2026
Bayes on the Beach 2026 at University of Wollongong, organised by the Bayesian Research & Applications Group (BRAG) in collaboration with the University of Wollongong and QUT Centre for Data Science (CDS); the Australasian chapter of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA); the Statistical Society of Australia, (SSA) Bayesian Statistics Section; and Queensland University of Technology (QUT).
2025
Computational Statistics in Data Science Workshop, organised by the Centre for Environmental Informatics (CEI), NIASRA.
The Workshop consists of a series of talks by CEI, NIASRA researchers and Keynote Speaker, Howard Bondell.
2025 Data Science and Statistics Lecture, "Data and decision-making: Informative missingness, recommender systems, and personalised medicine" - Howard Bondell (Professor of Statistical Data Science and Head of the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne)
2024
2024 Data Science and Statistics Lecture, "The Ship Has Sailed: Where Should we Steer It? (Climate Adaptation needs Uncertainty Quantification)" - Christopher K. Wikle (Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Statistics at the University of Missouri (MU), with additional appointments in Soil, Environmental and Atmospheric Sciences and the Truman School of Public Affairs)
2023
2023 Data Science and Statistics Lecture, "Data science for public health: Risk mapping of Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest and the optimal deployment of defibrillators" - Antonietta Mira (Professor of Statistics and Director of the Data Science Lab at Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland and Professor of Statistics at Insubria University, Como, Italy)
2022
2022 Statistical Science Lecturer, "On Learning-Aware Mechanism Design" - Michael I. Jordan (Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor in Dept of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and Professor of Statistics, UC Berkeley, USA)
2021
2021 Statistical Science Lecturer, "Saving Medical Dollars, Trillions at a Time: A Statistical Perspective" - Scott L. Zeger (John C. Malone Professor of Biostatistics and Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA)
2020
2020 Statistical Science Lecture, "Zen and the Art of Bayesian Geology/Hydrology/Ecology" - Professor Sally Cripps (University of Sydney, Australia)
2019
Short course: Spatio-Temporal Statistics with R, presented by Noel Cressie and Andrew Zammit-Mangion (UOW Sydney Campus, NSW)
2019 Statistical Science Lecture, "A Tale of Two Parasites: statistical science to support disease control programmes in Africa" – Distinguished Professor Peter Diggle (Lancaster University and Health Data Research, UK)
Invited Session: Monte Carlo Methods in Environmental Applications, featuring presentations from CEI members Noel Cressie, Michael Bertolacci, and Laura Cartwright (MCM2019, UTS Business School, NSW)
2018
Short course: Spatio-Temporal Statistics with R, presented by Andrew Zammit-Mangion (ACEMS, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD)
2018 Statistical Science Lecture, "Surfing Gravitational Waves: Black holes and Bayesian nonparametrics" – Renate Meyer (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
2017
Short course: Spatio-Temporal Modelling with R, presented by Andrew Zammit-Mangion (AIMS, Townsville, QLD)
2015
Short course: Spatio-Temporal Statistical Modelling, presented by Noel Cressie and Andrew Zammit-Mangion (UOW Sydney Campus, NSW)
2014
Short course: Spatio-Temporal Statistical Modelling, presented by Peter J. Diggle (Lancaster University, UK) and Noel A. Cressie (NIASRA, UOW)
Bao Anh Vu - Research Fellow, 2025
Pratik Nag - Research Fellow, 2024 – 2026
Laurence Davies - Research Fellow, 2024 – 2026
Xiaotian Zheng - Research Fellow, 2022 – 2025
Michael Bertolacci - Senior Research Fellow, 2022 – 2024
Michael Bertolacci - Research Fellow, 2019 – 2022
Bohai Zhang – Research Fellow, 2015 – 2018
Andrew Zammit-Mangion – Statistical Computing Scientist (Senior Research Fellow), 2014 – 2016
Alexandra (Sandy) Burden – Research Fellow, 2014 – 2017
Howard Bondell - Australia, 2025
Christopher K. Wikle - USA, 2024
Antonietta Mira - Switzerland, 2023
Rune Christiansen – Denmark, 2019
Daniel Simpson – Canada, 2019
Lassi Roininen and Marko Laine – Finland, 2019
Ann Stavert – Melbourne, 2018, 2019
Linda Tan – Singapore, 2018
Christopher Wikle – USA, 2017, 2018
David Nott – Singapore, 2017
Alfred Stein – Netherlands, 2017
Hsin-Cheng Huang – Taiwan, 2016, 2018
Enki Yoo – USA, 2016
Cecile Hardouin – France, 2016