I am a Gibbs Assistant Professor at Yale university.
Prior to that, I was a postdoctoral researcher in A. Munk's group in Göttingen (2021-2025) adn I obtained my PhD at UCLouvain in 2021 working under the supervision of C. Heuchenne and J. Segers.
Optimal transport theory : statistical and machine learning applications
Dependence measures and copula theory
Gaussian processes and (super) concentration of measure
Statistical problems from the field of Biophysical imaging
Manifold learning and diffusions
In December 2022, I had the honor of being the laureate of the Annual Contest of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium for some work done with J. Segers pertaining to statistical decision theory and transport of measure (More information ).
Cycling
Bouldering
Hiking
Gymnastics (formerly at a competition level)
French (mother tongue)
English (fluent)
German (fluent)
Dutch (intermediate)
mordantgilles[at]gmail[dot]com