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