Marc G. Genton

Marc G. Genton FRSS, (born in Switzerland) is currently a Distinguished Professor of statistics with the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. He is known as a specialist in Spatio-Temporal Statistics, Data Science and their applications in geophysics, climate science, and marine science. The International Association for Mathematical Geosciences awarded him the Georges Matheron Lectureship in 2020.

Education

• Ph.D., Statistics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, 1996
• M.Sc., Applied Mathematics Teaching, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, 1994
• B.Sc., Engineer in Applied Mathematics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, 1992