• Distinguished Professor Kerrie Mengersen, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia

Kerrie Mengersen is currently a Distinguished Research Professor in Statistical Science, and the Director of the Centre for Data Science at Queensland University of Technology, and holds a concurrent role as Associate Member in the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford, UK. She was a Deputy Director in the ARC Centre of Excellence in Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (2015-2021) and an ARC Laureate Fellow (2015-2021). She was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is an active member of the Institute for Mathematical Sciences, International Biometrics Society, International Statistical Institute and the Statistical Society of Australia.

Her research focuses on using and developing new statistical and computational methods that can help to solve complex problems in the real world. These problems are in the fields of environment, genetics, health and medicine, and industry.

https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/k.mengersen 

• Dr Brenda Vo, University of New England (UNE), Australia

Brenda Vo is a Senior Lecturer in Statistics at the University of New England (UNE), Australia. Her expertise lies in theoretical and applied Bayesian statistics, especially with applications in health and cell biology. Brenda completed her PhD in Computational Bayesian Statistics in 2016 at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Before her appointment at UNE in August 2017, Brenda worked as a biostatistician on several projects in public health and nutrition sciences at QUT and Menzies School of Health Research, and as a Maths teacher at Kien Giang Community College in Vietnam. 

Brenda’s research works focus on complex statistical analyses and interpretation of population-based epidemiological data with specific focus on agent-based models for applications in infectious disease transmission and health behaviors. Brenda is actively engaged in several multi-disciplinary projects in wide-ranging collaborations; both internally and externally.

https://www.une.edu.au/staff-profiles/science-and-technology/brenda-vo