I am an applied statistician and Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Prof. Katherine Lee in the Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia. (This is a personal website.)
Research
I want to help biomedical scientists generate clear, decision-relevant evidence from their experiments. I am interested in both clinical trials and laboratory experiments, and in all stages of the process: from planning and design, through modelling and data analysis, to communicating and interpreting results.
Currently I am helping design an adaptive platform trial in pediatric sepsis.
Some other projects:
- A parsimonious model for credibly estimating varying treatment effects in clinical trials (Chapter 3 of my thesis).
- Simple rank-based statistics for understanding the “overlap” among related conditions based on genomic data (R package, Chapter 2 of my thesis).
- Pooled re-analyses of data from clinical trials of drugs repurposed for COVID-19 (hydroxychloroquine, losartan).
- Reproducible research and computational workflows using Nix.
Background
I completed my PhD in the Department of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, advised by Prof. Kasper Hansen and Prof. Elizabeth Stuart.
Before this I worked in the laboratory of Dr. Tony Papenfuss (primarily in cancer genomics), and completed undergraduate and masters degrees at the University of Melbourne.
Other Interests
Spending time with my family, philosophy and theology, and classic movies. I attend St. James' Old Cathedral.