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Cristina Butucea is a Full Professor of Statistics at ENSAE, Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris), and a Permanent Member of CREST (Center for Research in Economics and Statistics). She specializes in nonparametric and high-dimensional mathematical statistics, with research interests spanning inverse problems, quantum statistics, privacy of data, and machine learning. Her academic career includes faculty positions at several prestigious French institutions including Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée and Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille.
Her educational background includes a post-doc at Humboldt University, Berlin (1998-1999), followed by an Assistant Professor position at Université Paris Nanterre (1999-2007). She was promoted to Professor at Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille 1 (2007-2010), then at Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée (2010-2016), and currently holds her position at ENSAE, IP Paris (2016-present).
Professor Butucea's research focuses on theoretical statistics with applications in modern data science challenges. Her work on differential privacy has established fundamental limits and optimal procedures for statistical estimation under privacy constraints. She has made significant contributions to quantum statistics, particularly in quantum state estimation. Her research on high-dimensional statistics addresses variable selection, sparse structures, and nonparametric estimation in complex settings. She has also contributed to the theory of inverse problems and the analysis of locally stationary processes.
Her recent publications demonstrate a strong focus on the intersection of statistics with privacy concerns, quantum information, and high-dimensional data analysis. She has published in top statistical journals including Annals of Statistics, Bernoulli, and Electronic Journal of Statistics. Her work often addresses fundamental questions about optimal rates of convergence, phase transitions in estimation problems, and the theoretical limits of statistical procedures under various constraints.
- Nominated IMS Fellow in 2019
- CO-organizer of the Seminar of Statistics CREST-CMAP
- Associate Editor of ALEA (Latin American Journal of Probability and Mathematical Statistics)
- Organizer of several conferences in mathematical statistics and machine learning (Fréjus 2018, Luminy 2019, 2020, Oberwolfach 2021)
Professor Butucea has received multiple research grants including ANR HIDITSA (2017-2021), ANR SPADRO (2013-2017), and ANR DIONISOS (2012-2016). She was the Principal Investigator of an ANR project on "Statistics for quantum physics" (2007-2008). She has also been awarded research stays at CIRM Luminy and MFO Oberwolfach.
She is actively involved in the academic community as a member of the IMS (Institute of Mathematical Statistics) and the Bernoulli Society. She is also a member of the Institut des Actuaires as an Actuary ISUP.
