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Biography
Marc G. Genton is a Distinguished Professor of Statistics at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia. He received the Ph.D. degree in Statistics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) in 1996. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS),
and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI). His research interests include statistical analysis, flexible modeling, prediction, and uncertainty quantification of spatio-temporal data, with applications in environmental and climate science, as well as renewable energies. He is promoting the ExaGeoStat project at KAUST to bridge geospatial statistics and HPC at exascale. Among several awards, he has received the 2020 Georges Matheron Lectureship Award from the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG).
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