Short Bio
I was born in England, but grew up mostly in France and Switzerland. I am a Swiss citizen of Persian heritage.
I speak French (native), English (fluent), German (good level), Spanish (good level), Italian (intermediate) and Farsi (spoken, not written).
I have done my BSc + MSc in mathematics at EPFL, followed by a Ph.D. in mathematical statistics. After that, I spent 3 years at the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge, where I worked with Sir John Aston. In September 2017, I joined the Department of Statistics at the University of Warwick as a tenure-track assistant professor. In August 2021, I joined the Research Institute for Statistics and Information Science at the Geneva School of Economics and Management of the University of Geneva as a tenured Maître d’Enseignement et de Recherche (equivalent to a Senior Lecturer in the UK).
My research is in the field of functional data analysis, which deals with statistics for data that are curves, images, or high-dimensional objects with some kind of smoothness.
Outside of research, I have various interests. I love some jazz musicians, such as Brad Mehldau, Ibrahim Maalouf, and Marc Perrenoud, enjoy experimenting with cooking, am a performer of improvised theater (in the CatCave9 and Unscripted Nyon troupes), and enjoy the subtleties of British English (as exemplified by Yes, Prime Minister).