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2025 CRM-SSC Prize lecture – Linglong Kong

Friday, October 17, 2025 at 3:30pm

Université de Montréal, CRM
Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 6th floor, room 6214

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To Professor Linglong Kong, for his fundamental contributions to science and to the understanding of complex data, through advances in the fields of quantile regression, high dimensional statistics, multivariate analysis, statistical machine learning, neurological applications of statistics, personalized medicine and distributional reinforcement learning. As well, for outstanding mentorship and editorial service..

Professor Linglong Kong is an internationally recognized researcher whose work has significantly advanced statistical machine learning and optimization. His research focuses on neuroimaging data analysis, hierarchical modeling, matrix factorization, and distributional reinforcement learning. He is also a pioneer in privacy-preserving methods, including differential privacy on Riemannian manifolds. As a Canada Research Chair in Statistical Learning and a CIFAR AI Chair, he is affiliated with the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute. His contributions aim to make artificial intelligence more trustworthy, fair, and respectful of sensitive data.

About the CRM-SSC Prize

The CRM-SSC Prize in Statistics recognizes a statistical scientist’s excellence and accomplishments in research during the first fifteen years after earning his/her doctorate (or equivalent degree). It is awarded annually by the Centre de recherches mathématiques and the SSC.

Source: Statistical Society of Canada

Published On: 6 October 2025
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