Christian Robert#
| Membership Number: | 2851 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2010 |
https://www.ceremade.dauphine.fr/~xian
Present and Previous Positions
- 2013 Professor of Statistics at the University of Warwick
- 2010-2015 Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF)
- 2002-2009 Head of the Statistics Laboratory at CREST
- 2000 Professor of Statistics at the Université Paris Dauphine
- 1992-2000 Head of the Statistics Laboratory at CREST
- 1992-2005 Professor of Statistics at Ecole Polytechnique
Fields of Scholarship
- Bayesian statistics (decision theory, model choice, foundations, objective Bayesian methodology, paradoxes)
- Computational statistics (Monte Carlo methodology, MCMC methods, sequential importance sampling, approximate Bayesian computation (ABC), convergence diagnoses)
- Latent variable models (mixtures, hidden Markov models)
Honours and Awards
- Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)
- IMS 2005 Medallion Lecturer
- Winner of the second `DeGroot Prize' at the ISBA 2004 World Meeting
- Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)
- Member of the Academia Europaea
