Jean-François Plante

Member, GERAD

Professor, Department of Decision Sciences, HEC Montréal

jfplante@hec.ca

Phone: 514-340-6563

Fax: 514-340-5634

Other titles and affiliations

since Nov 2022

President, Association des statisticiennes et statisticiens du Québec (ASSQ)

Jun 2014 – May 2022

Associate Professor, Department of Decision Sciences, HEC Montréal

Research Axes

Axis 1: Data valuation for decision making

Research Applications

Energy, environment and natural resources
Marketing (business intelligence, revenue management, recommendation systems)

Publications

Dec 2025

Backpropagation-based inference for spatial interpolation to estimate the blastability index in an open pit mine

Yakin Hajlaoui, Richard Labib, Jean-François Plante, and Michel Gamache

Computers & Geosciences, 194, Paper no: 105756, 2025 BibTeX reference

Nov 2024

G-2024-76
Comptes rendus du 14e atelier de résolution de problèmes industriels de Montréal, 13--17 mai 2024 / Proceedings of the 14th Montréal industrial problem solving workshop, May 13--17, 2024

Odile Marcotte, Golshid Aflaki, Gilles Caporossi, Ali Barooni, Mathieu Gervais-Dubé, Janosch Ortmann, Michael R. Lindstrom, Pedram Peiroasfia, Samuel Perreault, Sylvain Perron, Jean-François Plante, Juliana Schulz, and Ernest Tafolong

The Fourteenth Montreal Industrial Problem Solving Workshop, held May 13-17, 2024, was jointly organized by the Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM), the...

BibTeX reference

Oct 2024

Enhancing Spatial Interpolation: A Multi-Layer Inverse Distance Weighting Model for Complex Regression and Classification Tasks in Spatial Data Analysis

Yakin Hajlaoui, Richard Labib, Jean-François Plante, and Michel Gamache

International Journal of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, 18(10), 121–128, 2024 BibTeX reference

35 publications

News

Doctoral thesis defence of Yakin Hajlaoui - August 18, 13h00

Aug 14, 2025

Titre : Modèles d’apprentissage automatique et d’interpolation spatiale utilisant les mesures prises durant le forage dans les mines à ciel ouvert

Cortex, a game developed at HEC Montréal, is a marketing hit

Oct 24, 2022

Professors Jean-François Plante and Pierre-Majorique Léger of HEC Montréal have received the Innovator of the Year Award from American software company SAS Institute. Their Cortex game, created in collaboration with the ERPsim Lab team, lets players develop their analytical skills.

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Jean-François Plante promoted to full professor

Jul 28, 2022

Since June 1st, 2022, Jean-François Plante has been promoted to Full Professor in the Department of Decision Sciences at HEC Montréal.

Congratulations!

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