Invited Sessions

Invited sessions aim to bring together experts to discuss emerging trends, present cutting-edge research, and engage in meaningful discussions on specialised topics that will be of interest to the biometrics community, over a 90 minute period.

Statistics for Biosecurity Surveillance

Organiser and Chair: A/Prof Robert Clark

  • Prof Andrew Robinson
    University of Melbourne, CEO of CEBRA
    Surveillance for counterfactual scenarios of invasive species - why it’s useful and a convenient way to do it
  • Dr Mahdi Parsa and Dr Belinda Barnes
    Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
    Optimising control and surveillance strategies under uncertainty in complex eradication programs
  • Dr Sumon Das and A/Prof Robert Clark
    Australian National University
    Infererring the rate of undetected contamination using random effects modelling of biosecurity screening histories
  • Dr Raphael Trouvé
    University of Melbourne, Senior Research Fellow in Forest Dynamics
    Optimal sampling in border biosecurity

A cluster of modern clustering methods for Biometrics

Organiser and Chair: A/Prof Francis Hui

  • Dr Skipton Wolley
    CSIRO Data 61
    Species archetype models for presence-only data
  • Dr Louise McMillian
    School of Mathematics and Statistics, Victoria University of Wellington
    The difficulties of clustering categorical or mixed data
  • Dr Shonosuke Sugusawa
    Faculty of Economics, Keio University
    Bayesian clustered ensemble prediction for multivariate time series

Methods and Practice in Agricultural Analytics

Organiser and Chair: Dr Emi Tanaka

  • Dr Shuwen Hu
    RMIT University
    Leveraging Statistical Modelling and Machine Learning in Animal Science
  • A/Prof Gota Morota
    Univeristy of Tokyo
    Evaluating the impact of trait measurement error on genetic analysis of computer vision-based phenotypes
  • Dr Elle Saber
    Australian National University
    Fishing for Heritability in the Gill Microbiome: Why Statisticians Should get out into the field