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Professor Simon Wilson

Professor of (Statistics)
LLOYD INSTITUTE

 Simon.Wilson@tcd.ie

 3531896 1759


Biography

Simon Wilson is the Chair of Statistical Uncertainty and Risk at 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, notably ecology and astronomy.

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
External examiner to NUIG Statistics Discipline 2017 - 2020
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
President-elect of the Irish Statistical Association 2020 - 2021
Chair of the Industrial Statistics section of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis 2019 - 2020
Member of the external review panel for undergraduate teaching in Maths, Statistics and Physics at the University of Newcastle September 2021
External examiner to UCD Statistics programmes. 2013 - 2015
Advisor on postgraduate teaching and research programmes, John von Neumann Institute, Vietnam 2018
Member of the review panel for the N8 Centre of Excellence in Computationally Intensive Research (N8 CIR), a consortium of 8 universities in Northern England May 2020
External PhD examiner on 14 PhD theses in Ireland and overseas, including Univ. Cambridge (twice), Brisbane, Nice, Durham. 1995 - present

Languages

Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
Spanish Fluent Medium 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
O'Brien, E.J. and Wilson, S. and Keenahan, J. and Ren, Y., A Bayesian Approach to the Estimation of Road Profile and Bridge Damage from a Fleet Passing Vehicle Measurements, International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics, 24, (4), 2024, Notes: [cited By 4], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Wilson, S., Discussion of specifying prior distributions in reliability applications, Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, 40, (1), 2024, p103 , Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Cunningham, J.A. and Padamsee, M. and Wilson, S. and Costello, M.J., Fungi species description rates confirm high global diversity and suggest half remain unnamed, Frontiers of Biogeography, 16, (2), 2024, Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Hartebrodt, L. and Wilson, S. and Costello, M.J., Progress in the discovery of isopods (Crustacea: Peracarida)â€"is the description rate slowing down?, PeerJ, 9, (e15984), 2023, Notes: [cited By 1], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Siallagan, Z.L. and Sidabalok, C.M. and Islami, M.M. and Mujiono, N. and Wilson, S.P. and Pamungkas, J., Why many Indonesian marine species remain undescribed: a case study using polychaete species discovery, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 71, 2023, p337-365 , Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Wilson, S. and DE PERSIS, C. and Bosque, J.L. and Garcia, I.H., QUANTITATIVE SYSTEM RISK ASSESSMENT FROM INCOMPLETE DATA, 2021, pp1998 , Notes: [cited By 0], Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  DOI
Chaitanya Joshi, Fabrizio Ruggeri and Simon Wilson, Bayesian implementation of the fault tree analysis, Wiley StatsRef: Statistics Reference Online, 2021, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Markus Rao, Rachel Mandelbaum, S. Schmidt and Y. Mao, A composite likelihood approach for inference under photometric redshift uncertainty , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2021, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Antonio Pievatolo, Fabrizio Ruggeri, Refik Soyer and Simon Wilson, Decisions in risk and reliability: an explanatory perspective , Stats, 4, (2), 2021, p228 - 250, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Cahill, J., Cullen P, Anwer S, Wilson, S & Gaynor K. , Pilot Work Related Stress (WRS), Effects on Wellbeing (Including Mental Health) & Coping Methods, The International Journal of Aerospace Psychology, 2021, Notes: [DOI: 10.1080/24721840.2020.1858714 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24721840.2020.1858714?scroll=top&needAccess=true. ], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
  

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Simon Wilson and Cristina De Persis, Pairwise comparison elicitation for probabilistic fault tree analysis, UK Reliability Meeting, Durham University, 1 - 3 April 2019, 2019, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Durham, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Simon Wilson, Photo-z estimation: a review, CMU Seminar Series, Department of Statistics and Data Science, Carnegie Mellon University, 10th November 2017, 2017, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
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

  

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Awards and Honours

Award Date
Fellow of Trinity College Dublin 2002
Visiting scholar, Department of Statistics and Data Science, Carnegie Mellon University 2017 - 2018