I am a PhD graduate from UQAM, where I recently defended a thesis on ancestral recombination graph reconstruction and probabilistic phenotype modeling. My academic background also includes a degree in philosophy from the Faculté de philosophie at Université Laval and a B.Sc. in Mathematics with a concentration in Statistics from UQAM.
During my PhD under the supervision of Fabrice Larribe in the STATQAM research group, I developed software and methodology for modeling and analyzing genomic data using the coalescent process. My work leverages tools from graph theory, circuit theory, and copula theory implemented in the Julia programming language. Many of the projects listed on the Software page are directly or indirectly related to my research.
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 various decentralized networks relays
Contact
The best ways to reach me are email and federated XMPP. In both cases, the address is the same: pf@patrickfournier.ca.