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

Miscouridou, X., Caron, F. and Teh, Y. (2018) “Modelling sparsity, heterogeneity, reciprocity and community structure in temporal interaction data”, in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31 (NIPS 2018) pre-proceedings. Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation.

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.

Miscouridou, X., Caron, F. and Teh, Y. (2018) “Modelling sparsity, heterogeneity, reciprocity and community structure in temporal interaction data”, arXiv.

Di Benedetto, G., Caron, F. and Teh, Y. (2017) “Non-exchangeable random partition models for microclustering”, arXiv.

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.

Hejblum, B. et al. (2017) “Sequential Dirichlet Process Mixtures of Multivariate Skew t-distributions for Model-based Clustering of Flow Cytometry Data”, arXiv.

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.

Naik, C. et al. (2016) “Bayesian Nonparametrics for Sparse Dynamic Networks”, arXiv.

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