Christian Robert

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Christian P. Robert
Born (1961-09-09) September 9, 1961 (age 62)
Nationality French
Alma mater ENSAE
Université de Rouen
Scientific career
Fields Statistics
Institutions Université Paris-Dauphine
University of Warwick
Thesis Résultats nouveaux sur les estimateurs à rétrécisseurs scalaires et matriciels (1987)
Doctoral advisor Jean-Pierre Raoult
Doctoral students Judith Rousseau
Website www.ceremade.dauphine.fr/~xian/
xianblog.wordpress.com

Christian P. Robert is a French statistician, specializing in Bayesian statistics and Monte Carlo methods.

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Career

Christian Robert studied at ENSAE then defended his PhD in 1987 at Université de Rouen. [1] He held temporary positions at Purdue and Cornell before being an associate professor at Université Paris 6, and then Professor at Université de Rouen. He was also Professor of Statistics at École Polytechnique and director of Center for Research in Economics and Statistics. [2] As of 2021, he is Professor at CEREMADE, Université Paris-Dauphine and a part-time member of the Department of Statistics, University of Warwick.

Works

Christian Robert is the author of several textbooks on Bayesian inference and Monte Carlo methods, including:

Service

Robert served as the editor in chief of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, from 2006 to 2009. He was president of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis in 2008. In 2016 he was joint program chair of the AIStats conference. [3]

Awards

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References

  1. "Christian Robert - The Mathematics Genealogy Project".
  2. "Christian P. Robert Basics".
  3. "AIStats 2016 organizers".
  4. "Institute of Mathematical Statistics - Honored IMS Fellows".
  5. "DeGroot prize".
  6. "ISBA Fellows".