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Professor Simon Wilson

Professor (Statistics)

 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

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
Bhattacharya A, Wilson S.P, Soyer R, A Bayesian approach to modeling mortgage default and prepayment, European Journal of Operational Research, 274, (3), 2019, p1112 - 1124, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Pamungkas J, Glasby C.J, Read G.B, Wilson S.P, Costello M.J, Progress and perspectives in the discovery of polychaete worms (Annelida) of the world, Helgoland Marine Research, 73, (1), 2019, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Insua D.R, Ruggeri F, Soyer R, Wilson S, Advances in Bayesian decision making in reliability, European Journal of Operational Research, 2019, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Joshi, C. and Ruggeri, F. and Wilson, S.P., Prior Robustness for Bayesian Implementation of the Fault Tree Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 67, (1), 2018, p170-183 , Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Bhattacharya A, Wilson S.P, Sequential Bayesian inference for static parameters in dynamic state space models, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 127, 2018, p187 - 203, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Joan Cahill, Una Geary, Ewan Douglas, Simon Wilson, Michael Ferreira, Brian Gilbert, User and design requirements and production of evidence: using incident analysis data to (1) inform user scenarios and bow ties, and (2) generate user and design requirements, Cognition, Technology & Work, 20, (1), 2018, p23--47 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Arfianti T, Wilson S, Costello M.J, Progress in the discovery of amphipod crustaceans, PeerJ, 2018, (7), 2018, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
De Persis, C. and Wilson, S., Using the analytic hierarchy process in the assessment of the probability for an explosion to occur during the atmospheric re-entry, 2016, Notes: [cited By 0], Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Wilson S.P, Zerubia J, Unsupervised segmentation of textured satellite and aerial images with Bayesian methods, European Signal Processing Conference, 2015, 2015-March, 2015, Notes: [Export Date: 6 January 2017], Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  URL
De Persis C, Wilson S, IAC-15-A6.2.11 A risk assessment tool for highly energetic break-up events during the atmospheric re-entry, Proceedings of the International Astronautical Congress, IAC, 2015, 3, 2015, pp2059 - 2066, Notes: [Export Date: 6 January 2017], Conference Paper, 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