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Emily Neo

Emily Neo

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  • About me

    Research Data Scientist

  • Education

    • University of Sydney

      2019 - 2023
      Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Statistics and Business Analytics

      Awards:Joint winner of the Statistical Society of Australia JB Douglas Postgraduate Award (2022)Dissertation Topic: My dissertation proposes various methods targeting the ultra-high dimensional data regime, where the number of features far exceeds the sample size. Rigorous approaches for identifying significant (conditional) relationships, variable selection for predictive modelling, pathway analysis to learn mechanisms for causal discovery and demonstrations on real… Show more Awards:Joint winner of the Statistical Society of Australia JB Douglas Postgraduate Award (2022)Dissertation Topic: My dissertation proposes various methods targeting the ultra-high dimensional data regime, where the number of features far exceeds the sample size. Rigorous approaches for identifying significant (conditional) relationships, variable selection for predictive modelling, pathway analysis to learn mechanisms for causal discovery and demonstrations on real applications are provided. Show less

    • University of Sydney

      2011 - 2015
      Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) (Liberal Studies) (Honours) Quantitative Business Analysis and Accounting Honours First Class and the University Medal

      Activities and Societies: AIESEC Sydney Awards:University of Sydney Merit Scholarship for Extracurricular Involvement 2011-2014University of Sydney Honours Scholarship 2015University of Sydney Academic Merit Prize 2012, 2014Dean's Undergraduate List of Excellence in Academic Performance 20122013 University of Sydney Business School, Student Exchange Travel ScholarshipDissertation topic:My honours thesis proposed a novel and alternative method to estimate and visualise multivariate distributions through… Show more Awards:University of Sydney Merit Scholarship for Extracurricular Involvement 2011-2014University of Sydney Honours Scholarship 2015University of Sydney Academic Merit Prize 2012, 2014Dean's Undergraduate List of Excellence in Academic Performance 20122013 University of Sydney Business School, Student Exchange Travel ScholarshipDissertation topic:My honours thesis proposed a novel and alternative method to estimate and visualise multivariate distributions through adapting a network optimisation problem. The method was implemented in both R and Python, with algorithms and applications to real data. Show less

    • The University of Edinburgh

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      International Exchange Program

      Activities and Societies: UNICEF on Campus – University of Edinburgh

  • Experience

    • University of Sydney

      Feb 2015 - Jun 2015
      Business Analytics Tutor

    • Deloitte Australia

      Mar 2016 - Aug 2017
      Data Analyst | Strategic Capabilities

      As an analyst at Deloitte, I was involved in a range of projects which included product development to improve Deloitte business processes, and the delivery of bespoke analytics and insights for external clients in a range of industries (such as retail, financial services and energy).

    • Quantium

      Sept 2017 - May 2018
      Product Analyst

      In my role as a Product Analyst within the Product & Technology space at Quantium, Australia’s largest data science consultancy, I contributed to the enhancement and introduction of new services for Quantium’s Hadoop big data platform.

    • University of Sydney

      May 2018 - Aug 2023

      My role as a Data Science Research Associate focused on providing statistical consulting, machine learning and data analysis to various collaborators within the University of Sydney. I provided this technical expertise on a range of projects; including corporate bankruptcy prediction with the development of firm risk profiling tools for applications in audit, predictive models and analysis of lying in a marketplace, textual analysis and natural language processing on auditor explanatory language, and the development of novel methodology for identifying important dependencies on large-scale complex data. Show less

      • Research Associate

        May 2019 - Aug 2023

      • Data Scientist | Research Engineer

        May 2018 - May 2019

    • Next

      Nov 2023 - May 2024
      Data Scientist

    • Dunnhumby

      Jun 2024 - now
      Research Data Scientist

  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Emily Neo
      The University Medal and Honours Class I University of Sydney Dec 2015 Awarded the Business School University Medal with Business Analytics thesis: "A Network Approach to Hierarchical Archimedean Copulas, with Application to Finance"