About Me
I’m currently working as a biometrician at the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Western Australia. I obtained my MPhil in statistics from The University of Western Australia under the supervision of Berwin Turlach and Kevin Murray.
I grew up in Malaysia and moved to Australia in 2013 when I started university. I speak Mandarin as well! My surname “Ng” is pronounced as ung without the vowel sound. It’s the Hokkien (a Chinese dialect) pronunciation of 黄, which stands for yellow in English.
Research Interest
My primary research areas lie in statistics and (statistical) machine learning. I think they are almost identical but only differ philosophically: statistics infers, machine learning predicts.
Here is a list of my more specific research interests (and it’s growing):
- Bayesian statistics;
- Nonparametric models;
- Markov chain Monte Carlo methods;
- Optimisation.