I am a Senior Lecturer in statistics and data science with varied and interdisciplinary interests in applied and methodological statistics. My research expertise are in methodology and applications of statistical analysis of time series and spatial processes. I investigate natural events that evolve over space and time. Of particular interest are landslides, tropical cyclones, river flow, and diseases. The statistical problems are wide rannging and complex.

Students are our core research strength. Mr. Yihong Mei recently won a national summer research scholarship (https://amsi.org.au/) to investigate differences in characteristic features of polar ice reduction. I am looking for students to compete for PhD scholarships internally and nationally. If you are interested please see below.

Current Interests

My immediate interests fall into the following categories-

Statistical Methodology

Modelling of spatial and temporal covariance structures.
Computationally and statistically efficient models for natural hazards.
Interface of maximum likelihood and interpretable machine learning algorithms for streaming data.

Applications

Algorithms for landslide monitoring.
Methods for detecting structural changes in neurological time series.
Statistical variation in river flow and tropical cyclones.
Spatial variation in tropical ecological process.
Spatial epidemiology for infectious diseases and mental health.