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David Ardia, Associate Professor in the Department of Decision Sciences, received the Best Paper Award for 2018-2019 from the International Journal of Forecasting.
The article is entitled Questioning the news about economic growth: Sparse forecasting using thousands of news-based sentiment values. It was co-authored with Kris Boudt, Professor at Ghent University, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and Keven Bluteau, Postdoctoral Researcher at Ghent University and HEC Montréal.
Based on a very competitive process, the selection of the winning entry was made from among all the articles published in the journal during 2018 and 2019.
The last issue of the Newsletter is now available. Enjoy!
- Spotlights on ... - A project finalist for the ADRIQ Award
- *Collaborations * - GERAD, a partner to the first Edge Intelligence Workshop
- *Actions and interactions * - Best practices when writing a scientific paper in decision science according to Gilbert Laporte
- Who are they? - Yichuan Ding, Mélina Mailhot
- Where are they now? - Masoud Chitsaz, Elias Khalil, Nahid Masoudi
- Postdoctoral fellows - Tarik Bahraoui, Simon Belieres, Julien Fageot, Sriram Sankaranarayanan
Events
James Richard Forbes – Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Canada
Ekaterina Smirnova – University of Wyoming, United States
Yi Yang – McGill University, Canada
Guy Laliberté – Odotech, Canada
Christophe Lecante – Tecknowmetrix, France