Associate Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Université Laval

Anne-Sophie Charest is an Associate Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Université Laval. She completed a BA Honors in Probability and Statistics at McGill University, Montreal, and received a Master’s and Ph.D. in Statistics from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.

Her research focuses on protecting the confidentiality of statistical data, in particular in the context of a population survey or census. She is particularly interested in the generation and analysis of synthetic datasets as well as the measurement of disclosure risk, especially through differential confidentiality. She is a member of the Big Data Research Center at Université Laval.