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Mathematician and Physicist with over 20 years experience in social, physiological and engineering applications of complex systems. Internationally renowned for developing new paradigms for the analysis of time series data from deterministic dynamical systems – particularly in the domain of statistical hypothesis testing, data-driven model building, and using complex networks as a model of dynamical processes. Previously worked under contract to the Hong Kong government on developing network-based models of disease propagation during the SARS outbreak (and later bird flu) – work that led to new insight in the spread and management of SARS. Worked on models of mechanical systems for the gaming industry (i.e. predictability in Roulette), agent-based and black-box models for hedge funds and investment banks, and, prediction of onset of cardiac arrhythmia from electrocardiogram. Chief Investigator and Institutional and Theme Lead of the newly funded Australia Research Council’s $A10M Industrial Transformation Training Centre for Transforming Maintenance through Data Science. Academic Lead of the Young Lives Matter Foundation’s research program, the Developmental Vulnerability Index, to characterise suicidal behaviour. Editor of the journal Chaos, Associate Editor of International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos. Published author of four monographs, over 200 international refereed journal articles and 150 conference papers, plenaries and keynotes.

Listed skills include Applied Mathematics, Time Series Analysis, Complex Systems, Dynamical Systems, and 35 others.