Meet our Team
Simon Bonner
Director
Dr. Bonner is an Assistant Professor jointly appointed to the Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences and the Department of Biology at the University of Western Ontario. His research focuses on ecological statistics, Bayesian inference, and statistical computing. He completed his Ph.D. at Simon Fraser University and spent two years as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia and four years as an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky before joining Western in 2015.
Website: https://simon.bonners.ca/bonner-lab/wpblog/
Email: sbonner6@uwo.ca
Camila de Souza
Vice-Director
Dr. de Souza is an Associate Professor in Statistics and Data Science at the University of Western Ontario. Prior to Western, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Shah Lab for Computational Cancer Biology at the B.C. Cancer Agency Research Centre. She completed her Ph.D. in Statistics at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Her research program consists of developing new statistical methods to analyze large and complex data structures arising from various areas in the Natural Sciences, Health, and Engineering.
Website: https://www.desouzacpe.com/
Email: camila.souza@uwo.ca
Guowen Huang
Vice-Director
Dr. Huang is an Assistant Professor in Statistics at Western University. He earned his PhD in Statistics from the University of Glasgow and previously held postdoctoral research positions at National Tsing Hua University and the University of Toronto. Before joining Western, Dr. Huang was an Associate Professor at Shantou University. His research specializes in spatial statistics, particularly the statistical modeling of air pollution data and its effects on human health.
Email: ghuan23@uwo.ca
Yueru Dong
Consultant
Yueru is a second-year PhD student in Statistics at Western University, supervised by Dr. Grace Y. Yi. She holds a bachelor's degree from Xiamen University in China and received MSc from Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on dynamic treatment regimes, particularly addressing issues related to missing data and data misspecification. Yueru is eager to assist others with data analysis using statistical software, providing valuable insights and support for various projects.
Jiaxuan Lu
Consultant
Jiaxuan is a third-year Ph.D. candidate in Statistics at the University of Western Ontario. He received his BSc in Mathematics and Statistical Science and his MSc in Data Science at the University College London. Currently, his research focuses on High-dimensional data and statistical modeling.
Zixuan Yang
Consultant
I'm a third year PhD student in statistics supervised by Professor Douglas Woolford. My primary research interest is wildland fire occurrence prediction, and am currently working on projects related to short-term fine scale fire occurrence prediction with spatio-temporal models. I'm happy to help the clients with my knowledge in statistics.
Sahab Zandi
Consultant
Sahab is a fifth-year PhD student in the Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences at Western University. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Tehran and two master’s degrees in mechanical engineering and financial modelling from Western University. His research interests include machine learning, graph neural networks, and social network analysis, with a focus on applications in financial analytics and credit risk modelling.
