Adrien Hardy

Mathematician | Quantitative Researcher at QRT | Maître de conférences at Université de Lille.

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Here I share my research publications, some teaching resources, and a few thoughts on (applied) mathematics more broadly.

About me: I'm quantitative research director at Qube Research and Technologies, an algorithmic trading investement fund, in Zürich. I am on leave from my academic position (Maître de conférences, i.e., Associate professor) from the department of Mathematics at Université de Lille.

My academic research interests lie principally in understanding large random interacting particle systems, including random matrix models, determinantal point processes, or Gibbs measures such as the Coulomb gas. More recently, I became interested in using such models for applications (numerical integration, machine learning & AI, signal processing, telecomunications, and quantitative finance).

Zeros of a spherical Gaussian analytic function, taken from Bardenet-Hardy 2019.

Academic research

Peer-reviewed publications:

See also: Google Scholar | MathSciNet | ArXiv.

Non-asymptotic analysis of data augmentation for precision matrix estimation
with Lucas Morisset, Alain Durmus. To appear in NeurIPS - spotlight (2025) [arXiv]
From point processes to quantum optics and back
with Rémi Bardenet, Alexandre Feller, Jérémie Bouttier, Pascal Degiovanni, Adam Rançon, Benjamin Roussel, Grégory Schehr, Christophe I. Westbrook, Preprint (2022) [arXiv]
CLT for circular beta-Ensembles at high temperature
with Gaultier Lambert. Journal of Functional Analysis (2020) [arXiv , JFA]
Mutual information of wireless channels and block-Jacobi ergodic operators
with Walid Hachem, Shlomo Shamai. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (2019) [arXiv, IEEE IT]
DLR equations and rigidity for the Sine-beta process
with David Dereudre, Thomas Leblé, Mylène Maïda. Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics (2020) [arXiv , CPAM]
A correspondence between zeros of time-frequency transforms and Gaussian analytic functions
with Rémi Bardenet, Pierre Chainais, Julien Flamant. 13th International conference on sampling theory and applications, SampTA (2019) [HAL, SampTA]
Time-frequency transforms of white noises and Gaussian analytic functions
with Rémi Bardenet. Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis (2019) [arXiv, ACHA]
Energy of the Coulomb gas on the sphere at low temperature
with Carlos Beltrán. Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (2018) [arXiv, ARMA]
Polynomial ensembles and recurrence coefficients
Constructive Approximation (2018) [arXiv, CA]
Concentration for Coulomb gases and Coulomb transport inequalities
with Djalil Chafaï, Mylène Maïda. Journal of Functional Analysis (2018) [arXiv, JFA]
Processus ponctuels déterminantaux / Determinantal Point Processes
with Mylène Maïda. Gazette des Mathématiciens and Newsletter of the EMS(2018) [SMF, EMS]
From random matrices to Monte Carlo integration via Gaussian quadrature
with Rémi Bardenet. IEEE Statistical Signal processing workshop (2018) [HAL, IEEE SSP]
Monte Carlo with determinantal point processes
with Rémi Bardenet. Annals of Applied Probability (2019) [arXiv, AAP]
A survey on the eigenvalues local behavior of large complex correlated Wishart matrices
with Walid Hachem, Jamal Najim. ESAIM: Proceedings and surveys (2015) [arXiv, ESAIM]
Large complex correlated Wishart matrices: The Pearcey kernel and expansion at the hard edge
with Walid Hachem, Jamal Najim. Electronic Journal of Probability (2016) [arXiv, EJP]
Large complex correlated Wishart matrices: Fluctuations and asymptotic independence at the edges
with Walid Hachem, Jamal Najim. Annals of Probability (2016) [arXiv, AOP]
Average characteristic polynomials of determinantal point processes
Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré - Probabilités et Statistiques (2015) [arXiv, AIHP]
Large deviations for a non-centered Wishart matrix
with Arno Kuijlaars. Random Matrices: Theory and Applications (2013) [arXiv, RMTA]
A note on large deviations for 2D Coulomb gas with weakly confining potential
Electronic Communications in Probability (2012) [arXiv, ECP]
Weakly admissible vector equilibrium problems
with Arno Kuijlaars. Journal of Approximation Theory (2012) [arXiv, JAT]

PhD students:

Lucas Morisset (2024- ), with Alain Durmus and Emmanuel Gobet at Ecole Polytechnique & QRT.
Mohamed Slim Kammoun (2017-2020), with Mylène Maïda at Université de Lille.

Projects:

I was member of the INRIA team PARADYSE, and the ERC funded project BlackJack led by Rémi Bardenet.

Teaching material

Some academic lectures I gave (mainly in french):

(2025-) Machine learning for quantitative trading, Portfolio Management Program (Univ. Zürich & ETH).
(2019-2020) Concentration de la mesure et applications, M2 Recherche (Math), Cours + TD.
(2019-2020) Chaînes de Markov et applications, M2 Ingénierie Statistique et Numérique (Math), Cours + TP Python.
(2019-2020) Probabilités discrètes, L2 (Math), TD.
(2018-2020) Probabilité, modèles et applications, M1 Ingénierie mathématique (Math), Cours + TD.
(2016-2020) Séries temporelles, M1 Mathématiques pour la finance (Math), Cours + TP Python + TP R (older).
(2016-2018) Introduction to statistics, M1 Biomedical engineering (Centrale Lille), cours + TP R.
(2016-2018) Introduction aux processus ponctuels déterminantaux, M2 Recherche (Math), Cours + TD.
(2015-2018) Traitement informatique de la statistique des données, M1 Ingénierie mathématique (Math), cours + TP R & SAS.
(2015-2017) Mathématiques de base, L1 SVTE parcours aménagé (Biologie), cours + TD.
(2015-2016) Mathématiques (analyse, algèbre, probabilités), Telecom Lille, TD.

Curriculum

Since September 2020, I am on leave (en disponibilité) to work as a Quantitative Researcher at QRT (Paris). I moved in October 2023 to the brand new QRT office in Zürich, in quality of Quantitative Research Director.

Since September 2015, I am Maître de conférences (~Associate professor) in the Laboratoire Paul Painlevé, the mathematic department of the University of Lille. I obtained in 2020 my "Habilitation à diriger des recherches" (HDR), which is the French diploma allowing to supervise your own PhD students and claim for full professorship; the manuscript can be found here.

During 2013-2015, I had a postdoctoral position at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in the research team of Kurt Johansson.

In June 2013, I obtained a joint PhD degree (see the thesis) from KU Leuven, supervised by Arno Kuijlaars, and the Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse, supervised by Michel Ledoux.

Before that, I studied in the Magistère de mathématiques de Strasbourg, including a Bachelor thesis with Janos Polonyi on quantum physics' axioms, a Magistère thesis with Jean-Bernard Zuber on quantum integrable systems (internship at the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies de Jussieu), and a Master thesis with Pierre van Moerbeke on random matrices and tillings (Erasmus exchange program with the Université Catholique de Louvain).