
My Expertise
Time to event data analysis; count data analysis; regression analysis; or data analysis in a broad sense.
Field of Research (FoR)
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ABOUT ME
Biography
I am a Senior Lecturer in Statistics at the School of Mathematics and Statistics. My research interest is in the broad area of developing statistical methods to model real-life phenomena and make inferences. I teach courses on statistical methods in applied areas such as social science, marketing, engineering, and epidemiology.
Education
- PhD in Statistics, the University of Hong Kong, 2008
- MSc in Applied Probability &...view more
ABOUT ME
Biography
I am a Senior Lecturer in Statistics at the School of Mathematics and Statistics. My research interest is in the broad area of developing statistical methods to model real-life phenomena and make inferences. I teach courses on statistical methods in applied areas such as social science, marketing, engineering, and epidemiology.
Education
- PhD in Statistics, the University of Hong Kong, 2008
- MSc in Applied Probability & Statistics, Lanzhou University, 2004
- BSc in Mathematics, Lanzhou University, 2001
RESEARCH
Research interests
- Nonparametric and semiparametric statistics
- Point processes and their statistical inference
- Survival Analysis
- Financial Data Modelling
TEACHING & OUTREACH
Courses taught
- MATH3851 - Experimental Design and Categorical Data (current)
- MATH3831 - Statistical Methods for Social and Market Research (current)
- MATH5835 - Stochastic Processes
- MATH3821 - Statistical Modelling and Computing
- MATH2099 - Mathematics 2B -- Statistics Stream
- MATH2859 - Probability, Statistics and Information
Professional affiliations and service positions
- Associated Editor for Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (2019-2021)
- Statistics Honours Coordinator, School of Mathematics and Statistics, UNSW (2013-2018)
- Member, Statistical Society of Australia
- Member, American Statistical Association
- Councilor, Statistical Society of Australia NSW Branch (2012-2013)
- Assistant Secretary & Coordinator of SSAI AGR seminars, Statistical Society of Australia NSW Branch (2013)
My Research Supervision
Supervision keywords
Areas of supervision
- Computational Statistics;
- Event sequence data analysis;
- Hidden Markov Models and State-Space Models and their inference and applications;
- Financial data analysis and modelling;
- Point processes and their inference and applications;
- Semi- and non-parametric inference.
Currently supervising
- Jeffrey Kwan (PhD, 2018 S2 --): Statistical Inference for some extended Hawkes processes
- Zhe Han (MRes, 2020 T1 --, with Tom Stindl): Point process models for earthquake modelling
- Vincent Minutolo (Honours, 2020, with Jakub Stoklosa): Open population size estimation from capture-recapture data
- Hanwen Xuan (Honours, 2020): Joint modelling of intraday trade durations and price changes
Location
University of New South Wales
Sydney NSW 2052
The Red Centre
Room 1031
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