Olga Klopp

 I joined ESSEC Business School as an Associate Professor in 2017 and was promoted to Full Professor in 2023. Since 2018, I have also served as Academic Director of the ESSEC–CentraleSupélec and ESSEC–ENSAE double-degree programmes. Before joining ESSEC, I held academic positions at Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, Université Paris Dauphine, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

My research lies at the intersection of mathematical statistics and machine learning. I develop statistical methods for extracting reliable information from high-dimensional, sparse, incomplete, low-rank, or complex network-structured data. My main research interests include nonparametric estimation, high-dimensional inference, sparsity, learning theory, artificial neural networks, matrix completion, graphons, and statistical network models. A central objective of my work is to design theoretically grounded methods that are relevant to modern applications, including link prediction, community detection, document classification, epidemic monitoring, graph-based learning, and the analysis of interconnected dynamical systems.

I am also actively involved in editorial work and in the organisation of international scientific programmes. My editorial appointments include serving as Associate Editor of the Annals of Statistics and Computational Statistics & Data Analysis. I previously served as Associate Editor of Bernoulli. Earlier in my career, I contributed to the organisation of the Mexican Mathematical Olympiad and served on the jury of the International Mathematical Olympiad.

I received my Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches from Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense in 2016. I completed a postdoctoral fellowship at CREST and earned my PhD in Mathematics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). I also hold a Master’s degree in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, awarded with honours by Lomonosov Moscow State University. My distinctions include a Fulbright Scholar Award in 2024 and a Beaufort Fellowship at St John’s College, University of Cambridge, in 2023