Ellis Patrick - Westmead Institute for Medical Research

Ellis Patrick

A/Prof

Research Group Leader

PhD (Statistical Bioinformatics), Bsc (Statistics)

ellis.patrick@wimr.org.au

Biography

Associate Professor Ellis Patrick is an applied statistician and bioinformatician whose work sits at the interface of statistics and biomedical data science. He is an Associate Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sydney, a Faculty member at the Westmead Institute for Medical Research, and the Cluster Lead of Bioinformatics in the Sydney Precision Data Science Centre. He completed his PhD in statistical bioinformatics at the University of Sydney and undertook postdoctoral appointments at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. His research focuses on extracting biological and clinical insight from high-dimensional molecular and cellular data, with applications spanning infectious disease, transplantation, cardiovascular disease, neurodegeneration, and cancer. He is also committed to open and reproducible science through the development of widely used bioinformatics software.

Research interests

Bioinformatics, Statistics, image analysis

Adjunct roles

Associate Professor

School of Mathematics and Statistic, University of Sydney

Additional information

A/Prof Patrick has published over 90 manuscripts in high-impact journals with a H-index of 22 and a Field-weight-citation-index of 2.86. Further to this, he has developed nine software packages hosted on the Bioconductor project which is an international community platform for sharing software for the analysis of biomedical data in the R coding environment.

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