François Caron

I am a Professor in the department of Statistics and a tutorial Fellow at Keble College, University of Oxford.

Research interests

My research interests lie in the development of probabilistic models for the analysis of complex and structured data, the study of the theoretical properties of such models and the development of scalable inference algorithms. I am currently particularly interested in sparse networks.

Statistical Machine Learning
Bayesian Methods, Bayesian nonparametrics
Statistical Network modeling

Research Group

Current

Valentin Kilian, PhD student, Oxford. Co-supervised with Benjamin Guedj.
Stefano Cortinovis, PhD student, Oxford. Co-supervised with Mark van der Wilk.
Kianoosh Ashouritaklimi, PhD student, Oxford. Co-supervised with Tom Rainforth.

Alumni

Francesca Panero, PhD student, Oxford (2017-2022), co-supervised with J. Rousseau. Now Assistant Professor in Statistics at Sapienza University.
Cian Naik, PhD student, Oxford (2017-2022), co-supervised with J. Rousseau. Now Senior Data Scientist at Deliveroo.
Fadhel Ayed, PhD student, Oxford (2016-2020). Now Machine Learning Scientist at Huawei Technologies.
Giuseppe Di Benedetto, PhD student, Oxford (2015-2020), co-supervised with Y.W. Teh. Now Machine Learning Scientist at Amazon.
Xenia Miscouridou, PhD student, Oxford (2015-2020), co-supervised with Y.W. Teh. Now Lecturer in Statistics at the University of Cyprus.
Juho Lee, postdoc (2018-2019), Oxford. Now Associate Professor at KAIST.
Jessica Sodjo, PhD student, INRIA Bordeaux (2014-2018), co-supervised with A. Giremus, N. Dobigeon and J.F. Giovannelli. Now Assistant Professor in Computer Science at University of Guyane.
Andrei Barbos, PhD student, University of Bordeaux (2014-2018), co-supervised with J.F. Giovannelli. Now Image Processing Scientist at DxOMark.
Adrien Todeschini, PhD student at INRIA Bordeaux (2013-2016), co-supervised with M. Chavent. Now Freelance Data Scientist.
Boris Hejblum, PhD student at University of Bordeaux (2011-2015), co-supervised with R. Thiébaut. Now Research Faculty (Chargé de Recherche) at Inserm Bordeaux Population Health Research Center.
Michele Pace, PhD student at INRIA Bordeaux (2009-2011), co-supervised with P. Del Moral. Now Chief Technology Officer at Exmetrica.

Software

OxCSML-BayesNP Github group

Teaching