Serge Bédard Provost is a full professor in the Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences at the University of Western Ontario.
Provost obtained his in Mathematics and Statistics from McGill University in 1984 under the supervision of Arak Mathai.
Provost's research focuses on multivariate analysis, orthogonal series expansions, statistical modelling, complex and matrix-variate distribution theory, computational statistics and pure mathematics; for instance, they involve applications in biostatistics, financial modelling, actuarial science, operations research, time series analysis, data visualization, geometric probability, microarray experimentation, optics, life testing, environmental studies, thermodynamics, and machine learning.ÃÂ He has authored or co-authored approximately 140 articles. As well, he is the co-author of four books. Parenthetically, the website of the latest onehttps://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-95864-0 which is 'Open Access', has been accessed 90,000 times between October 2022 and December 2024.
Among other distinctions, Provost is a and . He is the recipient of three teaching award (, , ). Along with one of his doctoral students, he received the for an innovative paper on the distribution of the serial correlation coefficient. He became an .