Leadership Team

Professor Di Cook
Director

Professor Brett Inder
Deputy Director and Global Development

Professor Damjan Vukcevic & Dr Minh Hyunh
Engagement & Industry Partnerships

Professor George Athanasopoulos
Cross-faculty Collaboration

Dr Kate Saunders & Dr Michael Lydeamore
Impact 2030 Themes & Responsible AI

Lab Coordinator (to be appointed)

Faculty

Monash Econometrics and Business Statistics Department has more than 40 permanent academics, and another 50 research students and post-doctoral researchers, with most pursuing research in data analytics, including open source software development. Here is just a sample of the work our academics and PhD students are involved in.

Professor George Athanasopoulos

Internationally recognised for his contributions to forecasting, time series analysis, and applied econometrics.

Professor Di Cook

World leading expert in interactive and dynamic statistical data visualisation.

Catherine Forbes

Expert in Bayesian statistics and econometrics developing models of financial risks and their dynamic interaction with other factors.

Professor Rob Hyndman

World leading expert in forecasting and time series modelling.

Dr Minh Hyunh

Applied statistician and educator with broad expertise, and substantail contributions to sports analytics.

Dr Jessica Leung

Research at the intersection of mathematical optimisation, data mining and statistics.

Dr Michael Lydeamore

Broadly skilled statistician and infectious disease modeller whose work spans a wide array of applications across health, biostatistics, and various non-medical fields.

Anastasios Panagiotelis

Expertise on hierarchical forecasting, Bayesian model selection, and copula models.

Dr Kate Saunders

Expert in statistical climatology, modelling climate extremes and understanding how the probability of extreme weather events.

Professor Damjan Vukcevic

Community builder who organises activities that promote statistical thinking and its contribution to society.

Click here to see a full list of our staff and their research interests.

Students

July 2025 network map of the EBS PhD students and their supervisors

A few highlights of student research are:

Krisanat Anukarnsakulchularp

Spatiotemporal network visualisation and modelling with applications to health data.

Floyd Everest

Preferential data, election audits, applied statistics.

Jayani Lakshika

Researching methodology for nonlinear dimension reduction of high-dimensional data.

Cash Looi

Looking at high-dimensional inference, and flexible multinomial choice modeling.

Harriet Mason

Visual statistics, statistics philosophy, and computational statistics.

Mitch O’Hara-Wild

Data scientist, time series and forecasting, software development.

Tina Rashid Jafari

Developing methods to detect non-normal associations in high-dimensional data.

Bets Ruscoe

Studying AI Ethics and deep learning models

Click here for a more extensive list of our PhD students and their research interests