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Nicholas Geard
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I am am a computer scientist with over 10 years experience in modelling the spread and control of infectious diseases. I obtained mys PhD in computer science from the University of Queensland in 2016. Following 3 years of postdoctoral research in the UK, I joined the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health in 2011, where I was awarded an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. I joined the School of Computing and Information Systems in 2016, where I am an Associate Professor leading a group of 6 postdoctoral and PhD researchers. I am also Director of the Melbourne Data Analytics Platform (MDAP), a team of 20 data scientists who provide cross-disciplinary support on computing and data-intensive research across the University of Melbourne.
Adaptive & Self-Organizing Systems Epidemiology Infectious Diseases