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

Bǎrbos, A. et al. (2018) “Clone MCMC: Parallel high-dimensional Gaussian gibbs sampling”, in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 30: 31st Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2017). Curran Associates, pp. 5021–5029.

Caron, F. and Fox, E. (2017) “Sparse graphs using exchangeable random measures”, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology, 79(5), pp. 1295–1366.

Caron, F. et al. (2017) “Generalized Polya Urn for Time-Varying Pitman-Yor Processes”, Journal of Machine Learning Research, 18(27), pp. 1–32.

Caron, F. and Matechou, E. (2017) “Modelling individual migration patterns using a Bayesian nonparametric approach for capture-recapture data”, Annals of Applied Statistics, 11(1), pp. 21–40.

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. et al. (2016) “Joint Segmentation of Multiple Images with Shared Classes: A Bayesian Nonparametrics Approach”, in. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 1–5.

Caron, F. (2016) “Book Review: Nonlinear Time Series: Theory, methods, and applications with R examples, by Randal Douc, Eric Moulines, David S. Stoffer”, Statistics and Computing, 26(1-2), pp. 571–572.

Holmes, C. et al. (2015) “Two-sample Bayesian Nonparametric Hypothesis Testing”, Bayesian Analysis, 10(2).

Minvielle, P. et al. (2014) “Particle MCMC for Bayesian Microwave Control”, in Journal of Physics Conference Series. IOP Publishing, p. 012007.

Caron, F. and Bornn, L. (2014) “Comment on Article by Finegold and Drton”, Bayesian Analysis, 9(3).

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