Prof. dr. Dries Benoit is professor of Business Analytics at the faculty of Economics and Business Administration of Ghent University. He teaches Bayesian statistics to the Business Engineering students and in the Master of Statistical Data Analysis.
His research is focused on the use of Bayesian statistics for business analytics. He worked on problems ranging from customer relationship management, over credit scoring to pricing and revenue management. Methodologically, he contributed to the field of Bayesian quantile regression and Bayesian robustness.