Memberships & affiliations
- Associate editor, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation - 2003 to present
- Member, Australian Pattern Recognition Society - 2003
- Member, Centre of Statistics, University of Queensland - 1999 to 2007
Recognition & awards
- Keynote speaker, the 55th session of the International Statistical Institute - 2005
- Australian Research Council Postdoctoral (APD) Fellowship - 2003 to 2005
- University of Queensland Research Scholarship Award - 1999
- University of Queensland Postgraduate Research Scholarship - 1994 to 1996
Current teaching areas
- Statistics and data analysis - Doctor and Health in the Community (DHC) Research Project
Professional services
- Associate editor - Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation
- Programme Committee member - Conference of Computational Statistics COMPSTAT 2010
Research expertise
- Statistical Modelling: The mixture modelling of hospital resource utilization data; the multilevel modelling for the inference of clustered data; the applications of mixture of regression models to mixed feature data
- Pattern Recognition: The clustering of high-dimensional data collected for public health and biomedical purposes; the segmentation of magnetic resonance images using the Markov random fields approach
- Biostatistics: Statistical methodologies and procedures relevant to studies in biomedical and public health problems; the analysis of microarray data using model-based approaches; data analysis of longitudinal studies via generalised linear mixed-effects models
- Survival Analysis: The applications of long-term survivor models to multi-centre clinical trials; the regression analysis of survival data subject to competing risks; the extension of the EM algorithm for censored data
Current research projects
- Mixture models for high-dimensional clustering with applications to brain tumour classification, network intrusion and text classification - Chief Investigator
- Multivariate methods for the analysis of microarray gene-expression data with applications to cancer diagnostics - Chief Investigator
- Environments for Healthy Living - a 25 year cohort study to examine the multi-level social determinants of health in South East Queensland - Chief Investigator
- Comorbidity and multimorbidity patterns of mental health conditions - Chief Investigator
- Career Choices for Australian Medical Students: How, what, where and why - a 15 year longitudinal cohort study to examine the predictive factors that impact on graduates workforce decisions - Associate Investigator
Current grants
- Australian Research Council - Discovery Project Grant (2008 - 2010). Mixture models for high-dimensional clustering with applications to brain tumour classification, network intrusion and text classification - $367,994
- Australian Research Council - Discovery Project Grant (2007 - 2011). Multivariate methods for the analysis of microarray gene-expression data with applications to cancer diagnostics - $895,099
- Griffith Institute Health and Medical Research (GIHMR) (2010). Comorbidity and multimorbidity patterns of mental health conditions - $10,000