STAFF AND STUDENTS

• Dr Jesse Sharp - Sustainability in livestock management - Postdoctoral Fellow

• Amalan Mahendran - Experimental design methods for efficient inference in large data settings - PhD student

• Fathima Najimuddin - New statistical methods to design experiments for mechanistic models - PhD student

• Navodya Abirami - Bayesian methods for the design of robust clinical trials - PhD student

• Mark Baxendale - Optimal scheduling of plastics manufacturing - PhD student

• Jack Powers - Optimisation of surgical waiting list management - PhD student

• Anjana Ramanayaka Suduwelikandage - Robust design for Bayesian platform trials - PhD student

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PAST STAFF

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• Dr Roy Yang - Measuring natural capital and determining the benefits of sustainable practices in beef production - Postdoctoral Fellow

• Dr Edgar Santos Fernandez - Spatio-temporal modelling of stream data - Postdoctoral Fellow

• Dr Robert Salomone - Data analytics for a data driven clinical research hub - Senior Research Fellow

• Dr Jacinta Holloway - Bayesian design and precision ecology - Postdoctoral Fellow

• Dr David Warne - Robust design for calibration - Postdoctoral Fellow

• Dr Mohammad Mahfujur Rahman - Machine learning methods for detecting vessels on waterways - Postdoctoral Fellow

• Dr Miranda Mortlock - Green beans prediction - Senior Research Fellow

• Dr Jeff Hsieh - Financial and environmental benchmarking to improve access to finance - Postdoctoral Fellow

• Dr Catherine Leigh - Innovation for data and analytics workflows - Postdoctoral Fellow

• Dr Daniel Kennedy - Queen's Wharf Brisbane: Data exploration - Postdoctoral Fellow

• Dr Shen Liu - Integrated Mining Project - Postdoctoral Fellow

• Dr Matt Falk - Innovating optimal experimental design through Bayesian statistics - Postdoctoral Fellow

• Dr Catriona Ryan - Innovating optimal experimental design through Bayesian statistics - Postdoctoral Fellow

• Dr Su Kang - Model-based adaptive monitoring: Improving the effectiveness of reef monitoring programs - Postdoctoral Fellow

• Nikola Poli - Bayesian analysis of N-of-1 clinical trials - Research Assistant

• Tanya Dodgen - Remote estimation of stream height - Research Assistant

• Grace Heron - Remote estimation of stream height - Research Associate

• Apurva Khemani - Improving the quality of avocados upon delivery into Asia - Research Assistant

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PAST PhD STUDENTS

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1. Dr Dilishiya Kalpani - New Methods in Bayesian Design for Monitoring Submerged Shoals Off the Coast of Western Australia - PhD student (completed)

2. Dr Katie Buchhorn - Bayesian design for sampling anomalous data on river networks - PhD student (completed)

3. Dr Harry Sisley - Large-scale multi-product multi-region supply chain optimisation for fresh seasonal crops under crop rotation - PhD student (completed)

4. Dr Pubudu Thilan - Model-based adaptive monitoring: Improving the effectiveness of reef monitoring programs - PhD student (completed)

5. Dr Matthew Cooper - Bayesian system identification for nonlinear dynamical vehicle models - PhD student (completed)

6. Dr Thamali Meegahage - Mathematical conceptualisation of stormwater pollutant first flush in urban catchments - PhD student (completed)

7. Dr Simone Yasui - Managing the community: Assessing the efficacy of invasive plant control strategies in Australian grassy ecosystems from deserts to dairy country - PhD student (completed)

8. Dr Jagath Gedara - Experimental design for dependent data - PhD student (completed)

9. Dr Mahasen Dehideniya - Optimal Bayesian experimental designs for complex models - PhD student (completed)

10. Dr Gustave Pariartha - Optimisation of climate change adaptation for urban stormwater management - PhD student (completed)

11. Dr Marcela Cespedes - Detection of longitudinal brain atrophy patterns consistent with progression towards Alzheimer's Disease - PhD student (completed)

12. Dr Shovanur Haque - Assessing the accuracy of record matching algorithms in data linkage - PhD student (completed)

13. Dr Sarini Abdullah - Statistical methods for modelling falls and symptoms progression in patients with early stages of Parkinson's disease - PhD student (completed)

14. Dr Ashiq Rasheed - Adaptation of water sensitive urban design to climate change - PhD student (completed)

15. Dr Anupam Chowdhury - A framework for determining rainfall parameters for stormwater quality treatment system design - PhD student (completed)

16. Dr Jeff Hsieh - Bayesian statistical models for understanding health-related outcomes for women screened for breast cancer - PhD student (completed)

17. Dr Yukun Ma - Human health risk of toxic chemical pollutants generated from traffic and land use activities - PhD student (completed)

18. Dr Buddhi Wijesiri - Assessing uncertainty in relation to urban stormwater pollutant processes - PhD student (completed).  Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award.

19. Dr Daniel Subramaniam - Dynamics of nitrogen and suspended solids removal in experimental stormwater biofilters under intermittent wetting and drying - PhD student (completed)

20. Dr Su Kang - Bayesian models for spatio-temporal assessment of disease - PhD student (completed)

21. Dr Pradeep Amarasinghe - Resilience of water supply systems in meeting the challenges posed by climate change and population growth - PhD student (completed)

22. Dr Sri Astuti Thamrin - Bayesian survival analysis using gene expression - PhD student (completed)

23. Dr Chris Drovandi - Bayesian algorithms with applications - PhD student (completed)

24. Dr Lee Kien Foo - Optimal experimental design for nonlinear models with pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic applications - PhD student (completed)

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PAST MASTERS/HONOURS STUDENTS

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1. Reiner van Rooyen - Investment Factors for Investment Strategies for Australian Default Defined-Contribution ('MySuper') Superannuation Members - Masters student (completed)

2. Travis Langton - A novel parallel threshold acceptance algorithm utilising decomposition for the job-shop scheduling problem - Masters student (completed)

3. Zeke Ahern - Exact and approximate optimisation for strategic bus network planning - Masters student (completed)

4. Giuseppe Pilgatti Jordao - An approach for the identification of the go or grow phenotype using ABC methods - Masters student (completed)

5. Boyd Tarlinton - Phylosymbiosis and the microbiome of the native Australian stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria - Masters student (completed)

6. Matsumi Suzudo - Fundamental understanding of the use of mobile phone data for transport applications - Masters student (completed)

7. Thu Huong Le - Statistical analysis of intergenerational transmission in health and human capital: Evidence from longitudinal survey of Australian children - Masters student (completed)

8. Sarah Armatys - Predicting performance in university mathematics units with data mining and regression methods - Honours student (completed)

9. Ricky Ng - Understanding whether plant functional traits are predictors of fitness - Honours student (completed)