Meet the team

A multidisciplinary team of statisticians, computer scientists, plant scientists, research software engineers and students working on analytics for the grains industry

Staff

Emi Tanaka

Emi Tanaka

ANU-AAGI lead

Statistical data science
Bioinformatics and computational biology

Francis Hui

Francis Hui

Associate Professor

Statistical theory
Computational statistics

Alan Welsh

Alan Welsh

E.J. Hannan Professor

Statistical theory
Applied statistics

Patrick Weihao Li

Patrick Weihao Li

Postdoctoral Fellow

Computer vision
Statistical data science

Jenny Jiazhe Lin

Jenny Jiazhe Lin

Research Assistant

Statistical data science

Andrew Bowerman

Andrew Bowerman

Research Fellow

Plant biology
Bioinformatics and computational biology

Maeve McGillycuddy

Maeve McGillycuddy

Research Fellow

Computational statistics

Gusti F. Rais

Gusti F. Rais

Research Software Engineer

Data management and data science
Software engineering

Ian Hunt

Statistical Consultant

Applied statistics

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Students

  • Mingyang Sheng Mathematics Research ProjectSupervised by Emi Tanaka and Patrick Li 2026-ongoing
  • Yeni Yuliawati Research Essay in StatisticsSupervised by Emi Tanaka and Javier Fernandez (UQ) 2026-ongoing
  • Yuewen Liu Science Research ProjectSupervised by Qian Feng (CSIRO) and Emi Tanaka 2026
  • Shiyan Miao Science Research ProjectSupervised by Emi Tanaka and Yidi Deng 2025-2026
  • Jenny Jiazhe Lin HonoursSupervised by Emi Tanaka and Fonti Kar 2025
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External collaborators

  • Scott ChapmanUniversity of Queensland
  • Mark GibberdCurtin University
  • Adam SparksCurtin University
  • Julian TaylorUniversity of Adelaide

Alumni

  • Fonti Kar Research Fellow 2025-2026
  • Yidi Deng Postdoctoral Fellow 2025-2026
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