Australian National University

Analytics for the Australian Grains Industry

Statistical methods and research software for field trials, plant phenomics and the grains research community.

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News

Pizza, safety and a warm welcome to Andrew!

Gusti was successful in receiving a Safe Work Grant, which funded a pizza gathering for the ANU AAGI team 🍕 It was a great chance for everyone to step away from their…

Welcome to Maeve!

We are delighted that Maeve has joined the ANU AAGI team 😊 Maeve developed the reduced rank (or better known as factor analytic) covariance structure in the glmmTMB R…

ANU-Australian Plant Phenomics Network Facility Tour

On the 12th of August 2026, The ANU-APPN (Australian Plant Phenomics Network) hosted a facility tour of its faculties at the ANU Research School of Biology. Our tour group…

Welcome to Gusti!

We are delighted to welcome Gusti to the team. Despite his young age, Gusti has already demonstrated impressive professionalism, independence, and expertise in computing…

Job alert 📢 Seeking postdoc and research software engineer

We are looking for a:

A One-Stop Shop for Heritability Estimation

In genetics, heritability quantifies how much variation in a trait is due to genetic differences vs. environmental effects. It provides an indication of how evolvable traits…

2025 Highlights

Some highlights from 2025 in a slide:

The Australian Statistical Conference 2025

On 1 December 2025, the Australian Statistical Conference 2025, held in conjunction with the Statistical Education Symposium, officially opened in Perth, Western Australia.…

Biometrics in the Bush Capital

It was an absolute pleasure to organise and get to welcome delegates to the Biometrics in the Bush Capital (BIBC2025), the Australasian Region Biometrics conference by the…

Visiting Boorowa Agricultural Research Station of CSIRO

On September 9th, Patrick and I, two statisticians who usually only see the data but not ever seeing how they are born, finally had the chance to visit a real field…

Visiting the Lab of Biometry and Bioinformatics at the University of Tokyo

I had the pleasure of visiting and presenting to the Lab of Biometry and Bioinformatics at the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of…

Glasshouse wheat experiment tour

On 15th August 2025, Zixiong Zhuang (a PhD student at Danielle Way’s lab) presented to us about his glasshouse pre-breeding wheat experiment and its analysis from the first…

ANU AAGI Training Sessions

Now that all three postdocs we hired have arrived, we sprinted with 4 training sessions in the past week. In our training sessions we covered contents like:

Welcome to Yidi!

We’re pleased to welcome the last of the 3 postdocs hired this year, Yidi Deng, to the team! Yidi will be working in the area of bioinformatics and integration of molecular…

Welcome to Fonti!

We’re excited to have Fonti Kar join the team, working in the area of experimental design and statistical modelling for comparative agricultural experiments.

Welcome to Patrick!

We are excited to welcome Patrick Li, who will be working in the area of image analytics, machine learning and phenotyping methods.

Job alert 📢 Seeking 3 postdocs

We are looking for 3 postdoctoral or research fellows with experience in statistics, data science, machine learning, bioinformatics, quantitative biology, or closely related…