Marc G. Genton

Marc G. Genton
Born	September 1969 Geneva, Switzerland
Alma mater	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Occupation	Academic / Scientist
Awards	Georges Matheron Lectureship Award (2020) ISI Service Award (2019) Frank Wilcoxon Prize (2016) El-Shaarawi Award for Excellence from TIES (2010) Distinguished Achievement Award from ENVR-ASA (2010)
Scientific career
Fields	Statistical analysis Uncertainty quantification Spatio-temporal data analysis Data Science
Institutions	KAUST Texas A&M University University of Geneva North Carolina State University Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisors	Stephan Morgenthaler
Website	stsds.kaust.edu.sa

Marc G. Genton, (born September 1969 in Geneva, Switzerland) is currently a Distinguished Professor of Statistics with the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. He is known as a specialist in Spatio-Temporal Statistics, Data Science and their applications in geophysics, climate science, and marine science. The International Association for Mathematical Geosciences awarded him the Georges Matheron Lectureship in 2020. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (2007), Elected member to the International Statistical Institute (2008), Fellow member of the Royal Statistical Society (2009), Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2010), and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012).

Education

• Ph.D., Statistics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, 1996
• M.Sc., Applied Mathematics Teaching, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, 1994
• B.Sc., Engineer in Applied Mathematics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, 1992

See also

• International Association for Mathematical Geosciences

External links

• Marc G. Genton's page at KAUST
• Marc G. Genton publications indexed by Google Scholar