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Post-Doctoral Fellows

Mr Joshua Bon
ARC Discovery Project DP200102101
Queensland University of Technology

Dr Matthew Sutton
Centre for Data Science
Queensland University of Technology

PhD Students

Mitchell O'Sullivan (Principal Supervisor)
Queensland University of Technology 

Xiaoyu Wang (Principal Supervisor)
Queensland University of Technology 

Imke Botha (Principal Supervisor) 
Queensland University of Technology 

Joshua Bon (Principal Supervisor) -- under external examination
Queensland University of Technology
Advances in Sequential Monte Carlo Methods


Laurence Davies (Principal Supervisor)
Queensland University of Technology 

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Dan Li (Co-supervisor)
Queensland University of Technology 

Mohammad Davoudabadi (Co-supervisor) -- under external examination
Queensland University of Technology

Bayesian model selection and inference for field studies of soil carbon cycling


Hamish Murray (Co-supervisor)
Queensland University of Technology

Sarah Vollert 
(Co-supervisor)
Queensland University of Technology

masters Students

Ryan Kelly (Principal Supervisor) ​-- under external examination
Queensland University of Technology

Adam Bretherton 
(Principal Supervisor)
​Queensland University of Technology

Honours Students


Past post-doctoral fellows


Dr Robert Salomone
Centre for Data Science
Queensland University of Technology

Dr Markus Hainy

Queensland University of Technology and Johannes Kepler University (Linz, Austria)

Efficient Methods for ABC Design

Completed PhD Students

Dr Shuwen Hu (Co-supervisor)
Queensland University of Technology
Statistical modeling and machine learning in longitudinal data analysis (2021) [pdf]

Dr Ziwen An (Principal Supervisor) 
Queensland University of Technology
Contributions to Bayesian Synthetic Likelihood (2020) [pdf]

Dr Jagath Gedara (Co-supervisor)
Queensland University of Technology
Experimental Design for Dependent Data (2020) [pdf]

Dr Leah South (Principal Supervisor) 
Queensland University of Technology (Outstanding Thesis Award awarded to top 5% University wide)
Honourable Mention for the 2020 ISBA Savage Award (Theory and Methods)

Contributions to computational Bayesian statistics (2019) [pdf]

Dr David Borg (Co-supervisor) 
Queensland University of Technology
The perception of effort, training load, and exercise performance in the heat​ (2019)
[pdf]

Dr Mahasen Dehideniya (Co-supervisor)
Queensland University of Technology
Optimal Bayesian Experimental Designs for Complex Models (2019)
[pdf]

Dr Matthew Sutton (Co-supervisor) 
Queensland University of Technology
Variable Selection and Dimension Reduction for Structured Large Datasets 
(2019) [pdf]

Dr Melanie Robertson-Dean  (Co-supervisor)
Queensland University of Technology
Transformed Statistical Distributions with Applications to Financial Data and Modelling of Financial Systems 
(2019) [pdf]

​Dr Marcela Cespedes (Co-supervisor)
Queensland University of Technology
Detection of longitudinal brain atrophy patterns consistent with progression towards Alzheimer's Disease [pdf] (2018)

Dr Pedro Higuera (Co-supervisor)
University of Queensland
A Bayesian framework for sampling the feasible kinetic behavior of metabolic reaction networks [link] (2018)

Dr Brenda Vo (Principal Supervisor)
Queensland University of Technology
Novel Likelihood-Free Bayesian Parameter Estimation Methods for Stochastic Models of Collective Cell Spreading
[pdf]

Dr Elizabeth Ryan (Co-supervisor)
Queensland University of Technology
Innovative Bayesian Statistics for Enhanced Decision Making for Pharmaceutical Drug Development
[pdf]

Dr James McKeone (Co-supervisor)
Queensland University of Technology
Bayesian P-splines with a multiplicative term in EMG trace data
[pdf]

Completed MASTERS Students

Michael Carr  (Principal Supervisor) 
Estimating parameters of a stochastic cell invasion model with Fluorescent cell cycle labelling using approximate Bayesian computation (2021) [pdf]
Queensland University of Technology

​Lachlan Griffin (Principal Supervisor) 
A novel Bayesian state-space model for estimating mosquito populations (2021) [pdf]
Queensland University of Technology

Hayden Moffat (Principal Supervisor) 
Cost Effective Functional Response Experiments via Sequential Design (2021) [pdf]
Queensland University of Technology

Jacob Priddle (Principal Supervisor)
Queensland University of Technology
Efficient and Flexible Bayesian Synthetic Likelihood via Transformations (2020) [pdf]

Imke Botha
 (Principal Supervisor)
Queensland University of Technology
Bayesian Inference for Stochastic Differential Equation Mixed Effects Models (2020) [pdf]

Dan Li (Principal Supervisor) 
Queensland University of Technology
Efficient Bayesian estimation for GARCH-type models via sequential Monte Carlo (2020) [pdf]

Joshua Bon (External Supervisor)
University of Western Australia
Stochastic Nets and Bayesian Regularisation from Constraints (2018)

Completed Honours Students

Sarah Vollert (Co-supervisor)
Using Bayesian Analysis of Sloppiness to Inform Coral Reef Physiology Modelling
Queensland University of Technology

Tanika Walker (Co-supervisor)
Bayesian Optimisation for Turbine Modelling
Queensland University of Technology

Lachlan Kuhr (Principal Supervisor)
High Performance Sequential Monte Carlo for Raman Spectroscopy Analysis
Queensland University of Technology

Mitchell O'Sullivan ​(Principal Supervisor)
Queensland University of Technology
Extensions to adaptive sequential Monte Carlo algorithms for approximate Bayesian computation


Michael Mumford (Principal Supervisor)
Queensland University of Technology
Generalised Linear Mixed Models in Agriculture - A Bayesian Approach

Roy McCutchan (Principal Supervisor)
Queensland University of Technology
SMC2 using the alive particle filter

Sarah Armatys (Principal Supervisor)
Queensland University of Technology
Predicting Performance in University Mathematics Units with Data Mining and Regression Methods
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