Position
Senior researcher (DR) at the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)
Joint research unit (UMR) 518 AgroParisTech / INRA, Applied Mathematics and Computer Sciences
16 rue Claude Bernard, F - 75 231 Paris Cedex 05
(3)(0)1 44 08 72 07, fax: (3)(0)1 44 08 16 66
robin@agroparistech.fr
- Research groups:
- Associate editor:
- BMC Bioinformatics BMC Bioinformatics
- Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology (SAGMB)
- Journal de la Société Française de Statistique (J-SFdS)
- Biometrics (Biometrics)
- Teachings:
- Master2 Mathématiques pour les Sciences du Vivant (MathSV), see lecture notes below
- UE Modélisation statistique et analyse de données biologiques (ModelStat)
PhD
A PhD proposal on 'Inferring sparse networks based on incomplete data' has been submitted to the Ecole Doctorale de Mathématique Hadamard (EDMH).Candidates should directly register on the website of EDMH.
Projects
- ABS4NGS: Algorithmic, Bioinformatic and Software solutions for the analysis of Next Generation Sequencing data. 2012-2016
- EPIREG: Identification of chromosomal regions activated or inactivated by epigenetic mechanisms
- Amaizing: Breeding for economically and environmentally sustainable maize varieties: an integrated approach from genomics to selection. 2011-2018
- HydroGen: Comparative Metagenomic for Measuring Biodiversity, Application to Ocean Life Studie. 2014-2018
Research interests
- Statistical Methodology
- Models with hidden variables (mixtures, HMM, ….)
- Change-point detection
- Random graph models
- Variational approximations
- Network inference
- Statistical Applications in Molecular Biology
- Motif in DNA sequences
- Transcriptiome analysis
- Copy number variations in DNA
- Interaction networks
- Metagenomics
- Ecological network
Preprints:
- Exact and approximate inference in graphical models: variable elimination and beyond arxiv:1506.08544
- Bayesian Inference of Graphical Model Structures Using Trees arxiv:1504.02723
- SegCorr: a statistical procedure for the detection of genomic regions of correlated expression arxiv:1504.05738
- A factor model approach for the joint segmentation with between-series correlation arxiv:1505.05660
- A degree-based goodness-of-fit test for heterogeneous random graph models arxiv:1507.08140
Talks
- International Biometric Conference, Victoria (Canada), July 2016: Dispersion modeling for RNAseq differential analysis
- Statistical Analysis of Networks, , Cambridge (UK), Dec. 2016: Detecting change-points in the structure of a network:
Exact Bayesian inference - Journée de Statistiques / Journée de la Société Française de Biométrie, may 2016, Montpellier (France): Goodness of fit of logistic models for random graphs: a variational Bayes approach
Teachings
- Master 'Mathématiques pour les Sciences du Vivant': Models with Hidden Structure with Applications in Biology and Genomics