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Pannelists

Ekaterina Artyukhova

Ekaterina’s career has spanned market research, Fast-Moving Consumer Goods, higher education and sports & leisure, all connected by a passion for using data to solve real-world problems. Her career began in market research before moving into data integration at Kraft Foods & Cadbury Russia and later building reporting systems in a fast-growing Turkish company. After completing a Master of Data Science at Monash University, she worked there as a Reporting Analyst in the Faculty of IT. Today, she is part of the E15 team at Levy Australia, supporting data projects for the Australian Open and other large sporting and music events.

Dr Ryan Covey

Ryan is a statistician with the Methodology and Data Science Division of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, where he works on research and statistical production in the areas of survey design and estimation, with a special focus on multi-source data. Ryan began his current role in 2022, after finishing a PhD in econometrics at Monash University on the relationship between sampling variability and predictive accuracy for forecast combinations and ensemble methods. Ryan also taught mathematics and data science as a teaching associate while completing his PhD. Prior to that, he held several roles at Telstra in data science, telecommunications and cyber security.

Dr Lynn Wu

Lynn is a Senior Data Scientist at the Department of Transport and Planning, where she applies statistics, machine learning and spatial analytics to support transport planning and decision-making. She holds a PhD in remote sensing and machine learning, with research focused on precision agriculture.

Dr Alan Pearse

Alan is an early career researcher in statistics. He recently completed a PhD in statistics at the University of Wollongong (conferred Feb. 2025), and he is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne. His research interests include environmental statistics, spatial statistics, copulas, and some aspects of information theory.