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

Gray-Davies, T., Holmes, C. and Caron, F. (2016) “Scalable Bayesian nonparametric regression via a Plackett-Luce model for conditional ranks”, Electronic Journal of Statistics, 10(2), pp. 1807–1828.
Sodjo, J., Giremus, A., Caron, F., Giovannelli, J.-F. and Dobigeon, N. (2016) “Joint Segmentation of Multiple Images with Shared Classes: A Bayesian Nonparametrics Approach”, in. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 1–5.
Holmes, C., Caron, F., Griffin, J. and Stephens, D. (2015) “Two-sample Bayesian Nonparametric Hypothesis Testing”, Bayesian Analysis, 10(2).
Caron, F., Teh, Y. and Murphy, T. (2014) “Bayesian nonparametric Plackett–Luce models for the analysis of preferences for college degree programmes”, The Annals of Applied Statistics, 8(2), pp. 1145–1181.
Caron, F. and Bornn, L. (2014) “Robust Bayesian Graphical Modeling Using Dirichlet <i>t</i>-Distributions Comment”, BAYESIAN ANALYSIS, 9(3), pp. 551–555.
Minvielle, P., Todeschini, A., Caron, F. and Del Moral, P. (2014) “Particle MCMC for Bayesian Microwave Control”, in 4TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON NEW COMPUTATIONAL METHODS FOR INVERSE PROBLEMS (NCMIP2014).
Todeschini, A., Caron, F. and Chavent, M. (2013) “Probabilistic low-rank matrix completion with adaptive spectral regularization algorithms”, in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems.
Archambeau, C. and Caron, F. (2012) “Plackett-luce regression: A new bayesian model for polychotomous data”, in Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence - Proceedings of the 28th Conference, UAI 2012, pp. 84–92.
Caron, F. and Teh, Y. (2012) “Bayesian nonparametric models for ranked data”, in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, pp. 1520–1528.
Caron, F. (2012) “Bayesian nonparametric models for bipartite graphs”, in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, pp. 2051–2059.

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