ACEMS – University of Queensland Node

Leonardo holds a PhD from Aarhus University, Denmark in the field of Applied Probability. He is a recipient of an ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award for the period 2013-2016.

Leonardo's current main research interests revolve around heavy-tailed distributions with a particular focus on their asymptotic behaviour, numerical approximation and statistical inference. Other research interests include Extreme Value Theory, Lévy Processes, Stochastic Simulation with certain applications in Queueing and Risk.

Thomas Taimre is a lecturer of Mathematics and Statistics and holds a PhD in Mathematics from The University of Queensland, Australia.

He is the co-author of the Handbook of Monte Carlo Methods, which provides a hands-on guide to the theory, algorithms, techniques, and applications of Monte Carlo methods.  His current research is at the interface of probability theory, computer simulation, and mathematical optimisation with biological and other scientific, engineering, and finance disciplines.

Dr. Yoni Nazarathy's research is in the field of operations research, applied probability, statistics, queueing networks and control. He obtained his PhD from the University of Haifa, Israel in 2009. He then spent two years as a post-doctoral researcher in the Netherlands, at the European Institute for Statistics, Probability, Stochastic Operations Research and their Applications (EURANDOM) and at CWI (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica) Amsterdam. He then spent an additional year as a Lecturer at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne where he remains an adjunct member of the Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures. As of 2012, he is a Lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Queensland. As of 2013 he is on a DECRA fellowship. At UQ he serves as the mathematics Honours Coordinator.  In the greater scientific community he contributes in several roles such as being the associate editor of the journal "Stochastic Models".  Prior to his PhD studies he was working as an software and algorithms development engineer in the field of wireless networks.