PhD, Statistics; Queensland University of Technology
Dynamic Queueing Networks: Simulation, Estimation and Prediction
Honours, Statistics; University of Western Australia
Predicting Bearing Failure using Joint Models with Longitudinal and Time-to-event Data
MPhil, Chemical Engineering; University of Sydney
Synthesis, Preparation and Assembly of Carbon Nanotube-Based Electrode Materials
Agrawal, M., Ebert, A., Poulsen, G., Ungaro, R., Faye, A., Jess, T., Colombel, J-F., & Allin, K. (2023). Early ileocecal resection for Crohn’s disease is associated with improved long-term outcomes compared to anti-tumor necrosis factor therapy: a population-based cohort study. Gastroenterology. https://doi.org/10.1053/j.gastro.2023.05.051
Ebert, A., Dutta, R., Mengersen, K., Mira, A., Ruggeri, F., & Wu, P. (2021). Likelihood-free parameter estimation for dynamic queueing networks: Case study of passenger flow in an international airport terminal. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics). https://doi.org/10.1111/rssc.12487
Ebert, A., Wu, P., Mengersen, K., & Ruggeri, F. (2021). Curve registration of functional data for approximate Bayesian computation. Stats, 4(3), 762-775. https://doi.org/10.3390/stats4030045
Ebert, A., Wu, P., Mengersen, K., & Ruggeri, F. (2020). Computationally Efficient Simulation of Queues: The R Package queuecomputer. Journal of Statistical Software, 95(1), 1-29. https://doi.org/10.18637/jss.v095.i05
Warne, D.J., Ebert, A., Drovandi, C., Hu, W., Mira, A., Mengersen, K. (2020). Hindsight is 2020 vision: a characterisation of the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. BMC Public Health, 20, 1868. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09972-z
Ebert, A., Pudlo, P., Mengersen, K., & Wu, P. (2022). Combined parameter and state inference with automatically calibrated ABC. arXiv:1910.14227. To be submitted. https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.14227
Ebert, A., Wu, P. and Mengersen, K. (2019). Simulation for Management of Passenger Facilitation within Airport Terminals. In Wiley StatsRef: Statistics Reference Online. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118445112.stat08189
Liu, J., Ebert, A., Variava, M. F., Dehghani, F., & Harris, A. T. (2010). Surface modification and Pt functionalisation of multi-walled carbon nanotubes in methanol expanded with supercritical CO2. Chemical Engineering Journal, 165(3), 974-979. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2010.10.008
2021
Combined parameter and state inference for automatically calibrated ABC. ABC Svalbard. 12-13 April. Svalbard, Iceland.
2019
Approximate Bayesian computation to model passenger flow within airport terminals. International conference on Monte Carlo methods and approximations. 8-12 July. Sydney, Australia.
Monte Carlo prediction intervals for dynamic queueing systems (Invited). Bayesian inference in stochastic processes. 12-14 June. Madrid, Spain.
2018
Computationally efficient simulation of queues: The R package queuecomputer. Intractable Likelihoods & Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) Workshop. 12-18 December. Brisbane, Australia.
A review of distances on functional datasets for likelihood-free inference. Joint International Society for Clinical Biostatistics and Australian Statistical Conference. 26-30 August. Melbourne, Australia.
Approximate Bayesian computation: Distance measures for functional datasets. LMS Invited Lecture Series and CRISM Summer School in Computational Statistics. 9-13 June. Warwick, UK.
2017
Passenger flows through airport terminals. Applied Bayesian Statistic School. 19-23 June. Como, Italy.
Dynamic queueing systems: simulation, estimation & prediction. Bayes UC3M research group (University Carlos III of Madrid). 1 June. Madrid, Spain.
Efficient simulation of complex queueing systems with the R package queuecomputer. Sixième Rencontres R. 28-30 June. Anglet, France.
Programming: R (5 years exp), Python, C++, Matlab, SQLite + Relational algebra (Stanford Online)
Operating Systems: Linux, OSX, Windows, High performance computing (PBS Pro)
Document preparation: LaTeX, Rmarkdown, Microsoft Office
Probabilistic programming: JAGS, STAN, OpenBUGS
R packages authored: queuecomputer (on CRAN), EasyMMD, protoABC