Candidate for: Executive editor, At-large member
BIO
I am a PhD student at Ghent University, more precisely at the Foundations Lab for imprecise probabilities, in the sixth and final year of my PhD. Most of my research has been on continuous-time Markov chains, and it is this work that I am currently forging into a single coherent narrative for my dissertation. More bi(bli)ographical information is available on my website.
STATEMENT
I became acquainted with SIPTA at my first ISIPTA conference, back in 2015. Since then, I have not missed an ISIPTA conference, and I have also attended two SIPTA Summer Schools and participated in several editions of WPMSIIP. Two years ago, I got the chance to experience what it means to be on the organizing side of things for a SIPTA event: I was a member of the local organizing committee for the previous edition of ISIPTA, which took place in Ghent. One of my duties as a member of the local organizing committee of ISIPTA 2019 was to set-up and manage the conference website.
I liked working on the website of ISIPTA 2019, so I did not have to hesitate when I was asked to participate in a collective effort to modernise the SIPTA website—you should be able to judge the fruits of our labour soon. My current involvement with the SIPTA website is my main reason for standing for the office of Executive Editor (and that of at-large member). If elected, I will gladly do my part to keep the SIPTA website in pristine shape and up to date. The Executive Editor is also responsible for the SIPTA mailing list, and I think it would be an improvement to implement categories (e.g., SIPTA events, discussion, non-SIPTA events, ...), and then let each subscriber choose which categories (s)he wants to subscribe to.
Besides this commitment to the website and the mailing list, I hope to (i) represent the voice of the not-so-senior members of our community in the Executive Committee, (ii) make more researchers aware of our community, and (iii) "keep SIPTA great".