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Ayman Chit

Ayman Chit currently serves as a Vice President at Sanofi Vaccines, a leading pharmaceutical company. He also holds the position of Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto's Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy. With extensive expertise in the field, Chit leads teams of researchers and medical experts at Sanofi, driving the development of vaccines that align with global healthcare needs. At the University of Toronto, Chit actively collaborates with faculty members on research and teaching. Additionally, he plays a vital role in mentoring and advising graduate students, nurturing the next generation of scientific leaders and innovators.

Chit's primary research focus revolves around vaccine development and assessment. He is particularly interested in understanding the impact and burden of infectious diseases, and how to develop and deploy vaccines to counter this burden. Furthermore, his research extends to the study of the economics and administration of healthcare systems and the economics of drug and vaccine development and use. 

Richard Kenyon

Richard Kenyon is the Erastus L. DeForest Professor of Mathematics at Yale University. His central mathematical contributions are in statistical mechanics and geometric probability. He established the first rigorous results on the dimer model, opening the door to recent spectacular advances in the Schramm–Loewner evolution theory. In most recent work, he introduced new homotopic invariants of random structures on graphs, establishing an unforeseen connection between probability and representation theory.

Javad Mashreghi

Javad Mashreghi is a Canadian mathematician and author working in the fields of functional analysis, operator theory and complex analysis. In particular, he is known for his contributions to analytic function spaces and operators acting on them. Mashreghi was the 35th President of the Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS), is a Lifetime Fellow of CMS, and works as Professeur Titulaire at Université Laval. He is immensely involved in various aspects of North America's mathematical community, having served on numerous editorials, administrative and selection committees across Canada and the U.S. (CMS, AMS, Fields Institute, CRM, NSERC, NSF). He is the Editor-In-Chief of the Canadian Mathematical Bulletin (2020–2025) and Concrete Operators (2018–2022), and an Associate Editor of the Proceedings of The American Mathematical Society (2020–2024). More recently, he became a Canada Research Chair in function spaces and a Fulbright Research Chair at Vanderbilt University.

Messoud Efendiev

Messoud Efendiev is a world-renowned mathematical-biologist, leading scientist at the Helmoth Research Centre in Munich, member of the editorial boards of 10 international scientific periodicals, editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Biomathematics and Biostatistics, and author of over 160 scientific works and eight scientific monographs. He was James D. Murray distinguished professor at the University of Waterloo, York University, University of Toronto and Fields Institute, and is currently a distinguished professor at Western Caspian University.

Sylvia Serfaty

Sylvia Serfaty is Silver Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. Prior to this she has been Professor at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (currently Sorbonne Université) at the Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, and has held various appointments at the Courant Institute of NYU. She earned her BS and MS in Mathematics from the École Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1995, and her PhD from Université Paris Sud in 1999. She works in calculus of variations, nonlinear partial differential equations, and mathematical physics. A large part of her work has focused on analyzing vortices in the Ginzburg-Landau model of superconductivity and on the statistical mechanics of systems of points with Coulomb-type repulsion.

Serfaty was the recipient of the European Mathematical Society prize in 2004, the Henri Poincaré prize in 2012 and the Mergier-Bourdeix Prize of the Académie des Sciences de Paris in 2013, and was a plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2018. She was also named a Simons investigator in 2018 and elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.

Christian Genest

Christian Genest a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McGill University, where he holds a Canada Research Chair. He is one of the leading statisticians in Canada, whose work has had dual impact on both theory and real-world applications. He is best known for his contributions to multivariate analysis and was a pioneer in the expansive use of copula models in science. Together with a few close collaborators, he combined nonparametric methods and the asymptotic theory of empirical processes to design a broad array of rank-based inference tools for building, selecting, fitting, and validating stochastic models within this class. Additionally, Genest has contributed to group decision making, prioritization techniques, multivariate extreme-value theory and, most recently, to space-time modelling of rare events in environmental science.

He is a recipient of the Statistical Society of Canada's Gold Medal for Research and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2015. Recently, Genest was awarded the 2023 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize.