Dr Belinda Chiera is the Program Director of Service Teaching and a Senior Lecturer in Statistics in the School of ITMS. Belinda is also an adjunct faculty member at John Hopkins University (Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, Advanced Academics Programs).
Belinda's research is highly influenced by Government and Industry needs and has a varied range of interests ranging from social network analysis, modelling of high-dimensional communications networks to detect the onset of a terrorist attack, either online or to be carried out in person. She has also spent many years working on environmental modelling problems including the impact of the El Niño Southern Oscillation on the environment as well as the... Read more
About me
Dr Belinda Chiera is the Program Director of Service Teaching and a Senior Lecturer in Statistics in the School of ITMS. Belinda is also an adjunct faculty member at John Hopkins University (Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, Advanced Academics Programs).
Belinda's research is highly influenced by Government and Industry needs and has a varied range of interests ranging from social network analysis, modelling of high-dimensional communications networks to detect the onset of a terrorist attack, either online or to be carried out in person. She has also spent many years working on environmental modelling problems including the impact of the El Niño Southern Oscillation on the environment as well as the modelling of air quality affected by vehicle pollution. 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.
With a long and proud history of engaging with industry, Belinda has had many great experiences including working with DST Group, Port Adelaide Football Club, Environment Protection Authority, South Australia Police to name a few. She also works on a number of projects across UniSA, with a particular focus on the student wellbeing and data analytics in support of student learning and academic success.
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, keeps teaching light and enjoyable, and loves to build websites and use her skills in Illustrator and Photoshop to help produce learning materials. 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.
Exploring Fusion with Multiple Types of Uncertainty, Department of Defence - Defence Support Group, 01/11/2016 - 30/06/2017
Research
Research since 2008 is shown below. To see earlier years visit ORCID or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
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| 2017 |
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| 2017 |
3
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| 2014 |
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| 2010 |
Chiera, BA, Filar, JA, Zachary, DS & Gordon, AH 2010, 'Comparative Forecasting and a Test for Persistence in the EI Nino Southern Oscillation', in Jerzy Filar & Alian Haurie, Uncertainty and Environmental Decision Making: A Handbook of Research and Best Practice. |
| Year | Output |
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| 2019 |
3
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| 2018 |
Open access
5
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| 2018 |
Open access
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| 2018 |
4
3
6
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| 2017 |
Open access
6
5
167
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| 2017 |
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| 2017 |
Open access
1
1
33
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| 2016 |
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| 2016 |
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| 2014 |
12
8
1
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| 2014 |
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| 2013 |
Open access
10
7
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| 2008 |
1
1
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| 2016 |
Open access
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| 2014 |
7
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| 2013 |
Open access
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| 2013 |
Open access
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| 2013 |
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| 2013 |
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| 2012 |
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| 2011 |
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| 2011 |
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| 2010 |
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| 2008 |
Arvidsson, A, Chiera, BA, Krzesinki, A & Taylor, P 2008, 'A distribution scheme for value-based bandwith reconfiguration'. |
| 2008 |
Arvidsson, A, Krzesinki, A, Chiera, BA & Taylor, P 2008, 'A Distributed Scheme for Value-Based Bandwith Reconfiguration'. |
| 2008 |
Open access
4
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| 2017 |
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| 2017 |
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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 |
|---|---|
| California State University | UNITED STATES |
| CRP Henri Tudor | LUXEMBOURG |
| Ministry of Health Jakarta | INDONESIA |
| National Centre for Vocational Education | AUSTRALIA |
| National University of Rosario | ARGENTINA |
| North Carolina State University - Raleigh | UNITED STATES |
| San Francisco State University | UNITED STATES |
| South Australian Environment Protection Authority | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Adelaide | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Connecticut | UNITED STATES |
| University of Hamburg | GERMANY |
| University of South Australia | 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 |
MemberAssociation for Computing Machinery |
2017 |
MemberWomen in Innovation and Technology, WIT, SA |
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 |
|---|---|
| Carbon reductions from composting food waste for food production modelling GHG reduction and abatement in urban recycling models | Current |
| Development of an optimal management approach for dominant supply chain with long distribution channel? | Current |
| Identity and participation in citizen science | Current |
| Online manipulation in social media | Current |
| Quantifying financial health and automating financial decision making using maching learning | Current |
| Sociodemographic and time-use predictors of first-year university student success: ATAR and beyond | Current |
| Sustainability and the impact of building technology | Current |
| Input-output analysis on relationships between Australian economic system and waste management | Completed |
| Mathematical modelling of bacterial metabolism | 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 |
