William Laplante

I’m an incoming first-year PhD student at University College London (UCL) working on Statistical Machine Learning and part of the Fundamentals of Statistical Machine Learning group. My studies are co-funded by the Alan Turing Institute’s foundational AI program, the Centre for Doctoral Training in Data-Intensive Science, and the Statistical Science Department of UCL.

Before starting my PhD, I was part of the Financial Engineering & Modelling team at Deloitte and worked in the Global Securities Funding (previously Global Equity Derivatives) team at National Bank Financial. I completed a Master’s degree in Statistics at the University of British Columbia and graduated from the Joint Honours in Mathematics and Physics program at McGill University for my undergraduate studies.