• Distinguished Professor Kerrie Mengersen, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia

Kerrie Mengersen is currently a Distinguished Research Professor in Statistical Science, and the Director of the Centre for Data Science at Queensland University of Technology, and holds a concurrent role as Associate Member in the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford, UK. She was a Deputy Director in the ARC Centre of Excellence in Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (2015-2021) and an ARC Laureate Fellow (2015-2021). She was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is an active member of the Institute for Mathematical Sciences, International Biometrics Society, International Statistical Institute and the Statistical Society of Australia.

Her research focuses on using and developing new statistical and computational methods that can help to solve complex problems in the real world. These problems are in the fields of environment, genetics, health and medicine, and industry.

https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/k.mengersen 

• Dr Khue – Dung Dang, University of Western Australia, Australia

She has been a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Western Australia since September 2024.
She completed her PhD at the University of New South Wales in 2020 under the supervision of Prof. Robert Kohn, Dr. Matias Quiroz, and Dr. Minh-Ngoc Tran.
Before joining UWA, she was an ACEMS Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Technology Sydney (2019–2021) and later a Lecturer in Data Science and Statistics at the University of Melbourne (2021–2024).
Her research focuses on Bayesian computation and Bayesian modelling. She is currently interested in developing efficient methods for Bayesian inference in settings involving multiple outcomes data.
https://sites.google.com/view/khuedungdang/home