Denis Larocque Member, GERAD share Professor, Department of Decision Sciences, HEC Montréal denis.larocque@hec.ca Phone: 514 340-6488 Research Axes Axis 1: Data valuation for decision making Research Applications Marketing (business intelligence, revenue management, recommendation systems) Health Publications Nov 2024 Comparison of random forest methods for conditional average treatment effect estimation with a continuous treatment Sami Tabib and Denis Larocque Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 33(11-12), 1952–1966, 2024 BibTeX reference Mar 2024 Model-based graph reinforcement learning for inductive traffic signal control François-Xavier Devailly, Denis Larocque, and Laurent Charlin IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, 5, 238–250, 2024 BibTeX reference Mar 2024 A theory of sales system shocks Nathaniel N. Hartmann, Nawar N. Chaker, Bruno Lussier, Denis Larocque, and Johanne Habel Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 52, 261–283, 2024 BibTeX reference 105 publications News Nomination at the Office of the PhD Program of HEC Montréal May 21, 2024 Congratulations to Denis Larocque for his nomination as Director of the PhD Program at HEC Montréal. This appointment is effective June 1st, 2024. Cansu Alakus wins the HEC Montréal Best Thesis award May 9, 2023 Congradulations to Cansu Alakus, supervised by Aurélie Labbe and Denis Larocque from HEC Montréal. She received the 2022 Best Thesis award for her thesis entitled "Essays on covariate-based canonical correlation estimation, prediction intervals, and covariance regression with random forests." Sabbatical leaves Jun 1, 2020 Michel Denault, HEC Montréal, from June 1st, 2020 to May 31, 2021 Guy Desaulniers, Polytechnique Montréal, from July 1st, 2020 to June 30, 2021 Jacques Desrosiers, HEC Montréal, from June 1st, 2020 to May 31, 2021 Denis Larocque, HEC Montréal, from June 1st, 2020 to May 31, 2021 Sébastien Le Digabel, Polytechnique Montréal, from August 30, 2020 to August 29, 2021 4 news Events Jan 27, 202111:00 AM — 12:00 PM Random forest as a weight-generating machine for local estimation and prediction “Meet a GERAD researcher!” seminar Denis Larocque – Professor, Department of Decision Sciences, HEC Montréal Online meeting Prizes and awards 2014 – 2023 Research Professorship in Data Science HEC Montréal Editorial Boards & Comittees Associate Editor, La revue canadienne de statistique, 2004-2018 Supervision Francesco Marando Master's degree Joël De Pedicepuis Master's degree Claire Henry Master's degree Walid Aloui Master's degree Cédric Barrette Master's degree Sarah Bérubé Master's degree Balkissa Touré Master's degree Coralie Gilbert Master's degree Maxime Trudel Master's degree All supervisions (220)