International Day Of Women in Statistics and Data Science: Full Schedule

Registration opens August 15th at www.idwsds.org.

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03:00 UTC

Tuesday October 6, 2026 03:00 - 04:00 UTC

An Invited Session Proposal from Statistics Society of Australia (SSA) Women in Statistics Network Supported by the The International Statistical Institute (ISI) Committee on Women in Statistics

Session Title: Breaking barriers

Session Organiser: Alysha De Livera

Session Chair: Ayse Aysin Bilgin

The progression of the talks:

curiosity → identity → contribution → legacy
aspiration → exploration → contribution → impact

Speakers:
1. Jayamini Liyanage, [email protected], La Trobe University, Australia, (PhD Student)
2. Melissa Middleton, PhD, GStat, [email protected], Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Australia, (Early Career)
3. Alysha De Livera, PhD, AStat, [email protected], Latrobe University, Australia, (Mid Career)
4. Ayse Aysin Bilgin, PhD, [email protected], Macquarie University, Australia Professor (Late Career)

Speakers

Alysha De Livera

La Trobe University

Dr Alysha De Livera is Co-Chair of the newly established Women in Statistics and Data Science Special Interest Group of the Statistical Society of Australia, and previously served as Co-Chair of its Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Committee. She is an academic in Statistics in the... Read More →

Ayse Aysin Bilgin

Macquarie University, Australia

Honorary Prof Ayse Aysin Bilgin is a Vice President of International Statistical Institute (2025-2029), co-chair of Statistics Education Section of Statistical Society of Australia and was the President of the International Association for Statistical Education (IASE).
She has held a range of academic leadership roles, contributing to curriculum design, program development, and institutional strategy in teaching and learning at Macquarie University in Australia. Bilgin is recognised for her contributions to the scholarship of teaching and learni... Read More →

Jayamini Liyanage

La Trobe University

Jayamini Liyanage is a final-year Biostatistics PhD student at La Trobe University, Melbourne, where her research focuses on developing multivariate meta-analysis methods for analysing high-dimensional biological data. She has published statistical methods and developed an R package... Read More →

Melissa Middleton

Murdoch Children's Research Institute

Dr Melissa Middleton is an early-career biostatistician at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Melbourne. Her work methodological work focuses on missing data methods and adaptive platform trial design, alongside her collaborative work in clinical trials and observational... Read More →

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