Research team, May 2009. Back row: PhD students. Front row: Post-​​doctoral research fellows and me.

Current research fellows

Current postgraduate students

  1. Alysha M De Livera. Forecasting time series with complex seasonality. (Ph.D., submitted 2010).
  2. Lidong Huang. Forecasting time series of counts (Ph.D., begun 2010)
  3. Atikur Khan. Singular spectrum analysis. (Ph.D., begun 2009)
  4. Andrey Kostenko. Intermittent demand forecasting. (Ph.D., begun 2007).
  5. Ahmad Farid Osman. Forecasting Malaysian tourism. (Ph.D., begun 2008).
  6. Laura VillanovaResponse surface optimization for high-​​dimensional systems with multiple responses. (Ph.D., submitted 2010).
  7. Farah Yasmeen. Functional linear models for mortality forecasting. (Ph.D., begun 2007).

Former research fellows

Former postgraduate students

  1. Roman Akhter Ahmed. Forecasting hierarchical time series. (Ph.D., graduated 2009). Now working in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at Monash University.
  2. Muhammad Akram. Stability properties of state space models for exponential smoothing, (Ph.D., graduated 2005). Now a Research Fellow in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at Monash University.
  3. Sengarapillai Arivalzahan. Discrimination and classification in functional data analysis, (Ph.D., graduated 2008). Now a Lecturer in Statistics at University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka.
  4. David Bashtannyk. Kernel conditional density estimation, (Ph.D., graduated 2001). Now a credit risk manager at Esanda.
  5. Ashton de Silva. Vector innovations structural time series framework. (Ph.D.,completed 2007). Now a lecturer in the School of Economics, Finance and Marketing at RMIT.
  6. Bircan Erbas. Statistical methodological issues in studies of respiratory disease and air pollution, (Ph.D., Uni of Melbourne, graduated 2001). Now a senior lecturer in the School of Public Health at La Trobe University.
  7. Abdul Aziz Hayat. Identifying GDP volatility and modeling changing seasonality. (Ph.D., graduated 2007). Now a lecturer in the School of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Deakin University.
  8. Yeasmin KhandakarAutomatic ARIMA forecasting. (Ph.D., completed 2010). Now a teacher at Monash College.
  9. Hugh O’Reilly. Analysis of trading strategies for futures markets. (M.Com., graduated 2004). Now a lecturer at Monash University’s Peninsula campus.
  10. Ivet Pitrun. Smoothing splines in nonparametric regression, (Ph.D., graduated 2002). Now a teacher at Monash College.
  11. Han Lin Shang. Visualizing and forecasting functional time series. (Ph.D., graduated 2010). Now a postdoctoral research fellow in Department of Econometrics & Business Statistics, Monash University (Caulfield campus).
  12. Leanna Tedesco. Non-​​Gaussian first order autoregressive time series models. (M.Sc., Uni of Melbourne, graduated 1995). Now working for ABARE.
  13. Shahid Ullah. Demographic forecasting using functional data analysis. (Ph.D., graduated 2007). Now a research fellow in the School of Human Movement and Sport Sciences, University of Ballarat.
  14. Xiaozhe (Catherine) Wang. Characteristic-​​based forecasting for time series data, (Ph.D., graduated 2005). Winner of Mollie Holman doctoral medal in IT, 2005. Now a lecturer in the School of Management, La Trobe University.
  15. Bruce Yu. Analysis of flood frequency data. (M.Sc., graduated 1998).

Some of my co-​​authors