Alexandre Bouchard-Côté

Alexandre’s main field of research is in statistical machine learning. He is interested in the mathematical side of the subject as well as in applications in linguistics and biology. On the methodology side, he is interested in Monte Carlo methods, graphical models, non-parametric Bayesian statistics, randomized algorithms and variational inference. His favorite applications, both in linguistics and biology, are related to phylogenetics. Some examples of recent studies include: automated reconstruction of proto-languages; cancer phylogenetics; population genetics; and pedigrees, tree and alignment inference.