bioDS lab is located across Levels 5 & 7 in Jack Erskine building.
We are part of the Biomathematics Research Centre and the School of Mathematics and Statistics at University of Canterbury in beautiful Christchurch
Faculty
PhD students
- Lars Berling: Statistics in the time-tree space
- Kate Truman: Identifiability of phylogenetic models, supervised by Sasha Gavryushkina
- Lilin Zhang: AI for GWAS, co-supervised by Michael Witbrock at the University of Auckland
- Bruna Caveion: Algorithms for precision oncology, supervised by Sasha Gavryushkina
MSc students
- Maayan Levy: Online algorithms
Alumni
- Kieran Collienne (MSc, PhD; currently postdoc at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center with JT McCrone)
- Lena Collienne (MSc, PhD, postdoc; currently postdoc at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center with Erick Matsen)
- Jiří Moravec (postdoc; currently Senior R&D Data Scientist at BioLumic)
- Astra Heywood (postdoc; currently Bioinformatician at Plant and Food Research)