I am the Al-Khawarizmi Distinguished Professor of Statistics at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) where I lead the Spatio-Temporal Statistics and Data Science (STSDS) research group.
My research interests include spatio-temporal statistics, computational statistics, HPC, and skewed non-Gaussian multivariate distributions, with applications in Environmental and Climate Sciences, as well as renewable energy.
News
- 2024.11: KAUST team wins ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling
- 2024.07: KAUST team selected as ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling finalists
Education
- 1996, Ph.D. in Statistics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
- 1994, Certificate in Applied Mathematics Teaching, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
- 1992, Degree in Applied Mathematics Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Academic Positions
- 2012-20xx, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
- 2009-2012, Texas A&M University (TAMU), College Station, USA
- 2006-2009, University of Geneva (UNIGE), Geneva, Switzerland
- 2004-2006, Texas A&M University (TAMU), College Station, USA
- 2000-2004, North Carolina State University (NCSU), Raleigh, USA
- 1997-2000, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, USA
Publications
Books
- Arellano-Valle, R. B., and Genton, M. G. (2026), Multivariate Statistics Beyond Normality, Chapman & Hall/CRC, in preparation
- Genton, M. G. (2004), Skew-Elliptical Distributions and Their Applications: A Journey Beyond Normality, Edited Volume, Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL, 416 pp
Honors and Awards
- 2024 ACM Gordon Bell Prize in Climate Modeling
- 2024 Gordon Bell Prize in Climate Modeling finalist for exascale climate emulator at SC24
- 2024 Don Owen Award from the American Statistical Association’s San Antonio Chapter
- 2023 Barnett Award from the Royal Statistical Society, UK
- 2022 Gordon Bell Prize finalist for ExaGeoStat software at SC22
- 2020 Georges Matheron Lecturer Award of the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences
- 2019 Service Award from the International Statistical Institute (ISI) for serving as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Stat (Jan. 2015 - Dec. 2017)
- 2018 JRSS-A paper read before the Royal Statistical Society, UK
- 2018 Award for Best 2016 Paper in JABES
- 2017 Wilcoxon Award for Best Applications Paper in Technometrics
- 2012 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2011 ADVANCE Distinguished Lecture from Kansas State University, USA
- 2010 Distinguished Achievement Award from the Section on Statistics and the Environment of the American Statistical Association
- 2010 El-Shaarawi Award for Excellence from the International Environmetrics Society
- 2010 Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- 2009 Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society
- 2008 Elected to the International Statistical Institute
- 2007 Fellow of the American Statistical Association