Federico Girosi is an Associate Professor in Population Health at the School of Medicine, Western Sydney University and the Head of Research of the Health Market Quality program of Capital Markets CRC. Dr. Girosi is a health economist and a data scientist whose interests span a wide range of topics.

He is currently working in collaboration with federal and state organizations, as well with the private sector, on projects that apply data analytics to the solution of problems of immediate interest. Examples of his current projects include the development of a microsimulation for the prediction of health and health care utilization under different policy scenarios, the detection of clusters and anomalies in health trajectories, the design of customizable catchment areas and the analysis of the role of chronic conditions in the DRG hospital payment system.

He is also a Chief Investigator in three NHMRC sponsored projects: two that studies ways to manage ear infections in urban Aboriginal children and one that looks at immediate versus delayed care for gestational diabetes diagnosed at booking.

Dr. Girosi is also involved in research in the burden of eating disorders and in the evaluation of labor and birth programs.

Dr. Girosi earned a Ph.D. in Health Policy from Harvard University in 2003, and worked 8 years at the RAND Corporation (Santa Monica, U.S.A.). His best known RAND project was the development of the COMPARE microsimulation, which was used to evaluate the impact of health care reform commonly known as “Obamacare”. He also holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Genoa, Italy, and conducted research for 10 years at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the areas of machine learning and computer vision.

Dr. Girosi has published in a number of peer-reviewed international journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, Health Affairs, Nature, Science and the Proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He is also the author of a book, published by Princeton University Press in 2008 and co-authored by Gary King, entitled “Demographic Forecasting”.

This information has been contributed by Doctor Girosi.

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Marvin Wee is currently Associate Professor at the UWA Business School. Marvin has been lecturing full time at UWA since January 2001. During this time, Marvin completed his PhD in 2006 on the trading by retail traders and their impact on the Australian Stock Exchange. After completing his PhD, Marvin worked at Bank of Scotland Treasury (Perth Branch) as an Interest Rate and Foreign Exchange Sales Dealer for 18 months. Marvin returned to academia in Feb 2009 to pursue his research interests. Marvin has taught courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels based upon his area of expertise. These courses are in the area of corporate finance, investments and financial market microstructure. Marvin has published academic papers in international journals and presented at leading international conferences. These papers are on topics such as trading behaviour, financial market microstructure, firm disclosure, investor relations and information asymmetry within the stock market.

Dr Mao Lin Huang is an Associate Professor in School of Software, the Faculty of Engineering & IT, the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia. He is the Director of Visualization Research Lab, and the member of iNEXT and AAi Research Centres (the UTS key research strength Centre at the university level). Dr Huang is also the member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP), and the IEEE Technical Committee on Electronic Commerce (TCEC). Dr Huang is carrying out research mainly in the areas of Information Visualization, Visual Analytics, Graph Drawing and Visual Data Mining. He is a renowned expert and an internationally recognized researcher in the area of information visualization. Dr. Huang has published 170 research papers in high quality journals and international conferences since 1997. His publications have been citated for 1118 times according to Google Scholar. Dr Huang has successfully supervised 5 PhD students, and he is currently supervising 7 PhD students. Dr Huang has received many research grants including a large ARC Discovery Grant received recently, that was a very competitive grant with a 20% of lower acceptance rate. As the Sole Chief Investigator, he is fully (100%) in charge of this ARC large research project, granted by Australian Research Council (ARC) for the period of 2006 – 2008. He has chaired various international conferences/symposiums, and has been involved in the program committees of many international conferences. He is an editor of various conference proceedings. Dr. Huang has been a reviewer for several well-known IEEE Transactions and other journals, including the IEEE Trans. on Knowledge & Data Engneering, the IEEE Trans. on Systems, Mans and Cybertics and Journal of Information Visualization (IVS).