About Me
- Postdoctoral Fellow (Nov. 2020-Present) — Queensland University of Technology, Centre for Data Science
- ACEMS Research Fellow (Jan. 2019 -Oct. 2020) — UNSW Sydney
- ACEMS Research Fellow (Aug.2018 – Jan. 2019) [Short Contract] — The University of Queensland
- PhD Candidate in Statistics (2015-2018) — The University of Queensland.
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- Advisor: Professor Dirk Kroese | Thesis: Advances in Monte Carlo Methodology
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For more details, please see my recent CV.
Research Interests
My research, generally speaking, lies at the intersection of computational statistics and probabilistic machine learning. I am broadly interested in these fields, but more specifically am interested in novel methodological methods and theory relating
- Inference Algorithms (e.g., Markov Chain Monte Carlo, Sequential Monte Carlo, and Variational Methods)
- Kernelized Stein Discrepencies
- Deep Generative Models (e.g., Normalizing Flows and Variational Autoencoders)
- Variance Reduction and Unbiased Estimation in Monte Carlo Simulation
Research Output
Pipeline
Hodgkinson, L., Salomone, R., and Roosta, F. (2020), The reproducing Stein kernel approach for post-hoc corrected sampling. arXiv: 2001.09266
Salomone, R., South, L.F., Drovandi, C.C., and Kroese, D.P. (2018), Unbiased and Consistent Nested Sampling via Sequential Monte Carlo. arXiv:1805.03924
Publications
Salomone R., Quiroz, M., Kohn, R., Villani, M., and Tran, M.N. (2020), Spectral Subsampling MCMC for Stationary Time Series. Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2020. [Read Online]
Hodgkinson, L., Salomone,R., and Roosta, F. (2020), Implicit Langevin Algorithms for Sampling From Log-concave Densities. Accepted at the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), with minor revision. arxiv:1903.12322
Botev, Z.I., Salomone, R., Mackinlay, D. (2019), Fast and accurate computation of the distribution of sums of dependent log-normals, Annals of Operations Research 280 (1), 19-46. [Read Online]
Laub, P.J., Salomone, R., Botev, Z.I. (2019), Monte Carlo estimation of the density of the sum of dependent random variables, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation 161, 23-31.
Salomone, R., Vaisman, R., and Kroese, D.P. (2016). Estimating the Number of Vertices in Convex Polytopes. Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Operations Research and Statistics, ORS 2016. [Read Online]
Selected Presentations
- Monte Carlo Secrets Revealed
- Spectral Subsampling for Stationary Time Series (ICML 2020)
- A Tutorial on Reproducing Stein Kernels
- Slides and Jupyter Notebook for my three-hour workshop on Automatic Differentiation.