Professor Peter HALL

Position: Australian Laureate Fellow
Email: halpstat@ms.unimelb.edu.au
Room: 189
Ext. Number: 49682
Webpage: www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~halpstat/
Research Group:- Statistics
Interests: - Statistics

Recent Publications:

  • Reanalysis of ƒ-statistic gravitational-wave searches with the higher criticism statistic (2013) more
  • Deconvolution estimation of mixture distributions with boundaries (2013) more
  • NONPARAMETRIC REGRESSION WITH HOMOGENEOUS GROUP TESTING DATA (2012) more
  • Achieving near perfect classification for functional data (2012) more
  • Choosing trajectory and data type when classifying functional data (2012) more

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Current Postgraduate Supervision:

Luke GANDOLFO "To be advised"
Peter HICKEY "The statistical analysis of data from high-throughput assays for studying DNA methylation."
Shaoke LEI "nonparametric methods for complex data"
Jason LEUNG
Belinda PHIPSON "Statistical methods for next generation RNA and DNA sequencing"
Jason TRAN "On convergence rates for nonparametric regression with errors in variables"

Past Postgraduate Supervision:

Sandy Jane CLARKE "Some problems in the analysis of high-dimensional data"
Farshid JAMSHIDI "Problems in nonparametric curve estimation"
Hugh MILLER "Statistical methods for the analysis of high-dimensional data"
Tung PHAM "Statistical inverse problems"

Current PGD/Masters(RT) Students:

Leon DI STEFANO

Past Honours/PGD/Masters(RT) Students:

Ngoc Mai TRAN "An introduction to theoretical properties of functional principal component analysis"
Hui-Shyang LEE
Simon WALTER

Recent Grant History:

Year(s) Source Type Title
2012 - 2016 ARC ARC Laureate Fellowship NEW DIRECTIONS, NEW PROBLEMS AND NEW DATA TYPES IN STATISTICAL SCIENCE
2009 - 2013 ARC Discovery Inverse and related problems in statistics
2008 - 2012 ARC Discovery Theory and application of computer-intensive, nonparametric statistical methods
2007 - 2011 ARC Federation Fellowship Nonparametric Statistical Methods - New Directions, Theory and Applications
2003 - 2010 ARC Centre Of Excellence ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems

Awards:

Year Name Organisation
2013 Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences National Academy of Sciences
2013 Officer of the Order of Australia Australian Government
2012 Samuel S. Wilks Award American Statistical Association
2011 Australian Laureate Fellow Australian Government
2011 Guy Medal in Silver Royal Statistical Society
2010 Szekeres Medal Australian Mathematical Society
2009 Moyal Medal Macquarie University
2009 Challis Award and Lectures University of Florida
2008 Distinguished Achievement Award International Chinese Statistical Association
2007 Gottfried E. Noether Senior Scholar Award American Statistical Association
2007 Matthew Flinders Medal and Lecture Australian Academy of Sciences
2006 Australian Federation Fellow Australian Government
2004 Australian Citation Laureate Award for Mathematics Thomson ISI
2003 Centenary Medal Australian Government
2002 Award for an Outstanding Paper on Statistical Applications American Statistical Association
2002 Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Royal Society of Edinburgh
2002 Australian Professorial Fellow Australian Government
2000 Centennial Professorship (2000-2002) London School of Economics
2000 Fellow of the Royal Society of London Royal Society of London
1996 Fellow of the American Statistical Association American Statistical Association
1994 Hannan Medal Australian Academy of Sciences
1990 Pitman Medal Statistical Society of Australia
1989 Honorary Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society Royal Statistical Society
1989 Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies Award Institute of Mathematical Statistics
1989 Lyle Medal Australian Academy of Sciences
1987 Fellow of The Australian Academy of Sciences Australian Academy of Sciences
1986 Edgeworth David Medal Royal Society of NSW
1986 Rollo Davidson Prize Cambridge University
1986 Medal of the Australian Mathematical Society Australian Mathematical Society
1984 Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Responsibilities:

Academic Board member

Committees:

Management Committee
Strategic Planning Committee