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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
 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, 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
Quirós A, Wilson S.P, Diez R.M, Solana A.B, Hernández Tamames J.A, Brain activity detection by estimating the signal-to-noise ratio of fMRI time series using dynamic linear models, Digital Signal Processing, 2015, Journal Article, IN_PRESS  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL
OBrien E.J, Schmidt F, Hajializadeh D, Zhou X.-Y, Enright B, Caprani C.C, Wilson S, Sheils E, A review of probabilistic methods of assessment of load effects in bridges, Structural Safety, 53, 2015, p44 - 56, Notes: [Export Date: 28 August 2015], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Costello M.J, Lane M, Wilson S, Houlding B, Factors influencing when species are first named and estimating global species richness, Global Ecology and Conservation, 4, 2015, p243 - 254, Notes: [Export Date: 28 August 2015], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL
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  DOI
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, 39, (3), 2014, p395-399 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Mai, T., Ghosh, B., Wilson, S. , Short-term traffic flow forecasting with A-SVARMA, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineering-Transport, 167, (4), 2013, p232 - 239, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
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
  

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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