William Laplante
PhD Student @ UCL

I’m a first-year PhD student at University College London (UCL) and part of the Fundamentals of Statistical Machine Learning group.
I’m supervised by François-Xavier Briol as well as Andrew Duncan and Jeremias Knoblauch. My studies are co-funded by UCL’s Centre for Doctoral Training in Data-Intensive Science, the Department of Statistical Science at UCL, and the Alan Turing Institute’s Program for Fundamental Research in Data Science and AI.
Before starting my PhD, I was part of the Financial Engineering & Modelling team at Deloitte, and worked in the Global Securities Funding division (previously Global Equity Derivatives) 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.
News
May 01, 2025 | Collaborated with The Guardian through UCL’s Data Intensive Science PhD program to improve their editorial style guide checker with LLMs. |
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Apr 07, 2025 | Presenting a session with discussion at The Bayesian Young Statisticians Meeting (BAYSM) 2025. |
Mar 07, 2025 | Presenting Robust and Conjugate Spatio-Temporal Gaussian Processes at the Oxford Man Institute of Quantitative Finance. |
Jan 31, 2025 | Finished writing my first paper, Robust and Conjugate Spatio-Temporal Gaussian Processes! |
Oct 01, 2024 | Started my PhD at UCL. |