Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

Inria International Labs

International Laboratory for Research in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics

Associate Team involved in the International Lab:

SIMERG2E

• Title: Statistical Inference for the Management of Extreme Risks, Genetics and Global Epidemiology

• International Partner:

  • UGB (Senegal) - Abdou Kâ Diongue

• Start year: 2018

• See also: http://mistis.inrialpes.fr/simerge

• SIMERG2E is built on the same two research themes as SIMERGE, with some adaptations to new applications: 1) Spatial extremes, application to management of extreme risks. We address the definition of new risk measures, the study of their properties in case of extreme events and their estimation from data and covariate information. Our goal is to obtain estimators accounting for possible variability, both in terms of space and time, which is of prime importance in many hydrological, agricultural and energy contexts. 2) Classification, application to genetics and global epidemiology. We address the challenge to build statistical models in order to test association between diseases and human host genetics in a context of genome-wide screening. Adequate models should allow to handle complexity in genomic data (correlation between genetic markers, high dimensionality) and additional statistical issues present in data collected from a family-based longitudinal survey (non-independence between individuals due to familial relationship and non-independence within individuals due to repeated measurements on a same person over time).

Inria International Partners

Informal International Partners

The context of our research is also the collaboration between mistis and a number of international partners such as the statistics department of University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, USA, the statistics department of McGill University in Montreal, Canada, Université Gaston Berger in Senegal and Universities of Melbourne and Brisbane in Australia.

The main active international collaborations in 2018 are with:

• G. Stupfler, Nottingham University, UK.

• K. Qin, H. Nguyen and Kerrie Mengersen, D. Wraith resp. from Swinburne University and La Trobe university in Melbourne, Australia and Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia.

• E. Deme and S. Sylla from Gaston Berger university and IRD in Senegal.

• M. Houle from National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan.

• N. Wang and C-C. Tu from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.

• R. Steele, from McGill university, Montreal, Canada.

• Guillaume Kon Kam King, Stefano Favaro, Pierpaolo De Blasi, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin, Italy.

• Igor Prünster, Antonio Lijoi, and Riccardo Corradin Bocconi University, Milan, Italy.

• Bernardo Nipoti, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

• Yeh Whye Teh, Oxford University and DeepMind, UK.

• Stephen Walker, University of Texas at Austin, USA.