Upcoming conference
Alan Welsh, Quan Vu and Emmi Tanaka are involved in the organisation of The Australasian Region Biometrics Conference to be held on 24-28th November 2025 at the National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra.
New member of the faculty
Adam Nie recently joined RSFAS as a post-doc working with Yanrong Yang. Adam did his undergraduate and honours in statistics at UNSW and then his PhD at ANU. After spending a couple of years abroad in Singapore and Hong Kong he has come back to ANU. His research interest includes stochastic processes, random matrices and functional data analysis.
2023 Prize for Excellence in Research
Francis Hui won the Prize for Excellence in Research (Level A-C) - surprise, surprise - for his general academic greatness.
ARC Discovery grant successes
Yanrong Yang received A$353,000 for her project ‘Feature learning for high-dimensional functional time series’. The funding will allow Yanrong to develop new statistical theories and methods for analysing high-dimensional functional time series.
Francis Hui and Alan Welsh received A$388,000 for their project ‘Reliable and accurate statistical solutions for modern, complex data’. Francis and Alan will use the grant to develop novel methods for reliable and accurate statistical modelling of modern, complex correlated and error-prone data sets.
Vice-Chancellor’s Award
Congratulations to Tao Zou for receiving a 2020 Vice-Chancellor’s Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning (Early Career).