research Applications
Publications
Dec 2023
Confidence Intervals for Randomized Quasi- Monte Carlo Estimators
Pierre L'Ecuyer, Marvin K. Nakayama, A.B. Owen, and Bruno Tuffin
Winter Simulation Conference, San Antonio, USA, 2023
BibTeX reference
Dec 2022
Thuy Anh Ta, Tien Mai, Fabian Bastin, and Pierre L'Ecuyer
2022 Winter Simulation Conference, Singapore, 3087–3098, 2022
BibTeX reference
Dec 2022
Yijie Peng, Michael Fu, Jiaqiao Hu, Pierre L'Ecuyer, and Bruno Tuffin
Journal of Management Science and Engineering, 7(4), 550–577, 2022
BibTeX reference
News
Nov 14, 2023
Several GERAD researchers appear in a ranking of research citations updated in October 2023 and published on the Mendeley website, a search tool belonging to Elsevier, the Dutch scientific publisher.
May 24, 2023
Research.com, a leading academic platform for researchers, released in December 2022 the 2nd edition of its ranking of the top 1000 scientists in several fields.
Sep 1, 2022
Several GERAD researchers appear in a ranking of research citations updated in September 2022 and published on the Mendeley website, a search tool belonging to Elsevier, the Dutch scientific publisher.
Events
Dec 5, 201903:30 PM — 04:30 PM
GERAD seminar
Oualid Jouini – CentraleSupélec
Oualid Jouini – CentraleSupélec
Room 4488, André-Aisenstadt Building, Université de Montréal Campus
Mar 27, 201903:30 PM — 04:30 PM
“Meet a GERAD researcher!” seminar
Pierre L'Ecuyer – Professor, Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, Université de Montréal
Pierre L'Ecuyer – Professor, Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, Université de Montréal
Room 4488, André-Aisenstadt Building, Université de Montréal Campus
Oct 16, 201810:30 AM — 11:30 AM
GERAD seminar
Mamadou Thiongane – Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar
Mamadou Thiongane – Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar
Room 4488, André-Aisenstadt Building, Université de Montréal Campus
Prizes and awards
2011 – 2017
Canada Research Chair in Stochastic Simulation and Optimization
Chair
2021
Professor among the world’s most influential researchers in 2020 and in career
Mendeley (Elsevier)
2020
Lifetime Professional Achievement Award
INFORMS
2020
Professor among the world’s most influential researchers in 2019 and in career
Mendeley (Elsevier)
2019
Lifetime Achievement Award
Computer Science Canada (CS-Can)
2018
Outstanding Simulation Publication Award
INFORMS
2016
ACM SIGSIM Distinguished Contributions Award
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
2014
Award of Merit
Canadian Operational Research Society
2013 – 2018
Inria International Chair
INRIA
2011
2011 Distinguished Service Award
INFORMS
2009
Outstanding Simulation Publication Award
INFORMS
2006
Elected Fellow
INFORMS
2002
Urgel-Archambault Prize
Association francophone pour le savoir (ACFAS)
2000
Prix Jacob Wolfowitz
1999
Outstanding Simulation Publication Award
INFORMS
Editorial Boards & Comittees
- Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, 2004/8 - ...
- Associate Editor, International Transactions in Operational Research, 2007/5 - 2020/12
- Associate Editor, Statistics and Computing, 2003/6 - 2020/12
- Guest Editor for Special Issue, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, 2017/8 - 2019/7
Supervision
Gregory De Salaberry
Ph.D.
Mohamed El Derkaoui
Master's degree
Yocheved Darmon
Master's degree

Julien Keutchayan
Postdoctoral research
Tony Brière
Master's degree
Hugo Côté
Ph.D.
Rasoul Panahihassanbaroug
Master's degree
Florian Puchhammer
Postdoctoral research
Marc-Antoine Savard
Master's degree