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Professor François Caron

Professor of Statistics, Acting MSc in Statistical Science Course Director

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

Naik, C., Caron, F. and Rousseau, J. (2019) “Sparse Networks with Core-Periphery Structure”, arXiv.
Lee, J., Miscouridou, X. and Caron, F. (2019) “A unified construction for series representations and finite approximations of completely random measures”, arXiv.
Lee, J. et al. (2019) “A Bayesian model for sparse graphs with flexible degree distribution and overlapping community structure”, in Proceedings of Machine Learning Research. PMLR, pp. 758–767.
Hejblum, B. et al. (2019) “Sequential Dirichlet process mixtures of multivariate skew t-distributions for model-based clustering of flow cytometry data”, Annals of Applied Statistics, 13(1), pp. 638–660.
Ayed, F. and Caron, F. (2019) “Nonnegative Bayesian nonparametric factor models with completely random measures for community detection”, arXiv.
Ayed, F., Lee, J. and Caron, F. (2019) “Beyond the Chinese Restaurant and Pitman-Yor processes: Statistical Models with Double Power-law Behavior”, arXiv.
Ayed, F., Lee, J. and Caron, F. (2019) “Beyond the Chinese Restaurant and Pitman-Yor processes: Statistical Models with double power-law behavior”, in Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, pp. 395–404.
Sodjo, J. et al. (2019) “A Bayesian Nonparametric Model for Unsupervised Joint Segmentation of a Collection of Images”, IEEE Access, 7, pp. 120176–120188.
Ayed, F., Lee, J. and Caron, F. (2019) “Beyond the Chinese Restaurant and Pitman-Yor processes: Statistical Models with double power-law behavior”, in 36th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2019, pp. 604–613.
Lee, J. et al. (2019) “A Bayesian model for sparse graphs with flexible degree distribution and overlapping community structure”, in Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, pp. 758–767.

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