Société Française de Statistique French Statistical Society SFdS

The Executive Committee

• President: Christophe Biernacki, Inria
• Vice President: Christine Keribin, University of Paris Saclay
• Vice President: Clémentine Prieur, University of Grenoble Alpes
• Secretary: Antoine Godichon-Baggioni, Sorbonne University - LPSM
• Assistant Secretary: Esterina Masiello, Université Lyon 1 - ISFA
• Treasurer: Vincent Vandewalle, University Côté d’Azur  
• Assistant Treasurer: Madalina Olteanu, CEREMADE - Université Paris Dauphine - PSL

About  SFdS

Recognized association of public utility, the French Statistical Society (SFdS) aims to bring together all researchers, engineers, teachers, and users of statistics, whatever the nature of their functions and the place where they exercise them: it thus constitutes a privileged place of meetings, exchanges, and reflections.

The SFdS is a learned society founded in 1997, specialized in statistics, whose mission is to promote the use of statistics and its understanding and to favor its methodological developments. To this end, it facilitates exchanges between statisticians from administrations, companies or teaching or research establishments through a set of actions that are presented on this site. The SFdS was recognized as a public utility by decree of December 3, 1998.

News from the Society

At the initiative of Société Française de Statistique (SFdS), three scholarly societies, SMAI, SMF, and SFdS held a workshop on Nov 18, 2025 at the IHP on the use of AI to advance mathematics. The event, designed to familiarize mathematicians with the new capabilities of AI agents and their connection to formal language, was a clear success. It brought together more than 120 participants, featured state-of-the-art presentations, and sparked particularly fruitful discussions. One conclusion stood out: we urgently need to start thinking about how these new generative technologies will transform our discipline and our professions.