Christiane Lemieux

After obtaining her Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor Pierre L'Ecuyer at the University of Montreal, Christiane Lemieux spent the first six months of 2000 as a postdoctoral scholar in the statistics department at Stanford University, where she worked under the supervision of Professor Art B. Owen. In July 2000, she joined the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Calgary as an Assistant Professor, where she also held a joint appointment with the Department of Computer Science. She joined the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science in Waterloo as an Associate Professor in July 2006.

Christiane is interested in quasi-Monte Carlo methods and their applications. These methods can be thought of as deterministic versions of the well-known and highly used Monte Carlo method. They are designed to improve upon the performance of Monte Carlo by replacing random sampling by a more uniform sampling mechanism based on low-discrepancy point sets. A major goal of Professor Lemieux's research is to improve the applicability of quasi-Monte Carlo methods to a wide variety of practical problems.