Research leaders
A research leader is a University of Sydney affiliated member of the Sydney Precision Data Science Centre who either leads a program of research that in large part uses precision data science techniques captured by at least one of the three research clusters or is using precision data science techniques to addresses problems within one of our data-discovery themes.
A proportion of a research leader’s work must align with the SPDS Centre’s research strategy. All research leaders of the Sydney Precision Data Science Centre are committed to identifying the Centre in their selected research output.
To join the Centre as a research leader, please email [email protected] expressing your interest and confirming you meet the criteria. The Centre’s Executive Committee reviews all expressions of interest.
Director – Prof Jean Yang
Research leaders
- Professor Jean Yang – Professor School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Professor Jinman Kim – Professor School of Computer Science.
- Professor Armando Teixeira-Pinto – Professor School of Public Health.
- Professor Mary Myerscough – Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Professor Katherine Belov – Professor, School of Life and Environmental Sciences.
- Professor Samuel Mueller – Professor, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Macquarie University.
- Professor Carolyn Hogg – Professor, School of Life and Environmental Sciences.
- Associate Professor John Ormerod – Associate Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Associate Professor Pengyi Yang – Associate Professor and NHMRC Investigator, School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Associate Professor Ellis Patrick – Associate Professor and DECRA Fellow, School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Associate Professor Alistair Senior – Associate Professor, School of Life and Environmental Sciences.
- Associate Professor Rachel Wang – Associate Professor and DECRA Fellow, School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Associate Professor Garth Tarr – Associate Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Associate Professor Tongliang Liu – Associate Professor, School of Computer Science.
- Associate Professor Heejung Shim – Associate Professor, Snow Vision Accelerator.
- Dr. Lake-Ee Quek – Research Fellow, Charles Perkins Centre.
- Dr Clara Grazian – Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Dr Shila Ghazanfar – Lecturer and DECRA Fellow, School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Dr Wei Zhang – Lecturer, School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Dr Yue Cao – Lecturer, School of Medical Sciences.
- Dr Jie Kang – Lecturer, School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Dr Andy Tran – Lecturer, School of Mathematics and Statistics.
Research associates and professional staff
- Xiaoya Sun, Research Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Angel Liang, Research Associate, The Westmead Institute.
- Dr Xiangnan Xu, Research Associate, Data Science Hub and School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Dr Yue Cao, Research Associate, Data Science Hub and School of Medical Sciences.
- Dr Elijah Willie, Research Associate, Data Science Hub and School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Dr Jie Kang, Research Associate, Data Science Hub and School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Dr Jane Xue – Research Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics and School of Computer Science.
- Dr Lijia Yu – Research Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Dr Beilei Bian – Research Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Dr Wenze Ding – Research Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Matt Francis – Research Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Dr Chunlei Liu – Research Associate, Children’s Medical Research Institute.
- Dr Sharon Long – Research Associate, Children’s Medical Research Institute.
- Dr Pratibha Panwar – Research Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Dr Akira Nguyen Shaw – Research Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics and Sydney Medical School.
- Dr Dario Strebenac – Research Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Ms Marni Torkel – Research Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Joshua Vescovi – Research Associate, Northern Clinical School.
- Dr Fei Yang – Research Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics and Macquarie University.
- Dr Katie Zyner – Research Associate, Children’s Medical Research Institute.
- Amber Colhoun – Program Manager, School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Miranda Luo – Senior Project Officer, School of Mathematics and Statistics.
Previous research leaders
- Dr Qiuzhuang Sun – Lecturer, School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Dr Lei Bi – Research Fellow, School of Computer Science.
Students
- Yuzhu Tian – PhD student (Since 2026); Supervised by Pengyi Yang.
- Sichan Ding – PhD student (Since 2026); Supervised by Pengyi Yang and Bing Zhou.
- Samuel Jolley – PhD student (Since 2026); Supervised by Pengyi Yang and Shila Ghazanfar.
- Pranav Kataria – PhD student (Since 2026); Supervised by Pengyi Yang.
- Anna Fredericks – PhD student (Since 2026); Supervised by Pengyi Yang and Katie Zyner.
- Chang Liu – PhD student (Since 2026); Supervised by Garth Tarr.
- Alex Oo – PhD student (Since 2026); Supervised by Garth Tarr.
- Hao Xu – PhD student (Since 2026); Supervised by Garth Tarr and Qiuzhuang Sun.
- Shreya Rao – PhD student (Since 2026); Supervised by Ellis Patrick.
- Elyna Lin – PhD student (Since 2026); Supervised by Ellis Patrick and Harry Robertson.
- Alistair Gu – PhD student (Since2026); Supervised by Clara Grazian.
- Harry Robertson – PhD student (Since 2022); Supervised by Ellis Patrick and Natasha Rogers.
- Chuhan Wang – PhD student (Since 2022); Supervised by Jinman Kim and Jean Yang.
- Daniel Kim – PhD student (Since 2022); Supervised by Pengyi Yang and Jean Yang.
- Elijah Willie – PhD student (Since 2022); Supervised by Ellis Patrick and Pengyi Yang.
- Christopher Barker – PhD student (Since 2022); Supervised by Alistair Senior and Steve Simpson.
- Farhan Ameen – PhD student (since 2023); Supervised by Ellis Patrick.
- Manoj Wagle – PhD student (Since 2023); Supervised by Pengyi Yang and Ellis Patrick.
- Dario Draca – PhD student (Since 2023); Supervised by John Ormerod and Minh-Ngoc Tran.
- Rajan Shankar – PhD student (Since 2024); Supervised by Garth Tarr.
- Maximilian Woollard – PhD student (Since 2024); Supervised by Linh Nghiem and Shila Ghazanfar.
- Hao Chen – PhD student (Since 2024); Supervised by Clara Grazian and Michael Stewart.
- Martin Huang – PhD student (Since 2024); Supervised by Garth Tarr and John Ormerod.
- Rojashree Jayakumar – PhD student (Since 2024); Supervised by Shila Ghazanfar and Jean Yang.
- Angel Guan – PhD student (Since 2025); Supervised by Shila Ghazanfar, Camelia Quek and James Wilmott.
- James Gabor – PhD student (Since 2024); Supervised by Clara Grazian.
- Chloe Yao – MPhil (Since 2025); Supervised by Germaine Wong and Jean Yang.
- Joshua Vescovi – MPhil (Since 2025); Supervised by Jean Yang and Gemma Figtree.
- Anne Phan – Masters student (since 2025); Supervised by Jinman Kim and Jean Yang.
- Xueru Wang – Masters student (Since 2024); Supervised by Garth Tarr.
- Yuru Zhao – Masters student (Since 2024); Supervised by Garth Tarr.
- Cabiria Liang – PhD student (Since 2025); Supervised by Jean Yang and Yue Cao.
- Raphael Mauron – PhD student (Since 2025); Supervised by Shila Ghazanfar and Joakim Lundeberg.
- Qinlin Gu – PhD student (Since 2025); Supervised by Shila Ghazanfar and Joakim Lundeberg.
- Kristy Nguyen – PhD student (Since 2025); Supervised by Jean Yang and Germaine Wong.
- Yuxin Zhao – PhD student (Since 2025); Supervised by Qiuzhuang Sun and Linh Nghiem.
- Andrew Zhang – PhD student (Since 2025); Supervised by Jinman Kim and Jean Yang.
- Andrew Anggara, Honours student; Supervised by Ellis Patrick.
- Mai Minh, Honours student; Supervised by Ellis Patrick.
- Jenny Yuan, Honours student; Supervised by Ellis Patrick.
- Lily Duck, Honours student; Supervised by Garth Tarr.
- Aniket Shinha, Honours student; Supervised by Jean Yang and Germaine Wong.
- John Giuliano, Honours student; Supervised by Jean Yang and Heejung Shim.
- Kimi Shao, Honours student; Supervised by Jean Yang and Xiangnan Xu.
- Yixiang Chen, Honours student; Supervised by Jean Yang and Andy Tran.
- Anina Shu, Honours student; Supervised by Jean Yang and Jinman Kim.
- Ethan Han, Honours student ; Supervised by Jinman Kim and Jean Yang.
- Aiden Jin, Honours student; Supervised by Giselle Yeo and Shila Ghazanfar.
Affiliates
- Dr. Michael Stewart – Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney
- Dr Linh Nghiem – Lecturer, School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- A. Prof. Agus Salim – Associate Professor In Biostatistics, University of Melbourne
- Heeva Baharlou
Alumni
- Caitlin Andrews, PhD student (2026) supervised Alistair Senior and David Raubenheimer.
- Jenny Yuan, Honours student (2025) supervised by Ellis Patrick.
- Xiaoying Wei, Honours student (2025) supervised by Clara Grazian.
- Chang Liu, Honours student (2025) supervised by Garth Tarr.
- Rashika Agarwal, Honours student (2025) supervised by Shila Ghazanfar and Rachel Wang.
- Yuru Zhao, Masters student (2025) supervised by Garth Tarr.
- Marie Aguanta, Honours student (2025) supervised by Ellis Patrick.
- Sadiq Dohadwalla, Honours student (2025) supervised by Ellis Patrick.
- Liam Skender, Honours student (2025) supervised by Shila Ghazanfar.
- Mingyu Li, Honours student (2025) supervised by Jean Yang.
- Betty Zhao, Masters student (2025) supervised by Garth Tarr.
- Nathan Inkiriwang, Masters student (2025) supervised by Garth Tarr.
- Flynn Entwistle, Research Associate (2025).
- Andrew Sawyer, Research Associate (2025).
- Jeyson Chuah, Honours student (2025) supervised by Jinman Kim.
- Elyna Lin, Honours student (2025) supervised by Ellis Patrick and Harry Robertson.
- Thomas Lloyd, Honours student (2025) supervised by Jean Yang.
- Mu-Wei Chung, Honours student (2025) supervised by Shila Ghazanfar.
- Jackson Zhou, PhD student (Since 2025) supervised by John Ormerod.
- Alex Qin, Research Associate (2025).
- Lijia Yu, PhD Student (2025) supervised by Pengyi Yang and Jean Yang.
- Carissa Chen, PhD Student (2025) supervised by Pengyi Yang and Patrick Tam.
- Andy Tran, PhD Student (2025) supervised by John Ormerod and Jean Yang.
- Dr Mohammed Javad Davoudabad, Research associate (2024).
- Shreya Rao, Honours Student (2024) supervised by Ellis Patrick.
- Dr Helen Fu, Research associate (2024).
- Adam Chan, PhD student (2024) supervised by Jean Yang and Ellis Patrick.
- Mengqian Qu, Honours student (2024) supervised by Shila Ghazanfar.
- Joshua Pople, Honours student (2024) supervised by Ellis Patrick.
- Guan Gui, Honours student (2024) supervised by Shila Ghazanfar.
- Cabiria Liang, Honours student (2024) supervised by Jean Yang.
- Sanghyun Kim, Honours student (2024) supervised by Jean Yang.
- Di Xiao, PhD student (2024) supervised by Pengyi Yang and Patrick Tam.
- Peng Su, PhD Student (2023) supervised by Samuel Mueller and Garth Tarr.
- Hao Huang, Masters student (2023) supervised by Pengyi Yang.
- Dr Sarat Babu Moka, Research associate (2023).
- Dr Dantong Zhu, Research associate (2023).
- Yunwei Zhang, PhD student (2023) supervised by Samuel Mueller and Jean Yang.
- Daniel Mechtersheimer, Honours student (2023) supervised by Jean Yang.
- Dr Yingxin Lin, Research associate (2023).
- Dr Hani Kim, Research associate (2023).
- Dr Amarinder Thind, Research associate (2023).
- Xiangnan Xu, PhD student (2022) supervised by Jean Yang and Samuel Mueller.
- Thomas Geddes, PhD student (2022) supervised by Pengyi Yang and David James.
- Eugene Slaughter, Research associate (2022).
- Alexander Nicholls, Honours student (2022) supervised by Ellis Patrick.
- Sourish Iyengar, Honours student (2022) supervised by Ellis Patrick.
- Andy Wang, PhD student (2022) supervised by Jean Yang and Helen Rizos.
- Connor Smith, PhD student (2022) supervised by Samuel Mueller.
- Taiyun Kim, PhD student (2022) supervised by Pengyi Yang and Jean Yang.
- Archibald Fox, Honours student (2022) supervised by Jean Yang and Tara Murphy.
- Richard Alessi, Honours student (2022) supervised by Garth Tarr.
- Shashwati Dutta, Research associate (2021).
- Alan Burzevski, Honours student (2021) supervised by Ellis Patrick.
- Zac D’Agostino, Honours student (2021) supervised by Jean Yang.
- Andrew Lee, Honours student (2021) supervised by Jean Yang and Rachel Wang.
- Allon Chen, Honours student (2021) supervised by Ellis Patrick.
- Priscilla Chen, Honours student (2020) supervised by Garth Tarr.
- Michael Lin, Honours student (2020) supervised by Pengyi Yang.
- Thomas Ye, Honours student (2020) supervised by Ellis Patrick.
- Anne Hu, Honours student (2020) supervised by Jean Yang.
- Mengbo Li, Masters student (2020) supervised by Jean Yang.
- Kevin Wang, PhD student (2020) supervised by Jean Yang, Samuel Mueller and Garth Tarr.
- Sarah Romanes, PhD student (2019) supervised by John Ormerod and Jean Yang.
- Weichang Yu, PhD student (2019) supervised by John Ormerod.
- Vinita Deshpande, PhD student (2019) supervised by Jean Yang and David James.
- Mark Greenaway, PhD student (2018) supervised by John Ormerod.
- Eva Liu, Honours student (2018) supervised by Samuel Mueller.
- Irene Chen, Research associate (2018).
- Nelson Ma, Honours student (2017) supervised by Jean Yang and Michael Stewart.
- Kate Brewer, Honours student (2017) supervised by Ellis Patrick.
- Tim Gibson, Honours student (2017) supervised by Samuel Mueller.
- Chendong Ma, Honours student (2016) supervised by Jean Yang and Pengyi Yang.
- Kaushala Jayawardana, PhD student (2015) supervised by Jean Yang and Samuel Mueller.
- Froilan Samonte, Honours student (2014) supervised by Jean Yang and John Ormerod.
- Narelle Quinon, Honours student (2013) supervised by Jean Yang.
- Rebecca Barter, Honours student (2013) supervised by Jean Yang.
- Anna Campain, PhD student (2010) supervised by Jean Yang and Samuel Mueller.