July, 2019.
Statistical Society of Australia (Queensland Branch)
Statistics Career Seminar: Lead with Statistics,
University of Queensland.
Teaching and Researching in Statistics at UQ.
July-August, 2017.
Joint Statistical Meetings 2017,
Baltimore.
A Parallel EM Algorithm for Statistical Learning
via Mixture Models.
July, 2017.
The Annual Summer Session of the Working Group on Model-Based Clustering,
University of Perugia Perugia.
Multithreaded Implementation of the EM algorithm:
Applications to Skew Mixture Models.
November, 2016.
Advances in Statistics and Econometrics Workshop
organized by the National Centre for
Econometric Research (NCER), Brisbane.
On the Use of Some Non-Normal Distributions
for the Modelliing and Clustering of Data
in the Presence of Skewness and Outliers (plenary).
September, 2016.
MBC^2 - Workshop on Model Based Clustering and Classification,
organized with the support of the Italian Statistical Society
and the Classification and Data Analysis Group (CLADAG),
the Università di Catania, Catania.
Hidden Components of Skew Distributions - A Cautionary
Warning
(contributed talk).
August, 2016.
COMPSTAT 2016, Oviedo, Spain.
On Mixture Modelling with Multivariate Skew Distributions.
October, 2015.
Colloquium. Queensland Chapter of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS).
Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus.
On Modelling and Clustering via Mixture Distributions.
July, 2015.
The Annual Summer Session of the Working Group on Model-Based Clustering,
University of Washington, Seattle.
Clustering via Mixtures of Skew Symmetric Component Distributions.
April, 2015.
Seminar.
University of Toulon, France.
On Some Mixture Distributions for Modelling
Complex Datasets.
February, 2015.
Seminar.
Discipline of Business Analytics, The University of Sydney Business School.
Some Recent Results on Skew Versions of the Normal
Distribution for Modelling Asymmetric Data
with Applications to Financial Data.
November, 2014.
The Twelfth Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2014),
Brisbane.
Making Sense of a Random World through Statistics (keynote).
November, 2014.
2014 Joint NZSA+ORSNZ Conference, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Modelling, Clustering, and Cluster Matching
of Multiple Samples via Skew Distributions (opening plenary).
September, 2014.
Seminar.
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche,
Università degli Studi di Salerno, Salerno.
Mixture Models with High-Dimensional Data.
September, 2014.
Seminar.
Department of Statistics, University of Bologna, Bologna.
Joint Clustering and Matching of Multivariate Samples
Across Objects.
September, 2014.
Seminar.
Department of Quantitative Methods for Economics,
University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan.
On Extensions of Normal Mixtures for Modelling Complex Datasets.
September, 2014.
MBC^2 - Workshop on Model Based Clustering and Classification,
organized by the Classification and Data Analysis Group (CLADAG)
of the Italian Statistical Society, the Università di
Catania, Catania.
On Finite Mixtures of Canonical Fundamental Skew
t-Distributions (contributed talk).
August, 2014.
COMPSTAT 2014, Geneva.
Mixture of regression models with latent variables
and sparse coefficient parameters.
(contributed paper presented by coauthor Angus Ng).
November, 2013.
Seminar.
INRIA Grenoble Rhone-Alpes, France.
Modelling via Mixtures of Skew Distributions.
August, 2013.
ISI (International Statistical Institute) 2013 Satellite
Meeting on
Statistics in Business, Industry, and Risk Management,
sponsored by the ISI Committee on Risk Analysis and ISBIS
(International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics),
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Non-Normal Mixture Models with Applications to Financial Data.
(opening plenary).
August, 2013.
ISI Young Statisticians' Meeting (2013 YSI),
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
of the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
On the Fitting of Mixture Models
to High-Dimensional Data.
July, 2013.
The 20th Annual Summer Session of the Working Group on Model-Based
Clustering, the University of Bologna, Bologna.
On Mixtures of Skew Distributions.
May, 2013.
The IL-SONG Lecture at the 2013
The Korean Statistical Society Spring Annual Meeting,
State University of New York (SUNY) Korea, Sandgo, Icheon, South Korea.
Extending the Role of Finite Mixtures
of Distributions in Modelling and Clustering
(keynote).
May, 2013.
Seminar, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea.
Extending the Role of Finite Mixtures
of Distributions in Modelling and Clustering.
September, 2012.
MBC^2 - Workshop on Model Based Clustering and Classification,
organized by the Classification and Data Analysis Group (CLADAG)
of the Italian Statistical Society, the Università di
Catania, Catania.
On Mixtures of Skew Normal and Skew t-Distributions
(keynote).
August, 2012.
COMPSTAT 2012, Limassol, Cyprus.
Mixture Models for High-Dimensional Data.
Tutorial on Mixture Models for High-Dimensional Data.
July, 2012. Distinguished Lecture in Bioinformatics, University of Guelph,
Canada.
On Some Microarray Gene Expression-Based Approaches to Disease
Discovery, Diagnosis, and Prognosis.
January, 2012.
Bioinformatics Workshop,
University of Technology Sydney, Sydney.
On Improving the Power of Tests for the Detection of Differential
Expression via Mixture Models.
December, 2011.
7th IASC-ARS (Joint Meeting of the 2011 Taipei International Statistical
Symposium and the 7th Conference of the Asian Regional Section of the
IASC, Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei.
On Automated Flow Cytometric Data Analysis.
December, 2011. ICDM 2011 (The 11th IEEE International Conference on
Data Mining), Vancouver. Acceptance presentation for the
IEEE ICDM Research Contributions Award (plenary).
October, 2011.
Colloquium,
School of Mathematical Sciences,
University of Adelaide, Adelaide.
On the Ever Increasing Role of Mixture Distributions in the Modelling of
Heterogeneous Data.
Statistics Seminar, Statistical Modelling for Some Problems in
Bioinformatics.
August, 2010.
Joint Statistical Meetings, Vancouver.
Multiple Hypothesis Testing by Clustering of Gene (Variable) Profiles
(contributed paper presented by coauthor Leesa Wockner).
July, 2010.
WCCI (World Congress in Computational Intelligence)
2010, Barcelona.
Identifying Fibre Bundles with Regularised k-Means
Clustering Applied to Grid-Based Data
(contributed paper presented by coauthor Dr. Vladimir Nikulin).
May, 2010.
Statistical Seminar, University of Padua, Padua.
Fitting Mixtures of Multivariate Normal Distributions to High-Dimensional
Data Using Factor Models.
March, 2010.
Mixture Estimation and Applications,
International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh.
The Modelling of High-Dimensional Data via Normal Mixture Models.
November, 2009.
Statistical Methods in Genetics and Bioinformatics,
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane.
Statistical Analysis of Gene-Expression Data.
October, 2009.
BA2009 - Bioinformatics Australia Conference, Melbourne.
The Combination of Clinical Factors and Genetic Markers Can Improve
Cancer Prognosis
(contributed paper presented by coauthor Dr Kim-Anh Le Cao).
July, 2008.
XXIV International Biometric Conference, Dublin.
Invited discussant in Invited Session on
Critical Evaluation of Statistical Methods Proposed for Microarray
Analysis.
September 2007.
Annual meeting of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operational
Research (SEIO), Valladolid, Spain.
Statistical Analysis of Microarray Data.
September 2007.
Opening statistics seminar of the academic year (with discussion),
Department of Statistics, University of Bologna.
Large-Scale Simultaneous Inference with Applications to the
Detection of Differential Expression with Microarray Data.
June, 2007.
2007 Winter School in Mathematical and Computational Biology,
ARC Centre in Bioinformatics and Institute for Molecular Bioscience,
University of Queensland.
Large-Scale Simultaneous Inference for the Detection
of Differential Expression with Microarray Data.
November, 2006.
Bioinformatics Australia 2006, Sydney.
Finding Differentially Expressed Genes in Multiclass
Microarrays Using a Mixture Model Approach
(contributed talk).
September, 2006.
Macquarie University, Sydney.
Microarray Data Classification.
August, 2006.
One-Day Workshop at the Joint Statistical Meetings 2006.
Methods and Computational Tools for the Screening
and Classification of Microarray Gene Expression Data
(joint with Kim-Anh Do and Keith Baggerly), Seattle.
February, 2006.
Meeting of the Canberra Branch of the Statistical Society of Australia,
Canberra.
Some Applications of Statistics in Bioinformatics.
December, 2005.
International Conference in Statistics,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Some Applications of Mixture Models to Microarray Data in
Bioinformatics (plenary).
July, 2005.
Bioinformatics Symposium 2005,
HELP University College, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
An Introduction to the Statistical Analysis of Microarray
Gene-Expression Data (keynote).
June, 2005.
Joint Annual Meeting of the Interface and Classification Society of
North America, St. Louis, Missouri.
Model-Based Clustering of High-Dimensional Data in
session on Model-Based Clustering/Classification in High-Dimensional
Data and
A Model-Based Approach to Multiple Hypothesis Testing via Mixture
Models in session on Model Building with Applications to Mixtures
and Bioinformatics.
May, 2005.
Workshop on Oncogenetics, Florence.
Invited discussion of paper
by Professor Lucio Luzzatto (Tuscany Cancer Institute),
titled The Molecular Basis of Cancer.
May, 2005.
Statistics for Functional Genomicists and Functional Genomics for
Statisticians, Florence.
Sponsored by the Nutrigenomics Organization (a European Union
VI Framework Network of Excellence) and the Tuscany Cancer Institute.
Class Discovery and Class Prediction:
Unsupervised and Supervised Clustering Probabilistic Models
(joint with C. Romualdi et al.).
May, 2005.
Meeting of the Statistical Society of Australia (Queensland Branch),
Brisbane.
The Role of Statistics in Bioinformatics.
November, 2004.
Department of Statistics and Operations Research,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Discriminant Analysis of Microarray Gene-Expression Data.
February, 2004.
New Zealand Summer School of Bioinformatics, Auckland.
Multivariate Techniques in the Statistical Analysis of
Gene-Expression Data.
November-December, 2003. Invited lecturer at the winter school
jointly sponsored by the universities in the French-speaking part of
Switzerland, Villars-Sur-Ollon, Switzerland.
Lectures on Finite Mixture Models
and The EM Algortihm.
September, 2003. Opening plenary at the
5th Congresso Nazionale of the Italian Region of the
International Biometric Society, Marina di Massa.
Some Applications of Mixture Models
August, 2002.
Workshop: Perspectives in Modern Statistical Inference II,
Brno, Czech Republic.
On Variants of the EM Algorithm for the Fitting of Finite
Mixture Models.
December, 2001.
International Conference on Statistics, Combinatorics
and Related Areas on the 25th anniversary of the Forum
for Interdisciplinary Mathematics, University of Wollongong.
Clustering of Directional Data.
July, 2001.
Mixtures 2001 - Recent Developments in Mixture Modelling, Hamburg.
Modelling High-Dimensional Data by Mixtures of Factor Analyzers.
March, 2001.
25th Annual Conference of the German Classification Conference - GfKl (2001),
Munich.
On Clustering by Mixture Models.
March, 2001.
Workshop in Statistical Mixtures and Latent-Structure Modelling,
Edinburgh.
On the Incremental EM Algorithm for Speeding Up the Fitting of
Finite Mixture Models.
November, 2000.
Seminar at University of California Irvine.
Applying Mixture Models to Data.
November, 2000.
Seminar at the MD Anderson Cancer Centre, Houston.
Role of Mixture Models in Survival Analysis.
November, 2000.
Seminar at Rice University, Houston.
On Some Computational Aspects of the Fitting of Normal Mixtue Models.
November, 2000.
Seminar at the SAS Institute, Cary, North Caroilina.
Finite Mixture Models.
August, 2000. ASA Invited Session on Bayesian
Statistics, Joint Statistical Meetings, Indianapolis.
On Computational Aspects of Clustering via Mixtures of Normal and t
Components.
September, 1999.
Symposium on Chaos and Non-Linear Time Series, Kyushu University, Fukuoka,
Japan.
Modelling Nonlinearity by Mixtures of Factor Analyzers via Extensions
of the EM Algorithm.
June, 1999. 31st Symposium on the Interface, Chicago.
Computing Issues for the EM Algortihm in Mixture Models.
February, 1999. Information, Decision and Control - 99, Adelaide.
Vector Quantization, Clustering, and Data Compression via
Finite Mixture Models.