Irène Gijbels

Irène Gijbels is a mathematical statistician at KU Leuven in Belgium,[1] and an expert on nonparametric statistics.

She has also collaborated with TopSportLab, a KU Leuven spin-off, on software for risk assessment of sports injuries.

Her dissertation, supervised by Noël Veraverbeke, was Asymptotic Representations under Random Censoring.

[3] She joined KU Leuven after postdoctoral research as a Fulbright scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute.

[4] With Jianqing Fan, Gijbels is the author of Local Polynomial Modelling and Its Applications (CRC Press, 1996).