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Camila de Souza

Director

Dr. de Souza is an Assistant Professor in Statistics and Data Science at the University of Western Ontario. Prior to Western, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Shah Lab for Computational Cancer Biology at the B.C. Cancer Agency Research Centre. She completed her Ph.D. in Statistics at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Her research program consists of developing new statistical methods to analyze large and complex data structures arising from various areas in the Natural Sciences, Health, and Engineering.

Website: https://www.desouzacpe.com/

Email: camila.souza@uwo.ca 


Simon Bonner

Vice-Director

Dr. Bonner is an Assistant Professor jointly appointed to the Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences and the Department of Biology at the University of Western Ontario. His research focuses on ecological statistics, Bayesian inference, and statistical computing. He completed his Ph.D. at Simon Fraser University and spent two years as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia and four years as an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky before joining Western in 2015.

Website:  https://simon.bonners.ca/bonner-lab/wpblog/

Email: sbonner6@uwo.ca


Hyukjun (Jay) Gweon

Senior Consultant

Dr. Gweon is an Assistant Professor in Statistics and Data Science at Western University. He completed his PhD in Statistics at the University of Waterloo.  Before joining Western, Dr. Gweon was a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His current research focuses sparse-labeled data analysis with statistical learning, predictive model assessment, predictive analytics in actuarial science, and automated coding of survey data.


Yuan_Bian160x180.jpgYuan Bian

Consultant

Yuan is a third-year Ph.D. candidate in Statistics at the University of Western Ontario. He received his H.B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics and his thesis-based M.Sc. in Biostatistics at the University of Toronto. Currently his research focuses on missing data and statistical learning.


 Jingyu_Cui160x180.jpgJingyu Cui

Consultant 

Jingyu Cui is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in Statistics at the University of Western Ontario (UWO), supervised by Dr. Grace Y. Yi and Dr. Jorn Diedrichsen. Her current research mainly focuses on the analysis of high-dimensional data with measurement error and neuroscience data, for example fMRI data.


Johanna_de_Haan_Ward160x180.jpgJohanna de Haan Ward

Consultant

Johanna is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in Statistics at the University of Western Ontario. She received her B.Sc. in Mathematics at McGill University, and her M.Sc. in Statistics at UWO. During her M.Sc., her research focused on statistical analyses of microplastic pollution in freshwater. Her Ph.D. research focuses on the prediction of rare events, with applications in wildland fire science and statistical ecology.


Gansen_Deng160x180.jpgGansen Deng

Consultant

Gansen is a third-year Ph.D. candidate in Statistics at the University of Western Ontario (UWO). He received a bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics (Statistics) at the South China University of Technology and a master's degree in Statistics at UWO. His current research focuses on active learning and analyzing chronic pain data.


Jet_Zhou160x180.pngJet Zhou

Consultant

Jet is a third-year Ph.D. candidate in Statistics and Financial Modeling at Western University (UWO). Jet has two bachelor's degrees from Wilfrid Laurier University, one in business at Lazaridis Business School and the other in Financial Mathematics. Additionally, he got an M.Sc. in mathematics from WLU and worked there for two years as a research associate.  His current research focuses on corporate finance, corporate governance, risk management and network science.