Rafal Kulik

Rafal Kulik, PhD, is a Full Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Ottawa. He holds MSc from the University of Ulm (Germany) and a PhD from the University of Wroclaw (Poland). After finishing his PhD, he spent three years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Ottawa. Afterwards, he was recruited as a Lecturer by the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney (Australia). He joined the University of Ottawa in 2007. 

Rafal Kulik has been teaching mathematics for over 20 years. He teaches probability, statistics, financial mathematics and machine learning on both undergraduate and graduate level. In 2009 he (with other colleagues from the Department) created Honours BSc program in Financial Mathematics and Economics, which became the largest program in the Department. He had also a leading role in creating a Joint Honours program in Data Science. He is also involved in the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences AIMS-Senegal, where he taught several courses.

He has published two research monographs and over 60 articles in leading scientific journals. His research on extreme value theory and machine learning is currently funded by NSERC and CANSSI (Canadian Statistical Science Institute), while research on data privacy is being funded by MITACS and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner. He currently supervises 7 students. He is the Associate Editor of four leading journals in the field.

Rafal Kulik served as the chair of the Department between 2016-2019, as well as an interim chair in 2022-2023. Currently, he serves as the coordinator of Statistics and Financial Mathematics programs and is involved in several committees (online teaching, undergraduate program review).