Philippe Goulet Coulombe receives the Prix Relève en recherche 2024-2025. Professor of economics at ESG UQAM, he is renowned for his research in macroeconomic modeling and artificial intelligence.
Vice-Décanat à la recherche at ESG UQAM is pleased to present the Prix Relève en recherche for the year 2024-2025 to Philippe Goulet Coulombe, Professor in the Department of Economics at ESG UQAM since 2021 and Research Associate at the Chaire en macroéconomie et prévisions headed by Professors Alain Guay and Dalibor Stevanovic (Economics). He will be associate editor of the International Journal of Forecasting from autumn 2024.
Philippe Goulet Coulombe holds a PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a master's degree from Queen's University, and completed his Bac at Université Laval. A researcher renowned for developing cutting-edge macroeconomic modeling techniques, he is leading several projects at the intersection of artificial intelligence and econometrics. He also conducts research in finance and the statistical modeling of climate change.
He has given over 60 presentations in 15 countries - notably at academic conferences and central banks. He has produced some 20 research papers, including 10 articles published in leading scientific journals, including the Journal of Econometrics, the Journal of Applied Econometrics and the International Journal of Forecasting. He holds several research grants and fellowships, including those from the FQSRC (2022) and SSHRC (2024). He is a regular commentator on economic issues in the media, on television, in print and on radio.
Over the next few years, he and his team will be pursuing an agenda that combines cutting-edge research with the practical deployment of algorithms developed using a “machine learning” approach. This will involve simultaneously building the predictive model and the economic variables used directly from granular data (e.g. pixels in an image). He will also focus on the interpretability and transparency of the models, essential elements for their practical use.
In his spare time, Philippe Goulet Coulombe is also an author, composer and singer-guitarist with the musical group Décorum, for whom he produced two albums, in 2022 and 2024.
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Source: Nouvelles ESG UQAM