Professor François Caron

Professor of Statistics

Biography

I am a Professor of Statistics at the University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow of Keble College.

Research Interests

  • Statistical machine learning
  • Computational statistics
  • Bayesian statistics
  • Bayesian nonparametrics
  • Network analysis

I am interested in the development of statistical models and computational procedures for the analysis of structured data. I have a particular interest in Bayesian nonparametrics and Monte Carlo methods.

Publications

Caron, F., Del Moral, P., Pace, M. and Vo, B.-N. (2011) “On the Stability and the Approximation of Branching Distribution Flows, with Applications to Nonlinear Multiple Target Filtering”, STOCHASTIC ANALYSIS AND APPLICATIONS, 29(6), pp. 951–997.
Caron, F., Doucet, A. and Gottardo, R. (2011) “On-line changepoint detection and parameter estimation with application to genomic data”, Statistics and Computing, pp. 1–17.
Pace, M., Del Moral, P. and Caron, F. (2010) “Comparison of implementations of Gaussian mixture PHD filters”, 13th Conference on Information Fusion, Fusion 2010 [Preprint].
Caron, F. and Doucet, A. (2009) “Bayesian nonparametric models on decomposable graphs”, in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22 - Proceedings of the 2009 Conference, pp. 225–233.
Caron, F., Ristic, B., Duflos, E. and Vanheeghe, P. (2008) “Least committed basic belief density induced by a multivariate Gaussian: Formulation with applications”, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 48(2), pp. 419–436.
Caron, F. and Doucet, A. (2008) “Sparse Bayesian nonparametric regression”, Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 88–95.
Caron, F., Davy, M., Doucet, A., Duflos, E. and Vanheeghe, P. (2008) “Bayesian Inference for Linear Dynamic Models with Dirichlet Process Mixtures”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 56(1), pp. 71–84.
Caron, F., Davy, M. and Doucet, A. (2007) “Generalized polya urn for time-varying dirichlet process mixtures”, in Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, UAI 2007, pp. 33–40.
Caron, F., Davy, M., Duflos, E. and Vanheeghe, P. (2007) “Particle Filtering for Multisensor Data Fusion with Switching Observation Models: Application to Land Vehicle Positioning”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 55(6), pp. 2703–2719.
Caron, F., Razavi, S., Song, J., Vanheeghe, P., Duflos, E., Caldas, C. and Haas, C. (2007) “Locating sensor nodes on construction projects”, Autonomous Robots, 22(3), pp. 255–263.

Contact Details

Tutorial Fellow at Keble College

Email: caron@stats.ox.ac.uk

Office: 1.20

Tel: +44 (0)1865 282 865

Website: www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~caron/

Research Groups

Computational Statistics and Machine Learning

Statistical Theory and Methodology