Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Websites
Honours And Awards
Conference Organisation
Research Funding
Research Supervision
Refereeing
Professional Service
Presentations
Publications
Hobbies and Interests
Timeline
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Joanna Wang

Sydney,NSW

Summary

Organized academic professional offers history of positive student learning outcomes fostered through creative curriculum delivery. Skilled in sparking thought-provoking discussions to increase student participation and boost information retention. Brings 10 years of teaching experience and strong sense of academic integrity.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Lecturer in Statistics

School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, UTS
12.2019 - Current

Research statistician

Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, Department of Communities and Justice
05.2017 - 12.2019

Research fellow

The Sax Institute
03.2015 - 05.2017

Postdoctoral research fellow

School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, UTS
03.2015 - 05.2017

Research fellow

Transport and road safety, University of New South Wales
01.2013 - 03.2015

Lecturer

School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney
01.2013 - 03.2015

Statistics tutor

School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney
01.2008 - 03.2013

Research assistant

School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney
01.2011 - 12.2012

Education

Ph.D. in Statistics -

School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney
01.2012

B.Sc.(Advanced Mathematics) Honours Class I -

School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney
01.2007

Skills

  • Project Leadership
  • Business Expansion
  • Scheduling
  • Continuous Process Improvements
  • Scheduling And Calendar Management
  • Process Optimisation
  • Stakeholder Communication
  • Influencing And Negotiating
  • Office Administration
  • Cross-Functional Team Leadership
  • Performance Incentives
  • Relationship Building
  • Analytics
  • Statistical Data Gathering
  • Efficiency Improvement
  • System And Program Efficiency
  • Data Modeling

Honours And Awards

  • AEMG Outstanding Teaching Visit Teacher Award, 2024
  • 60 Australian statisticians, showcasing the breadth of the Australian statistical community to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Statistical Society of Australia, 2023
  • The 11th Annual J.B. Douglas Postgraduate Award, 2010

Conference Organisation

2023-12, IASC-ARS Conference at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, Member of the Local Organising Committee

Research Funding

12/2022, 12/2025, Australian Research Council Discovery Project, $353,479, Technology Driven and Scalable Regression Methodology, Computing and Theory, Professor Matt Wand

Research Supervision

  • 03/2020, present, Co-supervision, Eman Alfaifi, Embedding latent class methods within population size estimation
  • 06/2023, 06/2024, Supervision, Yazhen Zhu, An investigation of flexible interrupted time series analysis of the COVID-19 lockdown restrictions on crime in NSW, Australia
  • 02/2022, 11/2022, Co-supervision, Varsha Bubathi, Analysis and machine learning attribution of maximum temperature differences between Western and Coastal Sydney

Refereeing

  • Asia-Pacific Financial Markets
  • Journal of Applied Probability and Statistics
  • Sri Lankan Journal of Applied Statistics
  • The Medical Journal of Australia
  • PLOS ONE
  • Risk Analysis
  • Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics
  • BMC Medicine
  • Statistics in Medine
  • Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation
  • Frontiers in Public Health

Professional Service

  • 06/2020, present, Honours program director, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, UTS
  • 01/2021, present, Master of Science and Master of Philosophy (Mathematical and Statistical Data Science) program director, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, UTS
  • 03/2021, present, Review editor of the Frontiers in Public Health, Aging and Public Health section
  • 12/2021, 12/2023, Board of Directors Ordinary Members, The Asian Regional Section of The International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC-ARS)
  • 01/2021, 12/2021, Membership officer, Statistical Society of Australia, NSW Branch
  • 02/2016, 12/2017, Selection committee member of AustMS WIMSIG (Women in Mathematics Special Interest Group), Praeger travel award and Street award
  • 01/2017, 12/2017, Treasurer, Statistical Society of Australia, NSW Branch
  • 01/2016, 12/2016, Assistant secretary, Statistical Society of Australia, NSW Branch

Presentations

  • 2024-03-22, Plenary talk at Meet the Markers Conference, Sydney, Australia
  • 2023-08-01, EcoSta, Tokyo, Japan
  • 2022-12-12, IASC-ARS Interim Conference 2022, Online Conference
  • 2022-08-30, Statistics Seminar, Statistics Society Australia Canberra Branch meeting
  • 2019-06-11, ACEMS Public lecture, University of Technology Sydney
  • 2016-07-30, 2016-08-04, Joint Statistical Meetings, Chicago, USA
  • 2016-09-06, 45 and Up Annual Collaborators’ Meeting, Sydney, Australia

Publications

  • Social and emotional wellbeing among young people; the mitigating role of ecological domains, Turkmani, S., Bista, S; Wang, J., O'Donnell, A.W., Thomson, C., Radcliffe, N.J., Skattebol, J., Redmond, G and Brooks, F., Child Indicators Research, 16, 941-962, 2023
  • Are organisational responses by police forces appropriate to adequately safeguard police officer wellness? A review of the scientific evidence, Beckley, A, Wang J. and Birch, P., Safer Communities, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1108/sc-05-2023-0015
  • Impact of Recent Accelerated Climate Change on Maximum Temperature Differences between Western and Coastal Sydney, Bubathi, V., Leslie, L., Speer, M., Hartigan, J. Wang, J. and Gupta, A., Climate, 11, 4, 76, 2023
  • Extracurricular activity participation, school belonging and depressed mood: a test of the compensation hypothesis during adolescence., O’Donnell, A., Redmond, G., Gardner, A., Wang, J. and Mooney, A., Applied Developmental Science, https://doi.org/10.1080/10888691.2023.2260745, 2023
  • The Association between Parental Educational Expectations and School Functioning among Young People with Disabilities: A Longitudinal Investigation, O'Donnell, A; Redmond, G; Arciuli, J; Robinson, S; Skattebol, J; Raghavendra, P; Thomson, C; Wang, J.; Emerson, E., Exceptional Children, https://doi.org/10.1177/001440292210873, 2022
  • Takeaway alcohol sales and violent crime: the implications of extended trading hours., JJJ Wang, T Fung, S Poynton., Crime and Justice Bulletin No. 247, 2022
  • The effect of parole supervision on recidivism., E Ooi. and JJJ Wang., Crime and Justice Bulletin No. 245, 2022
  • Reducing educational disparities between Australian Adolescents in regional and metropolitan communities: the compensatory effects of extracurricular activities., O’Donnell, A, Redmond, G., Thomson, C., JJJ Wang. and Turkmani, S., Developmental Psychology, 10.1037/dev0001434, 2022
  • Who excludes? Young People’s Experience of Social Exclusion., Redmond, G., Main, G., O’Donnell, A.W., Skattebol, J., Woodman, R., Mooney, A., Wang, J., Turkmani, S., Thomson, C. and Brooks, F., Journal of Social Policy, 1-24, 2022
  • The impact of the COVID-19, social distancing, and movement restrictions on crime in NSW, Australia, Wang, JJJ., Fung, T. and Weatherburn, D., Crime Science, 10, 1-14, 2021
  • The effect of police searches and move-on directions on property and violent crime in NSW., Wang, JJJ and Weathburn, D., Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 54, 3, 2021
  • Stochastic Modelling of Volatility and Inter-relationships in the Australian Electricity Markets., Wang, JJJ. and Chan, JSK., Communications in Statistics – Simulation and Computation, 52, 8, 3877-3896, 2021
  • The long-term effect of routine police activity on property and violent crime in NSW, Australia., Wang, JJJ., Weatherburn, D. and Wan, WY., Crime and Justice Bulletin No. 225, 2019
  • Are police cautions a soft option? Reoffending among juveniles cautioned or referred to court., Wang, JJJ. and Weatherburn, D., Journal of Criminology, 52, 334-347, 2019
  • Intensive correction orders versus short prison sentence: a comparison of re-offending., Wang, JJJ. and Poynton, S., Crime and Justice Bulletin No. 207, 2017
  • Health service use in the older person with complex health needs., Bartlett, M., Wang, JJJ., Hay, L. and Pang, G., Australian Health Review, 2017, 10.1071/AH16286
  • Non-ignorable missingness in logistic regression., Wang, JJJ., Bartlett, M. and Ryan, L., Statistics in Medicine, 36, 19, 3005-3021, 2017
  • On the impact of nonresponse in logistic regression: application to the 45 and Up Study., Wang, JJJ., Bartlett, M. and Ryan, L., BMC Research Methodology, 10.1186/s12874-017-0355-z, 2017
  • Analysing return asymmetry and quantiles through stochastic volatility models using asymmetric Laplace error via uniform scale mixtures., Wichitaksorn, N., Wang, JJJ., Choy, STB., and Gerlach, R., Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, 31, 584-608, 2015
  • Anti-Helmet Arguments: Lies, Damned Lies and Flawed Statistics., Olivier, J., Wang, JJJ., Walter, S. and Grzebieta, R., Journal of the Australasian College of Road Safety, 25, 10-23, 2014
  • A systematic review of methods used to assess mandatory bicycle helmet legislation in New Zealand., Olivier, J., Wang, JJJ. and Grzebieta, R., Journal of the Australasian College of Road Safety, 25, 24-31, 2014
  • Response to ‘Evaluation of New Zealand’s bicycle helmet law’., Wang, JJJ., Olivier, J. and Grzebieta, R., New Zealand Medical Journal, 127, 106-108, 2014
  • The deviance information criterion in comparison of normal mixing models, Wang, JJJ., Fung, T. and Seneta, E., International Statistical Review, 82, 3, 411-421, 2014
  • Contaminated Variance–Mean mixing model, Fung, T, Wang, JJJ. and Seneta, E., Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 67, 258-267, 2013
  • Modelling stochastic-volatility using generalized t distribution., Wang, JJJ., Choy, STB. and Chan, JSK., Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 83, 340-354, 2013
  • Stochastic volatility models with leverage and heavy-tailed distributions: a Bayesian approach using scale-mixtures., Wang, JJJ., Chan, JSK. and Choy, STB., Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 55, 852-862, 2013

Hobbies and Interests

  • Analysis of crime data and program evaluation in criminal justice systems
  • Analysis of large-scale epidemiological, survey and population data
  • Survey nonresponse and missing data
  • Bayesian computational econometrics
  • Heavy tailed and asymmetric distributions in scale-mixture forms

Timeline

Senior Lecturer in Statistics

School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, UTS
12.2019 - Current

Research statistician

Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, Department of Communities and Justice
05.2017 - 12.2019

Research fellow

The Sax Institute
03.2015 - 05.2017

Postdoctoral research fellow

School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, UTS
03.2015 - 05.2017

Research fellow

Transport and road safety, University of New South Wales
01.2013 - 03.2015

Lecturer

School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney
01.2013 - 03.2015

Research assistant

School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney
01.2011 - 12.2012

Statistics tutor

School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney
01.2008 - 03.2013

Ph.D. in Statistics -

School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney

B.Sc.(Advanced Mathematics) Honours Class I -

School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney
Joanna Wang