Benoit Liquet
Professor of Mathematical and Computational Statistics
I develop statistical methods for complex and high-dimensional data — model selection, dimension reduction, survival analysis and Bayesian variable selection — and I now work at the interface between these methods and modern machine learning and deep learning.
103Articles
8Books
32h-index
13PhDs supervised
16R packages
Positions
- Since 2024
- Professor, University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour, France — member of LMAP, UMR CNRS 5142
- Since 2024
- Honorary Professor, Macquarie University, Sydney
- 2020 – 2024
- Professor of Mathematical and Computational Statistics, Macquarie University, Sydney
- 2015 – 2020
- Professor, University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour, France — member of LMAP, UMR CNRS 5142
- Since 2015
- Honorary Associate Professor, School of Mathematics & Physics, The University of Queensland
- 2013 – 2015
- Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland
Earlier positions (2000 – 2013)
- 2012 – 2013
- Senior Investigator Statistician, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge
- 2012 (Sept.)
- Sabbatical visiting researcher, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge
- 2011 – 2012
- Sabbatical visiting researcher, Queensland Facility for Advanced Bioinformatics, Brisbane
- 2011 (Oct.)
- Sabbatical visiting researcher, Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen
- 2007 – 2011
- Associate Professor, Bordeaux Segalen University — ISPED
- 2004 – 2007
- Associate Professor, University Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble
- 2003 – 2004
- Lecturer, Mathematics Department, University Montpellier II
- 2002 – 2003
- Lecturer, Mathematics Department, University Bordeaux I
- 2000 – 2002
- Assistant / Lecturer, Bordeaux Segalen University — ISPED
Administrative responsibilities
- From Sept. 2026
- Head of the Biology Discipline, Anglet campus, UPPA
- 2020 – 2027
- Elected member of the Laboratory Council, LMAP, UPPA
- Since 2021
- AMIES and INSMI industry partnerships representative for LMAP
- 2024 – 2025
- Director of Studies, First Year Biology of Organisms (L1), Anglet campus, UPPA
- 2021 – 2024
- Research Lead in Statistics, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Macquarie University
- 2020 – 2023
- Board member of the Faculty Promotion Committee (Level D), Faculty of Science & Engineering, Macquarie University
- 2018 – 2023
- Head of the Probability and Statistics team, LMAP, UPPA
Editorial and society roles
- Associate Editor of Biometrics (since 2022)
- Editor of the Journal of Statistical Software (since 2020)
- Elected board member, SMAI — French Society for Applied & Industrial Mathematics (since 2021)
- Elected board member, French Statistical Society (SFDS) (since 2025)
- Elected board member and Secretary of the MALIA group (Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence), French Statistical Society (since 2024)
Awards
- Lindley Prize (2018) — for innovative research in Bayesian statistics presented at an ISBA World Meeting and published in Bayesian Analysis
- RIPEC (C3) (2025) — Research award, University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour
- PEDR (2016, 2020) — scientific excellence award, University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour
- Scientific Excellence Award (2009) — University of Bordeaux II
Book
Mathematical Engineering of Deep Learning
With Sarat Moka and Yoni Nazarathy. Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Science Series, 2024. The full text and course material are freely available online.
Contact
- benoit.liquet@univ-pau.fr
- Phone
- +33 5 59 57 44 49
- Office
- Building 2, 2nd floor, room 517
- Address
- Collège STEE - Campus Côte Basque
1 allée du parc Montaury
64600 Anglet, France