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Professor Simon Wilson

Professor (Statistics)
LLOYD INSTITUTE

 Simon.Wilson@tcd.ie

 +3531896 1759


Biography

Simon Wilson is an associate professor in statistics at the Trinity College Dublin. He was awarded a PhD in stochastic modeling from the George Washington University, Washington, DC, in 1993. His research interests are in applications of Bayesian methods in reliability and other fields of science and engineering.

Research Tags

  ACCELERATED TEST   ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE   BAYES INFERENCE   BAYESIAN ANALYSIS   BAYESIAN COMPUTATION   BAYESIAN INFERENCE   BAYESIAN STATISTICS   Biodiversity   Biomathematics, Biometrics   Computer Simulation/Modeling   Computer Storage & Retrieval   Data Analysis   Databases, database management, data mining   Fatigue/Fracture   High performance computing   IMAGE ANALYSIS   Image Processing   IMAGE PROCESSING COMPUTER ASSISTED   IMAGE SEGMENTATION   Imaging and Computer Vision   Machine Learning in Mulitmedia Information Retrieval   MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO   MARKOV RANDOM FIELD   MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING   MATHEMATICAL MODEL   MATHEMATICAL MODELING   MATHEMATICAL MODELLING   MATHEMATICAL SIMULATION   MONTE-CARLO ALGORITHM   MONTE-CARLO ALGORITHMS   MONTE-CARLO PROGRAM   MONTE-CARLO SIMULATION   MONTE-CARLO SIMULATIONS   Multimedia   Parallel Programming   Parallel Systems   Probability   RELIABILITY   Reliability (Engineering)   RELIABILITY THEORY   SOFTWARE   SOFTWARE DEBUGGING   Software Engineering   SOFTWARE RELIABILITY   SOFTWARE TESTING   Statistics   WARRANTIES   WARRANTY RESERVE

Research Projects

 Insight Centre for Data Analytics
 Statistical Methods in ICT Applications
 Reliability of Complex Telecommunications Networks
 Modelling Damage on European Roads

Representations

Details Date
REVIEWING (SINCE 2004)
Journal No. of papers reviewed
Biostatistics
Bone
Comput. Stat. Data Anal.
IEE Trans.
IEEE JSAC
IEEE Trans. Image Proc.
IEEE Trans. Reliab.
Image and Vision Computing
J. Risk and Reliability
J. Roy. Statist. Soc. B
J. Roy. Statist. Soc. C
Naval Research Logistics
Stat. and Comp.
Book proposal reviews

Languages

Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
Spanish Fluent Fluent Fluent

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details Date From Date To
Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society 1993 present
Member of Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society 1994 present
Elected member, International Statistical Institute 2006 present
Member of the International Society of Bayesian Analysis 2001 present
Wilson, S.P., Mai, T., Cogan, P., Bhattacharya, A., Aslett, L., O'Riordain, S. and Roetzer, G., Using Storm for scaleable sequential statistical inference, Proceedings of CompStat 2014, CompStat 2014, Geneva, 17 - 20/08/2014, 2014, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
Coolen, F.P.A., Aslett, L. and Wilson, S.P., Bayesian inference for reliability of systems and networks using the survival signature , Risk Analysis, 2014, Notes: [Available online at http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1111.risa.12228], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
Costello MJ, Houlding B, Wilson SP, As in other taxa, relatively fewer beetles are being described by an increasing number of authors: response to Löbl and Leschen, Systematic Entomology, 2014, p5 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Costello, M.J., Wilson, S., Houlding, B., More taxonomists describing significantly fewer species per unit effort may indicate that most species have been discovered, Systematic Biology, 62, (4), 2013, p616-624 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Mark Costello, Simon P. Wilson and Brett Houlding, Predicting total global species richness using rates of species description and estimates of taxonomic effort, Systematic Biology, 61, (5), 2012, p871 - 883, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Alicia Quirós Carretero and Simon P. Wilson, Dependent Gaussian mixture models for source separation, Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2012, 2012, p239 , Notes: [.], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Wilson, S T. Mai and B. Ghosh, Short-term traffic flow forecasting with A-SVARMA, ICE Transport, 2012, Journal Article, ACCEPTED  TARA - Full Text
Ward Appeltans, Shane T. Ahyong, Gary Anderson, Martin V. Angel, Tom Artois, Nicolas Bailly, Roger Bamber, Anthony Barber, Ilse Bartsch, Annalisa Berta, Magdalena Błażewicz-Paszkowycz, Phil Bock, Geoff Boxshall, Christopher B. Boyko, Simone Nunes Brandão, Rod A. Bray, Niel L. Bruce, Stephen D. Cairns, Tin-Yam Chan, Lanna Cheng, Allen G. Collins, Thomas Cribb, Marco Curini-Galletti, Farid Dahdouh-Guebas, Peter J.F. Davie, Michael N. Dawson, Olivier De Clerck, Wim Decock, Sammy De Grave, Nicole J. de Voogd, Daryl P. Domning, Christian C. Emig, Christer Erséus, William Eschmeyer, Kristian Fauchald, Daphne G. Fautin, Stephen W. Feist, Charles H.J.M. Fransen, Hidetaka Furuya, Oscar Garcia-Alvarez, Sarah Gerken, David Gibson, Arjan Gittenberger, Serge Gofas, Liza Gómez-Daglio, Dennis P. Gordon, Michael D. Guiry, Francisco Hernandez, Bert W. Hoeksema, Russell R. Hopcroft, Damià Jaume, Paul Kirk, Nico Koedam, Stefan Koenemann, Jürgen B. Kolb, Reinhardt M. Kristensen, Andreas Kroh, Gretchen Lambert, David B. Lazarus, Rafael Lemaitre, Matt Longshaw, Jim Lowry, Enrique Macpherson, Laurence P. Madin, Christopher Mah, Gill Mapstone, Patsy A. McLaughlin, Jan Mees, Kenneth Meland, Charles G. Messing, Claudia E. Mills, Tina N. Molodtsova, Rich Mooi, Birger Neuhaus, Peter K.L. Ng, Claus Nielsen, Jon Norenburg, Dennis M. Opresko, Masayuki Osawa, Gustav Paulay, William Perrin, John F. Pilger, Gary C.B. Poore, Phil Pugh, Geoffrey B. Read, James D. Reimer, Marc Rius, Rosana M. Rocha, José I. Saiz-Salinas, Victor Scarabino, Bernd Schierwater, Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa, Kareen E. Schnabel, Marilyn Schotte, Peter Schuchert, Enrico Schwabe, Hendrik Segers, Caryn Self-Sullivan, Noa Shenkar, Volker Siegel, Wolfgang Sterrer, Sabine Stöhr, Billie Swalla, Mark L. Tasker, Erik V. Thuesen, Tarmo Timm, M. Antonio Todaro, Xavier Turon, Seth Tyler, Peter Uetz, Jacob van der Land, Bart Vanhoorne, Leen P. van Ofwegen, Rob W.M. van Soest, Jan Vanaverbeke, Genefor Walker-Smith, T. Chad Walter, Alan Warren, Gary C. Williams, Simon P. Wilson, Mark J. Costello, The magnitude of global marine species diversity, Current Biology, 22, (23), 2012, p2189-2202 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Wilson, S.P., Goyal, S., Estimating production test properties from test measurement data, Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, 28, (6), 2012, p542-557 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Multivariate short-term tra ffic flow forecasting using Bayesian vector autoregressive moving average model (ed.), Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board, Washington DC., Washington DC., 2012, Notes: [Mai, Tiep;Ghosh, Bidisha;Wilson, Simon], Proceedings of a Conference, PUBLISHED  URL
  

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Introduction to Bayesian methods and decision theory in, editor(s)P. Cunningham and M. Cord , Machine Learning for Multimedia Data, Berlin, Springer-Verlag, 2008, pp3 - 20, [Simon Wilson, Rozenn Dahyot and Padraig Cunningham], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Mental image search in image databases in, editor(s)P. Cunningham and M. Cord , Machine Learning for Multimedia Data, Berlin, Springer, 2008, pp189 - 204, [Simon Wilson, Julien Fauquer and Nozha Boujemma], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
S.P. Wilson, B. Flood and S. Vilkomir, Probability modelling and decision analysis for software recovery , Mathematical Methods in Reliability, Glasgow, UK., 2007, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
S.P. Wilson & S. Goyal, Bayesian estimation for an imperfect test and repair model, European Test Symposium, Freiburg, Germany, 2007, Poster, PRESENTED
S.P. Wilson and Georgios Stefanou, Improving CBIR by modelling the search process: a Bayesian approach, Proceedings of the European Signal Processing Conference, European Signal Processing Conference, Firenze, Italy, 2006, pp1-4 , Conference Paper, PRESENTED
S.P. Wilson & K. McDaid, A split Poisson process model for the occurrence of defects and change requests during user acceptance testing, Department of Statistics,, Trinity College Dublin., 2005, Notes: [Technical Report 05/06], Report, PUBLISHED
S.P. Wilson & G. Stefanou, Decision-theoretic approaches to display strategies in content based image retrieval , MOUMIR Deliverable D5.3: Final Research Report Contribution, March, 2004, Notes: [I. Jermyn (Editor)], Report, PUBLISHED
S.P. Wilson & M.P. Wiper, Comprobacion de software. Un analisis Bayesiano , Congreso Nacional de Estadistica e Investigacion Operativa, Lleida, Spain, edited by 27 April , 2003, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
S.P. Wilson & M.P. Wiper, A Bayesian analysis of beta testing , Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, July, 2003, Notes: [Working Paper 03-31, Statistics and Econometrics Series,], Report, PUBLISHED
S.P. Wilson & G. Stefanou, Separability analysis of statistical features for classi cation of IGN images, Department of Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, 2002, Notes: [Technical Report 02/02.], Report, PUBLISHED

  

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Awards and Honours

Award Date
Fellow of Trinity College Dublin 2002

Research Interests

Description Of Research Interests

Bayesian statistics, reliability theory, software reliability, image processing, multimedia database retrieval, Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation methods