Professor Belinda Chiera is the Deputy Director of the UniSA Industrial AI Research Centre and a Professor of Statistics (STEM). Belinda is also an adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins University (Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, Advanced Academics Programs).
Her expertise spans a wide range of interests and applications in highly complex real-world systems. Her research focuses predominantly on the themes of pattern recognition, anomaly detection, early warning systems, network modelling, contextual visualisation and data-driven decision-making. She is motivated by inventive problem-solving to develop custom models and tools that combine established theory with the latest advances in modelling and data analytics ... Read more
About me
Professor Belinda Chiera is the Deputy Director of the UniSA Industrial AI Research Centre and a Professor of Statistics (STEM). Belinda is also an adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins University (Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, Advanced Academics Programs).
Her expertise spans a wide range of interests and applications in highly complex real-world systems. Her research focuses predominantly on the themes of pattern recognition, anomaly detection, early warning systems, network modelling, contextual visualisation and data-driven decision-making. She is motivated by inventive problem-solving to develop custom models and tools that combine established theory with the latest advances in modelling and data analytics of real-world systems.
Translation of her research is found in environmental applications including monitoring of air quality affected by vehicle and industrial pollutants, counterintelligence operations to combat terrorism, social network and social media analysis, resource management across distributed high-dimensional networks, hospital treatment programs and the Australian Football League.
Belinda has also supervised postdoctoral researchers and a number of Ph.D. students in these areas, and has had a wonderful time sharing her research interests with others. She enjoys uncovering insights hidden in large databases, and analysing 98 million observations has now become a daily occurrence for her - she refuses to be defeated by technology.
Belinda is also a passionate teacher; her focus is on taking mathematics and statistics out of the classroom and into the real world and she believes that with the right teaching approach, anyone can understand and excel in these topics. She is driven to help her students make connections between classroom material and their own worlds and tries to keep teaching light, enjoyable, and above all, relevant to industry. According to her students, she has not only made mathematics and statistics relatable to the real world, but she even manages to make it fun from time to time.
About me
IEEE, Member, South Australia Section,Association for Computing Machinery,WIT-SA Women in Innovation and Technology
About me
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| 17/04/2016 |
Cat Tracker Project (Discovery Circle) - lots of media coverage!, http://www.discoverycircle.org.au/projects/cat-tracker/ |
| 01/08/2013 |
Terrorists are just like you and me. Except they’re not., http://www.unisa.edu.au/IT-Engineering-and-the-Environment/Blog/Terrorists/#.V3uGZpOF7GI |
About me
Doctor of Philosophy University of South Australia
Bachelor of Applied Science (Industrial and Applied Mathematics) University of South Australia
Bachelor of Applied Sciecne (Mathematics and Computing) University of South Australia
Big Data
High-dimensional networks
Environmental Modelling
Teaching and Learning Analytics
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
CSIRO NGGP - UTAS - Augmented Human Operations, CSIRO-Data61, 07/08/2024 - 30/06/2029
Simulation Performance Analysis for Robustness and Key Longitudinal Events, Defence Science and Technology Group, 06/01/2025 - 11/06/2027
PrioriAnalytica Pty Ltd Scholarship, PrioriAnalytica Pty Ltd, 27/03/2023 - 26/03/2027
Enhancing the RAN’s Undersea Surveillance Minimum Viable Capability, Defence SA, 14/03/2024 - 01/01/2026
Addressing data quality challenges for the identification of online coordinated malicious information campaigns using open source intelligence., Cwth Dept of Defence-Defence Science Partnering Deed, 10/02/2022 - 30/06/2022
SA Sports and Recreational Injury Surveillance Database Project, SA Sports Medicine Association, 13/05/2020 - 12/08/2020
Social Network Construction from Publicly Available Digital Data, Defence Science and Technology Group, 15/02/2018 - 15/09/2018
Exploring Fusion with Multiple Types of Uncertainty, Cwth Dept of Defence - Defence Support Group, 01/11/2016 - 30/06/2017
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2021 |
Open access
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| 2017 |
2
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| 2017 |
3
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| 2014 |
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| 2010 |
3
1
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| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2024 |
Open access
18
369
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| 2023 |
1
1
1
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| 2022 |
Open access
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| 2019 |
Open access
11
14
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| 2019 |
22
18
9
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| 2018 |
Open access
15
4
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| 2018 |
35
28
9
|
| 2018 |
Open access
21
20
36
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| 2017 |
Open access
51
46
300
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| 2017 |
Open access
26
17
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| 2016 |
4
3
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| 2016 |
Open access
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| 2014 |
61
43
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| 2014 |
Open access
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| 2013 |
Open access
20
14
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| 2008 |
4
4
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| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2023 |
Open access
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| 2023 |
Open access
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| 2023 |
Open access
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| 2022 |
Open access
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| 2022 |
Open access
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| 2022 |
Open access
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| 2022 |
Open access
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| 2021 |
Open access
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| 2021 |
Open access
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| 2019 |
2
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| 2017 |
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| 2017 |
Open access
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| 2016 |
Open access
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| 2014 |
14
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| 2013 |
Open access
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| 2013 |
Open access
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| 2013 |
Open access
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| 2013 |
Open access
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| 2012 |
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| 2011 |
Open access
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| 2011 |
Open access
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| 2010 |
Open access
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| 2008 |
Arvidsson, A, Taylor, P, Krzesinki, A & Chiera, BA 2008, 'A distribution scheme for value-based bandwith reconfiguration'. |
| 2008 |
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| 2008 |
Chiera, BA, Taylor, P, Krzesinki, A & Arvidsson, A 2008, 'A Distributed Scheme for Value-Based Bandwith Reconfiguration'. |
| 2008 |
Open access
4
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| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2017 |
Open access
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| 2017 |
Open access
104
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Chiera, B.A., Kraetzl, M., Roughan, M. and L.B. White, 2007, Use of a Cepstral Information Norm for Anomaly Detection in a BGP-inferred Internet, Proc. 7th Australian Communications Theory Workshop, Adelaide Feb. 5-7.
White, L.B. and B.A. Chiera, 2006, An Adaptive LQG TCP Congestion Controller for the Internet, Special Issue of Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology (JTIT) 1:30-37.
Chiera, B.A. and White L.B., 2006, End-to End versus Cross-Layer Congestion Control for Wireless Networks, Proceedings of ACoRN-Newcom Workshop, Vienna, September.
Kurowicka, D., Cooke, R and B. Chiera, 2006, Uncertainty Analysis with High Dimensional Dependence Modelling, (book chapter), John Wiley and Sons Inc., Great Britain, 284 pages.
Chiera, B.A. and L.B. White, 2005, Model-Free End-to-End TCP Congestion Control, IEEE Workshop on the Internet, Telecommunications and Signal Processing. Noosa 19-21, December.
Chiera, B.A., Krzesinski, A.E. and P.G. Taylor, 2005, Some Properties of the Capacity Value Function, SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 65(4): 1407-1419.
Chiera, BA and L.B. White, 2005, A Subspace Predictive Controller for End-to-End TCP Congestion Control, Proc. 6th Aust. Communications Theory Workshop, Brisbane, Australia, Feb. 2005:39--45.
White, L.B. and B.A. Chiera, 2004, LQG Congestion Control for TCP, IEEE Workshop on the Internet, Telecommunications and Signal Processing, Adelaide 20-22 December 2004:70--75.
Chiera, B.A., Krieg M.R., Parrott J. and P.G. Taylor, 2004, Dynamic Reallocation of Capacity in Logically Fully-Connected Networks, International Journal of Network Management, 14:9-18.
Krzesinski AE, K.E. Mueller, B.A. Chiera and P.G. Taylor, 2003, A Simulation of a Bandwidth Market. Proceedings of the 6th Southern African Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC), Sept., South Africa pp 295-300.
Chiera, B.A. and P.G. Taylor, 2002, What is a Unit of Capacity Worth?, Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, 16:513-522.
Henderson, S.G., Chiera, B.A. and R.M. Cooke, 2000, Generating "Dependent" Quasi-Random Numbers, Proceedings of the 2000 Winter Simulation Conference, Orlando Florida, 10-13 December, 527-536.
Chiera, B.A. and R.M. Cooke, 2000, Dependent Quasirandom Numbers, in Cottam, M.P., Harvey, D.W., Paper, R.P. and J. Tait (eds), Foresight and Precaution, Proceedings of ESREL 2000, Edinburgh, 15-17 May, 1519-1523.
Research
Big Data
High-dimensional networks
Environmental Modelling
Teaching and Learning Analytics
External engagement & recognition
| Organisation | Country |
|---|---|
| Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies | ICELAND |
| California State University | UNITED STATES |
| Communication Centre for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing | ICELAND |
| CRP Henri Tudor | LUXEMBOURG |
| Defence Science and Technology Group | AUSTRALIA |
| Flinders University | AUSTRALIA |
| Independent Scholar | CANADA |
| Ministry of Health Jakarta | INDONESIA |
| National Centre for Vocational Education | AUSTRALIA |
| National University of Rosario | ARGENTINA |
| North Carolina State University - Raleigh | UNITED STATES |
| Private Individual | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Public Research Centre Henri Tudor | LUXEMBOURG |
| Queensland University of Technology | AUSTRALIA |
| RMIT University | AUSTRALIA |
| Ruppin Academic Center | ISRAEL |
| San Francisco State University | UNITED STATES |
| South Australian Environment Protection Authority | AUSTRALIA |
| The University of Notre Dame Australia | AUSTRALIA |
| Trinity College Dublin | IRELAND |
| Universidade Cidade de So Paulo | BRAZIL |
| University of Adelaide | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Connecticut | UNITED STATES |
| University of Geneva | SWITZERLAND |
| University of Guilan | IRAN |
| University of Hamburg | GERMANY |
| University of Iceland | ICELAND |
| University of Melbourne | AUSTRALIA |
| University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Sydney | AUSTRALIA |
| University of the Sunshine Coast | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Western Australia | AUSTRALIA |
| Victoria University of Wellington | NEW ZEALAND |
External engagement & recognition
| Engagement/recognition | Year |
|---|---|
MemberInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, South Australia Section |
2017 |
MemberWomen in Innovation and Technology, WIT, SA |
2017 |
MemberAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
2017 |
I teach Applied Statistics in the areas of Business and Health and teach advanced Statistics and programming in Python and R in Data Science.
I believe it is important to connect statistics to real-world applications and place a strong emphasis on teaching not only to student program areas, but to a student's stage of life. When searching for new inspiration for lectures, I don't have to go much further than news stories, TV - including commercials, online ratings of products and chocolate.
Statistics lives and breathes in the world around us and my aim is to help students discover statistics in their own lives and to gain a new appreciation and understanding of the world around them.
Teaching & student supervision
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
| Thesis title | Student status |
|---|---|
| 111578 -Building Robotic Hand Simulations for Satellite Repairs in Space | Current |
| An automated method of detecting, characterising and responding to radiation events in space | Current |
| Authorship attribution in social media: a focus on binary n-gram analysis introducing novel approaches | Current |
| Determining the casual relationshop between competing elements of military options | Current |
| Increasing the robustness of multi-modal object classification models against adversarial machine learning | Current |
| Modelling of the dispersion of lead in air, subsequent deposition and estimating recontamination rates in a community with an operational lead smelter | Current |
| Real-time data-driven decision making in the Australian Football League | Current |
| Reliable forecasting of the utility-scale solar farm power outpit | Current |
| Sample efficient hierarchical reinforcement learning for simulation | Current |
| Identity and participation in citizen science | Completed |
| Input-output analysis on relationships between Australian economic system and waste management | Completed |
| Machine learning for predictive modelling and risk factor discovery in health and wealth | Completed |
| Mathematical modelling of bacterial metabolism | Completed |
| Socio-demographic and time-use predictors of first-year university student success: ATAR and beyond | Completed |
| Traffic-related air pollution: modelling emissions and optimal control for exposure mitigation | Completed |
| Women and globalization : implications of increasing access to higher education | Completed |
