Sylvain Sardy

Université de Genève

Section de mathématiques

2-4 rue du Lièvre

CH-1211 Genève 4

Switzerland

tel. ++ 41 / 22 / 379 11 42

fax ++ 41 / 22 / 379 11 76

e-mail: Sylvain.Sardy@unige.ch

Info:

• I am looking for a Ph.D. student
• I have many Master research projects, applied and theoretical, in statistics and optimisation: come talk to me
• Ecole doctorale CUSO de statistique et probabilités appliquées: prochaine conférence au Diablerets du 5 au 8 février 2012

• [11M000][11M001] Mathématiques Générales A et B
• [14M078] Régression paramétrique et nonparamétrique
• [14M065] Statistique et optimisation
• [15M760] Séminaire de probabilités et statistique avec Yvan Velenik

• Smooth blockwise iterative thresholding: a smooth fixed point estimator based on the likelihood's block gradient (2011), Sardy, S.
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• Extreme-quantile tracking for financial time series, Journal of Econometrics to appear, Chavez-Demoulin, V., Embrechts, P. and Sardy, S. (2012)
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• Isotone additive latent variable models, Statistics and Computing, Vol.22, No.2, p.647-659, Sardy, S. and Victoria-Feser, M.-P. (2012)
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• l₁-Penalized Likelihood Smoothing and Segmentation of Volatility Processes allowing for Abrupt Changes, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics to appear, Neto, D., Sardy, S. and Tseng, P. (2011)
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• Density estimation by total variation penalized likelihood driven by the sparsity l₁ information criterion, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, Vol.37, No.2, p.321-337, Sardy, S. and Tseng, P. (2010)
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• Adaptive Posterior Mode Estimation of a Sparse Sequence for Model Selection, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, Vol.36, No.4, p.577-601, Sardy, S. (2009)
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• On the Practice of Rescaling Covariates, International Statistical Review, Vol.76, No.2, p. 285-297, Sardy, S. (2008)
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• Discussion of Ramsay, Hooker, Campbell and Cao, Parameter estimation for differential equations: a generalized smoothing approach, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, Vol.69, p.788-789, Sardy, S. (2007)
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• Resampling Variance Estimation in Surveys with Missing Data, Journal of Official Statistics, Vol.23, p. 371-386, Davison, A.C., Sardy, S. (2007)
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• Méthodes de rééchantillonnage pour l'estimation de variance en sondage, Journal de la société française de Statistique, vol. 147, no3, pp. 3-32, Davison, A.C., Sardy, S. (2006)
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• Assessment and analysis of mechanical allodynia-like behavior induced by spared nerve injury (SNI) in the mouse, Pain, Bourquin, A.F., Suveges, M., Pertin, M., Gilliard, N., Sardy, S., Davison, A.C., Spahn, D.R., Decosterd, I. (2005)
• On the statistical analysis of smoothing by maximizing dirty Markov random field posterior distributions, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Theory and Methods, Vol.99, p.191-204, Sardy, S., Tseng, P. (2004)
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• AMlet, RAMlet and GAMlet: Automatic Nonlinear Fitting of Additive Model, Robust and Generalized with Wavelets, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Vol.13, p.283-309, Sardy, S., Tseng, P. (2004)
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• Automatic Smoothing with Wavelets for a Wide Class of Distributions, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Vol.13, p.399-421, Sardy, S., Antoniadis, A., Tseng, P. (2004)
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• Natural variation in baseline data - when do we call a new sample "resistant"?, Pest Management Science, Vol.58, p.959-963, Schaub, L., Sardy, S., Capkun, G. (2002)
• A comparison between L₁ Markov random field-based and wavelet-based estimators, in Statistical Data Analysis Based on the L₁-Norm and Related Methods, edited by Y.Dodge, Boston: Birkhaeuser, p.395-403, Sardy, S., Bilat, C., Tseng, P., Chavez-Demoulin, V. (2002)
• WaveStrapping Time Series: Adaptive Wavelet-Based Bootstrapping, in Nonlinear and Nonstationary Signal Processing, edited by W. J. Fitzgerald, R. L. Smith, A. T. Walden and P. C. Young, Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, p.442-471, Percival, D.B., Sardy, S., Davison A.C. (2001)
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• Robust Wavelet Denoising, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol.49, p.1146-1152, Sardy, S., Tseng, P., Bruce, A. (2001)
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• The partial scatterplot matrix, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Vol.9, p.750-758, Davison, A.C., Sardy, S. (2000)
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• Block Coordinate Relaxation Methods for Nonparametric Wavelet Denoising, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Vol.9, p.361-379, Sardy, S., Bruce, A., Tseng, P. (2000)
• Minimax threshold for denoising complex signals with Waveshrink, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol.48, p.1023-1028, Sardy, S. (2000)
• Wavelet Denoising for Unequally Spaced Data Statistics and Computing, Vol.9, p.65-75, Sardy, S., Percival, D.B., Bruce, A.G., Gao, H-Y., Stuetzle, W. (1999)
• Triogram Models, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Theory and Methods, Vol.93, p.101-119, Hansen, M., Kooperberg, C., Sardy, S. (1998)

• Nonlinear estimators for the detection of small and rare features, Proceedings of PHYSTAT 2011, CERN Geneva, Sardy, S. (2011)
• Resampling-based variance estimation in DACSEIS with application to the Swiss Household Budget Survey, Proceedings of the European Conference on Quality and Methodology in Official Statistics (Q2004), Mainz, Davison, A.C., Sardy, S. (2004)
• Resampling-based variance estimation in DACSEIS, Proceedings of the ISI: Data quality in complex surveys, Berlin, Davison, A.C., Sardy, S. (2003)
• Natural variation in baseline data - when do we call a new sample "resistant"?, Proceedings of the 77th Annual Western Orchard Pest and Disease Management Conference, Portland, Schaub, L., Sardy, S., Capkun, G. (2003)
• Block coordinate relaxation methods for nonparametric signal denoising Wavelet Applications, Proceedings of the SPIE, Orlando, Bruce, A., Sardy, S., Tseng, P. (1998)

• Marc Brodard, ingénieur mathématicien dans une entreprise suisse
• Stéphanie Wodtli-Rohr, Master student at EPFL
• Guillaume Courteheuse, teacher Geneva highschool
• Caroline Giacobino, first at Fundo, now Ph.D. student with me
• Paul Expert, Ph.D. student at Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Imperial College
• Alpha Amadou Barry

Paul Tseng, collaborator and friend

• Back-country skiing on the Jura with friends
• Telemark skiing film. Cameraman: David Neto.
• Mountain biking around Charance near Gap with my bro Jérôme. Sponsorisés par Tracks.