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

Cortinovis, S. and Caron, F. (2025) “FAB-PPI: Frequentist, Assisted by Bayes, Prediction-Powered Inference”, in.
Caron, F. et al. (2025) “Over-parameterised Shallow Neural Networks with Asymmetrical Node Scaling: Global Convergence Guarantees and Feature Learning”, Transactions on Machine Learning Research [Preprint].
Lee, H. et al. (2023) “Deep neural networks with dependent weights: Gaussian process mixture limit, heavy tails, sparsity and compressibility”, Journal of Machine Learning Research, 24, pp. 1–78.

Contact Details

Tutorial Fellow at Keble College

Office: 1.20

Tel: +44 (0)1865 282 865