During the night (Kyoto time), Samuel Stocksieker got the Best Actuarial PhD Thesis award for his thesis “Contribution of machine learning in modeling rare values and imbalanced data : applications in insurance” co-supervised with Denys Pommeret. Well deserved !

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Arthur Charpentier (December 10, 2025). Congrats Sam 🎉. Freakonometrics. Retrieved January 17, 2026 from https://doi.org/10.58079/15blu
Your work has such a positive impact on everyone