I am an Associate Professor in the department of Statistics and a tutorial Fellow at Keble College, University of Oxford. I am co-director of the Oxford-Warwick EPSRC-MRC Centre for Doctoral Training in modern statistical science (OxWaSP).

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, recommender systems and ranking systems.

• Statistical Machine Learning
• Bayesian Methods, Bayesian nonparametrics
• Monte Carlo methods
• Statistical Network modeling

Research Group

Current

• Cian Naik, PhD student, co-supervised with J. Rousseau
• Francesca Panero, PhD student, Oxford, co-supervised with J. Rousseau
  

Alumni

• Fadhel Ayed, PhD student, Oxford (2016-2020).
  
• Giuseppe Di  Benedetto, PhD student, Oxford (2015-2020), co-supervised with Y.W. Teh. Now Machine Learning Scientist at Amazon.
  
• Xenia Miscouridou, PhD student, Oxford (2015-2020), co-supervised with Y.W. Teh. Now Machine Learning Scientist at AIG.
  
• Juho Lee, postdoc (2018-2019), Oxford. Now Assistant Professor at KAIST. 
• Jessica Sodjo, PhD student, INRIA Bordeaux (2014-2018), co-supervised with A. Giremus, N. Dobigeon and J.F. Giovannelli. Now Lecturer at University of Guyane.
• Andrei Barbos, PhD student, University of Bordeaux (2014-2018), co-supervised with J.F. Giovannelli. Now Image Processing Scientist at DxOMark.
• Adrien Todeschini, PhD student at INRIA Bordeaux (2013-2016), co-supervised with M. Chavent. Now Data Scientist at scorelab.io.
• Boris Hejblum, PhD student at University of Bordeaux (2011-2015), co-supervised with R. Thiébaut. Now Assistant Professor (maitre de conférence) at University of Bordeaux.
• Michele Pace, PhD student at INRIA Bordeaux (2009-2011), co-supervised with P. Del Moral. Now Chief Technology Officer at Exmetrica.

Software

OxCSML-BayesNP Github group

BNRG (Python): Simulation and inference for Bayesian Norros-Reittu random graph models
Micropartition (Julia): Simulation and inference for random partition with microclustering property
SNetOC (Matlab package): Simulation and inference for Sparse and modular Networks with Overlapping Communities (SNetOC)
NPflow (R package): Bayesian Nonparametrics for Automatic Gating of Flow-Cytometry Data
BNPgraph (Matlab package): Simulation and posterior inference for sparse random graphs
BiiPS software: Bayesian Inference with Interacting Particle Systems
Polyatreetest (Matlab/Octave package): Bayesian nonparametric two-sample test with Polya tree priors
BNPPL (Matlab/Octave package): Bayesian inference in nonparametric (mixture of) Plackett-Luce models
HASI (Matlab package): Adaptive algorithm for low-rank matrix completion and collaborative filtering
BayesBT (Matlab/Octave package): Efficient Bayesian inference for generalized Bradley-Terry models

Teaching

Statistical Machine Learning (Hilary Term 2020)

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