extreme-value theory

Simon Nik

Simon Nik

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Statistics

Statistics of extremes extreme-value theory stochastic partial differential equations discrete time series

Simon obtained his PhD in 2024 from Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg, Germany, with a thesis entitled " Stochastic modeling and statistical analyses of non-negative data and times series". He is now a postdoctoral researcher at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), working in the XSTAT group under Prof. Raphaël Huser's supervision. Education and Early Career Simon obtained his PhD in 2024 from Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg, Germany. He joined KAUST as a postdoc in December 2024. Research interests Simon's current research interests focus primarily on extreme

Matheus B. Guerrero

Ph.D. Student, Statistics

extSTAT Research Group Time Series extreme-value theory

Matheus was a Ph.D. student in Statistics at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), doing research under the joint supervision of Prof. Raphaël Huser and Prof. Hernando Ombao. Matheus successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled " Modeling and Inference for Multivariate Time Series, with Applications to Integer-Valued Processes and Nonstationary Extreme Data" on April 4th, 2023; see his PhD thesis here. His PhD committee was composed of Professors Raphaël Huser (chair), Prof. Hernando Ombao (co-chair), Miguel de Carvalho (external examiner from the University of