Pascal Massart (born 23 January 1958) is a French Statistician. His work focuses on probability and statistics, notably the

Dvoretzky–Kiefer–Wolfowitz inequality In the theory of probability Probability is the branch of mathematics concerning numerical descriptions of how likely an Event (probability theory), event is to occur, or how likely it is that a proposition is true. The probability of an ...

, the Bousquet inequality, the concentration inequality, and the Efron-Stein inequality. With

Lucien Birgé Lucien Birgé (born 1950 in France) is a French mathematician. Education and career Lucien Birgé studied from 1970 to 1974 at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He then became an assistant at the Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris 6). ...

he worked on model selection. He received his Ph.D. in statistics from

Paris-Sud University Paris-Sud University (French: ''Université Paris-Sud''), also known as University of Paris — XI (or as Université d'Orsay before 1971), was a French research university distributed among several campuses in the southern suburbs of Paris, i ...

under Jean Bretagnolle. He has worked at the University of Paris-Sud and at the

University of Lyon The University of Lyon (french: Université de Lyon), located in Lyon and Saint-Étienne, France, is a center for higher education and research comprising 11 members and 24 associated institutions. The three main universities in this center are: ...

Honors and awards

He was awarded the

COPSS Presidents' Award The COPSS Presidents' Award is given annually by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies to a young statistician in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession of statistics. The COPSS Presidents' Award is generall ...

in 1998. He was awarded the Prix Pierre-Simon de Laplace from the

French Statistical Society The French Statistical Society (in French, ''Société française de statistique'', SFdS) is a French learned society founded in 1997Vie de la société', Journal de la société statistique de Paris, tome 138, n°1 (1997) pp. 3–19 specializing i ...

in 2007 alongside

Paul Deheuvels Paul Deheuvels (born 11 March 1948 in Istanbul) is a French statistician. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences. Career Paul Deheuvels is the son of René Deheuvels. Normalien (class of 1967), agrégé de mathématiques (1969), doc ...

. He was a lecturer at the

European Congress of Mathematics The European Congress of Mathematics (ECM) is the second largest international conference of the mathematics community, after the International Congresses of Mathematicians (ICM). The ECM are held every four years and are timed precisely betwee ...

in 2004 in Stockholm.

Books

* ''Concentration Inequalities: A Nonasymptotic Theory of Independence'' (2013) * ''Concentration Inequalities and Model Selection'' (2003)

References

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Massart, Pascal Living people French statisticians 1958 births Paris-Sud University alumni Academic staff of Paris-Sud University