François Caron
François Caron
Professor of Statistics, University of Oxford
Tutorial Fellow, Keble College

I am a Professor in the department of Statistics and a tutorial Fellow at Keble College, University of Oxford. I am a co-director of the Imperial-Oxford EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Statistics and Machine Learning (StatML). I am also acting director of the MSc in Statistical Science for 2025-2026.

Research interests

My research interests lie in the development of probabilistic models for the analysis of complex and structured data, the study of the theoretical properties of such models and the development of scalable inference algorithms. I am currently particularly interested in sparse networks.

Research Group

Current

Alumni



Software

OxCSML-BayesNP Github group



Teaching

Undergraduate/MSc Course on Applied and Computational Statistics (2025--Present)
Undergraduate/MSc Course on Statistical Machine Learning (2020--2024)
Undergraduate/MSc Course on Computational Statistics (2017--2019)
Tutorials in Analysis, Probability and Statistics (2015--Present)


Editorial Work

Associate Editor for Statistics/Machine Learning Journals: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society B (2022 -- present), Electronic Journal of Statistics (2016 -- 2021), Journal of Machine Learning Research (2013 -- 2020), Bayesian Analysis (2016 -- 2018)
Area Chair for Machine Learning Conferences: AISTATS (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2016, 2011), NeurIPS (2025, 2024, 2020, 2019), ICLR (2024, 2022, 2021), UAI (2012)


Contact Information

François Caron
Department of Statistics
University of Oxford
24-29 St Giles
OX1 3LB, Oxford
United Kingdom

Phone: +44 (0)1865 282 865
Email: caron@stats.ox.ac.uk