Moment Mentor Momento ep. 10 with Pratheepa Jeganathan

Pratheepa Jeganathan, an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics, is a statistician who’s saving lives. Her research is all about numbers and integrating multiple data sources to separate signal from noise and solve real-world data-driven problems.

Pratheepa is the 10th guest on Moment Mentor Memento – the Faculty of Science’s 14 episode podcast series with journalist in residence Jeff Goodes.

Along with explaining her research as a statistician, Pratheepa talks about a defining moment from her career, a mentor who made a difference and a memento that carries special meaning.

Pratheepa’s research group focuses on challenges that arise in multi-view learning. The group’s methods development is motivated by applications in molecular microbiology, microbiome multi-omics, spatial multi-omics, and loss reserving in non-life insurance. Some areas that the group uses to develop methods include matrix factorization, mixture models, topic models, nonparametric statistics, Bayesian modeling, Bayesian sampling methods, computational statistics, spatial statistics and approximation theory.

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