Boris Beranger

Boris Beranger is a Senior Lecturer in Statistics and Data Science at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, UNSW Sydney. He is also a member of the UNSW Data Science Hub (uDASH) and previously served as an Associate Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS). His research spans theoretical and applied statistics, focusing on Extreme Value Theory (environmental, financial, and insurance applications) and Symbolic Data Analysis (complex/non-standard data structures).

• Education: PhD in Statistics (Université Pierre and Marie Curie & UNSW, 2016), MSc in Mathematics (Université Pierre and Marie Curie, 2011)

Research Trends are evident in:

• High-dimensional extremal dependence modeling (ExtremalDep package)
• Spatial extremes and max-stable processes
• Symbolic/histogram/interval-valued data analysis
• Composite likelihood and aggregated data methods
• Tail density estimation via kernel methods

Scientific Awards & Grants include:

• J.B. Douglas Award for Postgraduate Excellence (2014)
• Multiple ARC ACEMS Research Support Schemes
• Discovery Project DP220103269 ($405,000) for modeling real-world extremes

Supervision covers PhD, Masters, and Honours students in areas like Symbolic Data Analysis, Spatial Extremes, and Statistical Computing. He also co-organized workshops and served as Vice-President (2025-26) of the Statistical Society of Australia's NSW Branch.