Meet our Team
Simon Bonner
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
Camila de Souza
Vice-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
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 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.
Ana Carolina Da Cruz
Consultant Ana Carolina is a third-year Ph.D. candidate in Statistics at the University of Western Ontario, supervised by Dr. de Souza. Her current research focuses on change-point models, Bayesian analysis, and functional regression.
Gansen 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.
Pingbo Hu
Consultant
Zhaoqi Yang
Consultant
