I am a PhD candidate at STATQAM (UQAM). I recently submitted my thesis and expect to defend it in a few months. Before that, I studied philosophy at the Faculté de philosophie at Université Laval and completed a B.Sc. in Mathematics with a Statistics concentration at UQAM.
During my PhD, I developed software and methodology for modeling and analyzing genomic data using the coalescent process, under the supervision of Fabrice Larribe. For this, I mainly used tools from graph theory, circuit theory, and copula theory. Implementation was done in the Julia programming language. Much of the items listed on page Software are related to my research, directly or indirectly.
I am a long-time Linux user and free/open source software enthusiast. I began my journey with Debian 3 "Woody" back in the early 2000s, and haven't stopped since. Nowadays, one of my hobbies is giving old machines a second life as nodes in a Kubernetes cluster, which I use, among other things, to host this website as well as relays in various decentralized networks
Contact
The best ways to reach me are email and XMPP. In both cases, the address is the same: pf@patrickfournier.ca.