Mathieu Boudreault, Professor at UQAM, and Mélina Mailhot, Professor at Concordia University, received the 2023 Variance Prize for the best article. The article "Random Forests for Wildfire Insurance Applications" is co-authored by Roba Bairakdar, Mathieu Boudreault, and Melina Mailhot. Their work integrates cutting-edge machine learning methods to improve the assessment of wildfire risks.