Tâm Le Minh

I am currently a postdoctoral research fellow in statistical modelling at Griffith University in Australia.

My scientific interests lie in model-based statistical methods for addressing questions in life sciences, particularly related to the organization of ecological communities.

Methodological interests include:

• Random graph models and network inference
• Latent variable models
• Mixture models and model-based clustering
• Bayesian nonparametric models
• Models for structured and dependent data

Before, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Statify team of Inria Grenoble Rhône-Alpes, working with Julyan Arbel and Florence Forbes. In November 2023, I have defended my PhD in Applied Mathematics at Université Paris-Saclay under the supervision of Stéphane Robin, Sophie Donnet and François Massol. Before that, I received a Master in Applied Mathematics from Institut Polytechnique de Paris, after completing the joint Mathematics for Life Sciences program with Université Paris-Saclay. In a past life, I studied aeronautics and aviation engineering and worked as a software engineer.

News

• Jan 14, 2026. My paper Characterization of the asymptotic behavior of U-statistics on row-column exchangeable matrices has been accepted in Information and Inference.
• Jan 7, 2026. I have moved to Brisbane, Australia to start a position as a Research Fellow at Griffith University. Wish me good luck.
• Sep 15–Nov 14, 2025. I am visiting the Predictive Community Ecology group at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
• Jun 23–27, 2025. Poster presentation at the International Conference on Bayesian Nonparametrics in Los Angeles, United States.
• Jun 2, 2025. Our paper Hoeffding-type decomposition for U-statistics on bipartite networks has been accepted in the Electronic Journal of Statistics.
• Jan 8, 2025. New preprint on arXiv: Natural variational annealing for multimodal optimization.

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