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I am a Senior Lecturer in Statistics at Imperial College London. My research focuses on Bayesian computational statistics (MCMC and ABC methods), and on stochastic modelling for Linguistics and other Social Sciences. Until 2024, I was Associate Professor (maître de conférences HDR) in Statistics in the CEREMADE, Université Paris-Dauphine. From 2014 to 2017, I was also an associate member in the DMA at École Normale Supérieure.
I strive to fly less.
Recent and upcoming events:
June 2025: BayesComp, Singapore
11 Mar 2025: Health Data Hub talk
7 Feb 2025: Leeds Statistics seminar
Jan 2025: I'm happy to join the editorial board of Bayesian Analysis
Dec 2024: CFE-CMStatistics conference
Nov 2024: Keynote at COMPAS
16-18 Oct 2024: Bayesian Methods for the Social Sciences 2, Amsterdam
11 Oct 2024: Imperial Statistics seminar
8 éOct 2024: Imperial Stochastics Oktoberfest
3 Oct 2024: Talk at StatML CDT
4 June 2024: LSCP plenary seminar
21 May 2024: Lille seminar
17 May 2024: EHESS Complex Systems Seminar
Recent papers:
Feb 2025: New preprint: Phylogenetic latent space models for network data
Dec 2024: Updated preprint: Career Modeling with Missing Data and Traces
Oct 2024: New preprint: Saddlepoint Monte Carlo and its Application to Exact Ecological Inference
Aug 2024: New preprint: Contrasting modes of cultural evolution: Kra-Dai languages and weaving technologies
June 2024: New preprint: Ancestral Meanings: A Prelude to Evolutionary Animal Linguistics
May 2024: Insufficient Gibbs Sampling has been published by Statistics and Computing
May 2024: The Family Tree Model has been accepted for the Wiley Blackwell Companion to Diachronic Linguistics
Mar 2024: Interview in the French popular science magazine Pour la Science
Feb 2024: Our paper Computational phylogenetics reveal histories of sign languages is out in Science!