
Looking for students or interns
Areas of expertise
Data Science applied to the environment and environmental health
- Full Professor
- Head of the Data Science and Environmental Science Lab (DS & ES)
Email
fateh.chebana@inrs.ca
Eau Terre Environnement Research Centre
490 de la Couronne Street
Québec City, Quebec G1K 9A9
CANADA
Research interests
Professor Chebana’s research interest is mainly in Data science with focus on applications in environment and environmental health. His expertise is in a large variety of interdisciplinary research with data science approaches (including but not limited to hydrology, water sciences, climatology, climate epidemiology, climate change effects). He is interested in developing new data science methodologies, as well as adapting or applying recent/advanced approaches.
Book
Chebana, Fateh (2022). Multivariate Frequency Analysis of Hydro-Meteorological Variables: A Copula-Based Approach. Elsevier, ix, 210 pages.
Training openings for students or interns
Publications
Boudreault, Jérémie, Campagna, Céline, Lavigne, Éric & Chebana, Fateh (2025). Projecting the overall heat-related health burden and associated economic costs in a climate change context in Quebec, Canada. Science of The Total Environment, 958: art. 178022.
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.178022
Boudreault, Jérémie, Ruf, Annabel, Campagna, Céline & Chebana, Fateh (2024). Multi-region models built with machine and deep learning for predicting several heat-related health outcomes. Sustainable Cities and Society, online.
DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2024.105785
Boudreault, Jérémie, Lavigne, Éric, Campagna, Céline & Chebana, Fateh (2024). Estimating the heat-related mortality and morbidity burden in the province of Quebec, Canada. Environmental Research, 257: art. 119347.
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.119347
Boudreault, Jérémie, Campagna, Céline & Chebana, Fateh (2024). Revisiting the importance of temperature, weather and air pollution variables in heat-mortality relationships with machine learning. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 31 (9): 14059-14070.
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-024-31969-z
Goutali, Dorsaf & Chebana, Fateh (2024). Multivariate overall and dependence trend tests, applied to hydrology. Environmental Modelling & Software, 179: art. 106090.
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2024.106090
Ouarda, Taha B. M. J., Masselot, Pierre, Campagna, Céline, Gosselin, Pierre, Lavigne, Éric, St-Hilaire, André, Chebana, Fateh & Valois, Pierre (2024). Prediction of heatwave related mortality magnitude, duration and frequency with climate variability and climate change information. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 38 (11): 4471-4483.
DOI: 10.1007/s00477-024-02813-0
Volpi, Elena, Grimaldi, Salvatore, AghaKouchak, Amir, Castellarin, Attilio, Chebana, Fateh, Papalexiou, Simon Michael, Aksoy, Hafzullah, Bárdossy, András, Cancelliere, Antonino, Chen, Yanfeng, Deidda, Roberto, Haberlandt, Uwe, Eris, Ebru, Fischer, Svenja, Francés, Felix, Kavetski, Dmitri, Rodding Kjeldsen, Thomas, Kochanek, Krzysztof, Langousis, Andreas, Mediero Orduña, Luis, Montanari, Alberto, Nerantzaki, Sofia D., Ouarda, Taha B. M. J., Prosdocimi, Ilaria, Ragno, Elesa, Rajulapati, Chandra R., Requena, Ana Isabel, Ridolfi, Elena, Sadegh, Mojtaba, Schumann, Andreas & Sharma, Ashish (2024). The legacy of STAHY: Milestones, achievements, challenges, and open problems in statistical hydrology. Hydrological Sciences Journal, online.
DOI: 10.1080/02626667.2024.2385686
Boudreault, Jérémie, Campagna, Céline & Chebana, Fateh (2023). Machine and deep learning for modelling heat-health relationships. Science of The Total Environment, 892: Art. 164660.
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164660
Chebana, Fateh (2023). Multivariate Frequency Analysis of Hydro-Meteorological Variables: A Copula-Based Approach. Elsevier, ix, 210 pages.
Ben Nasr, Imene & Chebana, Fateh (2022). Estimation method for mixture copula models in hydrological context. Journal of Hydrology, 615 (Part A): Art. 128603.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.128603
Boudreault, Jérémie, Bergeron, Normand E., St-Hilaire, André & Chebana, Fateh (2022). A new look at habitat suitability curves through functional data analysis. Ecological Modelling, 467: Art. 109905.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2022.109905
Jeljli, Amal, Houle, Daniel, Duchesne, Louis, El Shaarawi, Abdelhamid & Chebana, Fateh (2022). Evaluation of the factors governing dissolved organic carbon concentration in the soil solution of a temperate forest organic soil. Science of the Total Environment, 853: Art. 158240.
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158240
Masselot, Pierre, Ouarda, Taha B. M. J., Charron, Christian, Campagna, Céline, Lavigne, Éric, St-Hilaire, André, Chebana, Fateh, Valois, Pierre & Gosselin, Pierre (2022). Heat-related mortality prediction using low-frequency climate oscillation indices: Case studies of the cities of Montréal and Québec, Canada. Environmental Epidemiology, 6: Art. e206.
DOI: 10.1097/EE9.0000000000000206
Masselot, Pierre, Chebana, Fateh, Ouarda, Taha B. M. J., Bélanger, Diane & Gosselin, Pierre (2022). Data-enhancement strategies in weather-related health studies. Environmental Research and Public Health, 19 (2): Art. 906.
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19020906
Masselot, Pierre, Chebana, Fateh, Campagna, Céline, Lavigne, Éric, Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. & Gosselin, Pierre (2022). Constrained groupwise additive index models. Biostatistics, kxac023.
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxac023
Alobaidi, Mohannad H., Ouarda, Taha B. M. J., Marpu, Prashanth Reddy & Chebana, Fateh (2021). Diversity-driven ANN-based ensemble framework for seasonal low-flow analysis at ungauged sites. Advances in Water Resources, 147: Art. 103814.
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2020.103814
Boudreault, Jérémie, St-Hilaire, André, Chebana, Fateh & Bergeron, Normand E. (2021). Modelling fish physico-thermal habitat selection using functional regression. Journal of Ecohydraulics, 6 (2): 105-120.
DOI: 10.1080/24705357.2020.1840313
Chebana, Fateh & Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. (2021). Multivariate non-stationary hydrological frequency analysis. Journal of Hydrology, 593: Art. 125907.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125907
Chiu, Yohann Moanahere, Chebana, Fateh, Abdous, Belkacem, Bélanger, Diane & Gosselin, Pierre (2021). Cardiovascular health peaks and meteorological conditions: A quantile regression approach. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18 (24): Art. 13277.
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph182413277
Issa, Mahamat Abdelkerim, Chebana, Fateh, Masselot, Pierre, Campagna, Céline, Lavigne, Éric, Gosselin, Pierre & Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. (2021). A heat-health watch and warning system with extended season and evolving thresholds. BMC Public Health, 21: Art. 1479.
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-021-10982-8
Masselot, Pierre, Chebana, Fateh, Campagna, Céline, Lavigne, Éric, Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. & Gosselin, Pierre (2021). Machine learning approaches to identify thresholds in a heat-health warning system context. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Serie A: Statistics in Society, 184 (4): 1326-1346.
DOI: 10.1111/rssa.12745
Alobaidi, Mohannad H.; Meguid, Mohamed A. & Chebana, Fateh (2020). Varying-parameter modeling within ensemble architecture: Application to extended streamflow forecasting. J. Hydrol., 582: Art. 124511.
DOI: /10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.124511
Ben Alaya, Mohammed Ali; Ternynck, Camille S.; Dabo-Niang, Sophie; Chebana, Fateh & Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. (2020). Change point detection of flood events using a functional data framework. Adv. Water Resour., 137: Art. 103522.
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2020.103522
Karahacane, Hafsa; Meddi, Mohamed; Chebana, Fateh & Saaed, Hamoudi A. (2020). Complete multivariate flood frequency analysis, applied to northern Algeria. J. Flood Risk Manage., 13 (4): Art. e12619.
DOI: 10.1111/jfr3.12619
Serinaldi, Francesco; Chebana, Fateh & Kilsby, Chris G. (2020). Dissecting innovative trend analysis. Stoch. Environ. Res. Risk Asses., 34: 733-754.
DOI: 10.1007/s00477-020-01797-x
Yan, Bixun; Chebana, Fateh; Masselot, Pierre; Campagna, Céline; Gosselin, Pierre; Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. & Lavigne, Éric (2020). A cold-health watch and warning system, applied to the province of Quebec (Canada). Sci. Total Environ., 741: Art. 140188.
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140188
Alobaidi, Mohannad H.; Meguid, Mohamed A. & Chebana, Fateh (2019). Predicting seismic-induced liquefaction through ensemble learning frameworks. Scientific Reports, 9: Art. 11786.
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-48044-0
Ben Nasr, Imen & Chebana, Fateh (2019). Homogeneity testing of multivariate hydrological records, using multivariate copula L-moments. Adv. Water Resour., 134: Art. 103449.
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2019.103449
Ben Nasr, Imen & Chebana, Fateh (2019). Multivariate L-moment based tests for copula selection, with hydrometeorological applications. J. Hydrol., 579: Art. 124151.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.124151
Boudreau, Jérémie; Bergeron, Normand E.; St-Hilaire, André & Chebana, Fateh (2019). Stream temperature modeling using functional regression models. J. Am. Water Resour. Assoc., 55 (6): 1382-1400.
DOI: 10.1111/1752-1688.12778
Curceac, Stelian; Ternynck, Camille S.; Ouarda, Taha B. M. J.; Chebana, Fateh & Niang, Sophie Dabo (2019). Short-term air temperature forecasting using Nonparametric Functional Data Analysis and SARMA models. Environ. Model. Soft., 111 : 394-408.
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2018.09.017
Masselot, Pierre; Chebana, Fateh; Lavigne, Éric; Campagna, Céline; Gosselin, Pierre & Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. (2019). Toward an improved air pollution warning system in Quebec. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 16 (12): Art. 2095.
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph16122095
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