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Vincent Runge, Assistant Professor of Statistics at Université d’Évry Paris-Saclay.

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Vincent Runge

Assistant Professor of Statistics · Université d’Évry Paris-Saclay · LaMME (CNRS UMR 8071)

My research focuses on change-point detection and efficient algorithms for structured data. I work on dynamic programming and pruning methods, extensions to non-Euclidean spaces, and computational geometry for time-series analysis.

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Current position

I have been an Assistant Professor in Statistics at Université d’Évry Paris-Saclay since September 2019. I am a member of the LaMME laboratory.

Research interests

  • Change-point detection, dynamic programming and functional pruning
  • Methods for complex data in Hadamard and CAT spaces
  • Computational geometry and time-series compression
  • Constrained and convex optimization
  • Topological Data Analysis

See the research overview and publications.

Supervision

  • Postdoc: Hugo Henneuse (July 2025–August 2026), with Charles Truong and Laurent Oudre. He is now an Assistant Professor at LaMME.
  • PhD: Nicolas Cecchi (since February 2025), co-directed with Charles Truong and Laurent Oudre.
  • PhD: Liudmila Pishchagina / Shabarshova (2021–2024), co-directed with Guillem Rigaill.
  • Internships:
    • 2026: Ikram Niari (L3 Bio-Info; 2-month), supervised with Lorenzo Dubois (PhD at MNHN); Yaroslav Kudrevytch (M1, 5-month), supervised with Hugo Henneuse (DATAIA scholarship).
    • 2025: Alexandre Combeau (M2, 6-month), Emmeline Bourget (M2, DATAIA scholarship, 6-month) and Séréna Pandzou (L2 SDV, 2-month), supervised with Doctor Julie Boudali.
    • 2024: Simon Querné (M2, 6-month).
    • 2023: Olha Pomomarenko (L3, 3-month).
    • 2022: Antonina Bondarchuk (L3, 4-month), Marko Kachaikin (L2, 2-month) and Kader Houssein (L2 SDV, 2-month).
    • 2021: Liudmila Pishchagina (M2, 6-month), Saâd Qriouet (M1, 5-month) and Pauline Spinga (L3 Bio-Info, 2-month).
    • 2020: Nicolas Deschamps de Boishebert (M1, 4-month), Jawad Boulafha (M1, 4-month), Mohammed Seddik (Master’s thesis)
    • 2018: Alexandre Schulz (M1, 4-month).

Selected talks and visits

  • Contemporary Challenges in Changepoint Detection Workshop, United Kingdom (April 2026).
  • Séminaire de Probabilités et Statistique, Université Côte d’Azur (February 2026).
  • Research visit and statistics Seminar, Lancaster University (December 2025).
  • Journées de Statistique, Marseille (June 2025).

I often take part in organizing events for the mathematics community; they are listed on the Events page.

Other recent talks and visits include SAMM at Sorbonne Université (October 2025), StatMathAppli (September 2025), a change-point meeting at Dauphine (July 2025), and the HCERES scientific presentation at LaMME (January 2025). Earlier presentations include the Paris seminar in statistics (2023), IMS (2022), an online seminar at Northern Arizona University (2021), and seminars at MAP5 and CMStatistics (2019–2020).

Supporting Ukrainian Mathematics Students

Since 2022, I have dedicated a significant part of my time to supporting Ukrainian mathematics students in obtaining scholarships, in collaboration with the FMJH through the FMJHcare program and the FSMP. So far, we have helped about 40 students with different programs. I also advise them on finding internships, improving their CVs and motivation letters, and navigating the complex French higher-education system.

🎺 The UMD 2026 conference at IHP and the UMD 2025 day in Évry are examples of this ongoing effort.

Mathematics in Ukraine: continuing traditions

As a side event of the UMD 2026 conference, I proposed and coordinated an exhibition created by my colleagues in Ukraine. It was displayed in the entrance hall of the Henri Poincaré Institute from May to October 2026.

The contributors are:

  • Iryna Banakh, Institute for Applied Problems of Mechanics and Mathematics (Lviv), National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
  • Taras Banakh, Viktoriia Brydun, Olena Hryniv, Yaroslav Prytula, and Mykhailo Zarichnyi, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.

Conception & Graphic Design: Wonjin Park

The exhibition panels are available online in this PDF file. The Poincaré Institute can send the panels to other institutions in France or abroad upon request.

⚠️ Ukrainian students in mathematics are welcome to contact me for advice and support (one easy task is to connect them with other Ukrainian students in a similar situation).

It’s a great achievement to see that many of these students I welcomed in 2022 are now pursuing a PhD in France or are pursuing a successful career in the industry. Here is a list of some of the PhDs:

  • Antonina Bondarchuk — PhD started in 2023 at CEA LIST, Université Paris-Saclay; cryptography and fully homomorphic encryption (FHE).
  • Anna Bahrii — PhD started in 2024 at LaMME, Université Paris-Saclay; probability and stochastic analysis.
  • Kostyantyn Krutoy — PhD started in 2024 at IMJ-PRG, Université Paris Cité; coarse geometry, ample groupoids, and C*-algebras/operator algebras.
  • Filipp Buryak — PhD started in 2024 at IMJ-PRG, Université Paris Cité; algebraic topology, operads, and representation stability.
  • Dmytro Husan — PhD started in 2026 at LaMME, Université Paris-Saclay; stochastic analysis.
  • Heorhii Vorobiov — PhD started in 2026 at LaMME, Université Paris-Saclay; PDEs and the Navier–Stokes equations.
  • Olena Verbytska — PhD started in 2026 at the PhyMedExp Institute in Montpellier; machine learning and AI.
  • Marko Kachaikin — PhD started in 2026 in Marseille; random geometry and PDEs.

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