Facts & figures
In 2023, our researchers secured:
- 32 grants
- $21.2 million in grant funding
People_
About us
Leading multidisciplinary research in data-intensive science
We are a multidisciplinary team of researchers developing methods to help solve complex global problems, from designing predictive biomarkers of disease progression to ensuring the sustainability and quality of food production.
Our priorities
We work on the principle that successful and sustainable collaboration grows organically within the right environment. To this end, our priorities for success are to:
- embrace data science challenges by developing innovative, fit-for-purpose applied methods in synergistic partnerships with key data-generating centres at Sydney and beyond
- address data challenges with high societal impact and to build sustainable approaches
- provide an incubator for interdisciplinary careers
- establish a collaborative community that reflects and values diversity.
Our people
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 data-science.admin@sydney.edu.au expressing your interest and confirming you meet the criteria. The Centre’s Executive Committee reviews all expressions of interest.
- Prof. Jean Yang
- Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Prof. Jinman Kim
- Professor, School of Computer Science.
- Prof. Armando Teixeira-Pinto
- Professor, School of Public Health.
- Prof. Mary Myerscough
- Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics
- Prof. Katherline Belov
- Professor, School of Life and Environmental Sciences.
- Prof. Samuel Mueller
- Professor, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Macquarie University.
- Prof. Carolyn Hogg
- Professor, School of Life and Environmental Sciences
- A. Prof. John Ormerod
- Associate Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- A. Prof. Pengyi Yang
- Associate Professor and NHMRC Investigator, School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Dr Alistair Senior
- Senior Lecturer, School of Life and Environmental Sciences.
- Dr. Lake-Ee Quek
- Research Fellow, Charles Perkins Centre.
- Dr Ellis Patrick
- Associate Professor and DECRA Fellow, School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Dr Rachel Wang
- Senior Lecturer and DECRA Fellow, School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Dr Garth Tarr
- Associate Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Dr Clara Grazian
- Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Dr Tongliang Liu
- Asssociate Professor, School of Computer Science.
- Dr Shila Ghazanfar
- Lecturer and DECRA Fellow, School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Dr Qiuzhuang Sun
- Lecturer, School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Dr Beilei Bian
- Research Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Dr Yue Cao
- Research Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Dr Mohammed Javad Davoudabad
- 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.
- Alex Qin
- Research Assistant, School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Dr Pratibha Panwar
- Research Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Dr Akira Nguyen Shaw
- Research Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Dr Dario Strbenac
- 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 Maquarie University.
- Dr Katie Zyner
- Research Associate, Children's Medical Research Institute.
- Nicholas Robertson
- Software engineer, School of Mathematics and Statistics
- Amber Colhoun
- Program Centre Manager, School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Miranda Luo
- Senior Project Officer, School of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Carissa Chen
- PhD Student (Since 2020); Supervised by Pengyi Yang and Patrick Tam.
- Peng Su
- PhD Student (Since 2021); Supervised by Samuel Mueller and Garth Tarr.
- Lijia Yu
- PhD Student (Since 2021); Supervised by Pengyi Yang and Jean Yang.
- Andy Tran
- PhD Student (Since 2022); Supervised by John Ormerod and Jean Yang.
- Harry Robertson
- PhD Student (Since 2022); Supervised by Ellis Patrick and Natasha Rogers.
- Jackson Zhou
- PhD Student (Since 2022); Supervised by John Ormerod.
- 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.
- 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.
- Xueru Wang
- Masters Student (Since 2024); Supervised by Garth Tarr.
- Joshua Pople
- Honours Student; Supervised by Ellis Patrick.
- Shreya Rao
- Honours Student; Supervised by Ellis Patrick.
- Mingyu Li
- Honours Student; Supervised by Jean Yang.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.