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Mark your calendars! The Australian Statistical Conference (ASC2025) is coming to Perth, WA, from 1–5 December 2025. This year’s conference promises to be an unmissable event, bringing together leading minds in statistics and data science from across Australia and beyond.
Join us for an exciting week of cutting-edge presentations, engaging workshops, and invaluable networking opportunities with professionals, academics, and industry leaders.
Keynote Speakers
A/Prof Tanya P. Garcia - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC USA
Collaborations with neuroscientists and biologists, her research focuses on extracting maximal information from large, highly correlated data structures and has led to scientific discoveries in neurodegenerative diseases and the gut microbiome. Her leadership promotes the success of underrepresented groups in (bio)statistics.
Dr Phillip Gould - Deputy Australian Statistician, Head of Data and Statistical Practices Group, ABS
Phillip joined the ABS in September 2024 from the Department of Health and Aged Care where he was the Chief Data Officer and First Assistant Secretary for the Health Economics and Research Division. Phillip has worked across the private, university and government sectors, including at the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet with roles in the COVID-19 response taskforce and in establishing the Office of the National Data Commissioner, and previously at the ABS where he helped establish the ABS’s data integration program.
Prof Martin L. Hazelton - Otago University, Dunedin, NZ
Martin Hazelton is a statistician with wide-ranging research interests. He has worked previously at the University of Oxford, University College London, the University of Western Australia, and Massey University in NZ. Martin was editor-in-chief of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics.
Dr Joanne Potts - Director, Analytic Edge Consulting, Tasmania
Joanne completed both her Bachelor of Science (University of Melbourne) and PhD studies in applied statistics (University of St Andrews, Scotland). She has extensive work experience as a statistician within government agencies, academia and private industry.
Dr Katharina Schuller - Founder & CEO, STAT-UP Statistical Consulting, Germany
In 2020, Katharina initiated the development of a Data Literacy Charter under the sponsorship of the Donors' Association for the Promotion of Sciences and Humanities in Germany, which was signed by more than 100 representatives from business, politics and science. In 2021, the IEEE Standards Association appointed her to lead an international working group to develop a global standard for Data & AI Literacy. Katharina was also involved in the development of the app Stadt, Land, DatenFluss by the German Adult Education Association. This was created to strengthen citizens' data literacy by explaining how new data-based technologies work in a playful way.
A/Prof Sofia S. Villar - UK MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge, UK
Since September 2020, she has been an MRC Investigator (Programme Leader) working as part of the Efficient Study Design (ESD) theme. Her research aims to improve clinical trial design through the development of innovative methods that lie in the intersection between optimisation, machine learning and statistics.
Stay tuned for more details, including program highlights, and how you can get involved.
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