Curriculum Vitae of Joshua Bon
For a full CV please email me (link in side bar).
Education
- Doctorate of Philosophy (Statistics)
- Queensland University of Technology, 2022 (expected)
- Master of Philosophy (Statistics)
- Bachelor of Computer and Mathematical Sciences with Honours in Mathematical Statistics
- University of Western Australia, 2016
- Bachelor of Commerce
- University of Western Australia, 2014
Work experience
- Research Assistant in Research Methods and Social Statistics at the Institute of Social Science Research, University of Queensland (Full-time, Dec 2015 - Dec 2016).
- Dual-frame telephone survey research
- Election polling research on undecided voters
- Model selection and averaging for categorical data on Australian households
- Statistical consulting for several major industry partners
- Statistical Support Officer at Data Analysis Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia (Part-time, Dec 2013 - Oct 2015).
- Model fitting, development, evaluation, and exploratory data analysis
- Algorithms for spatial data
- Statistical and programming quality assurance
- Data retrieval, cleaning, and analysis
- Creating client-ready plots diagrams in R
- Research Assistant in Economics at the University of Western Australia (Part-time, Aug 2014 - Oct 2015).
- Researching robust modelling of structural economic parameters to infer the effect of monetary policy on the US economy with Dr. Leandro Magnusson
- Parallel Matlab programming combined with use of R and Stata
- Reviewing econometric literature
- Interpreting and discussing results
- Data retrieval, exploratory analysis and maintenance of dataset
- Departmental Research Assistant in Economics at the University of Western Australia (Part-time, Nov 2012 - Dec 2013).
- Writing, editing and proof reading of economic papers
- Data collection, processing and manipulation
- Compilation and production of the Economics Discipline Annual Report
Publications
Bon, J.J., Lee, A. & Drovandi, C. (2021), Statistics and Computing, Volume 31, Issue 62.
Bon, J.J., Baffour, B., Spallek, M., & Haynes, M. (2020), Journal of Official Statistics, Volume 36, Issue 2, Pages 275-296.
Borg, D.N., Bon, J.J., Sainani, K.L. et al. Sports Medicine (2020) 10.1007/s40279-020-01298-5
Bon, J.J., Ballard, T. & Baffour, B. (2019), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series A), Volume 182, Issue 2, Pages 467-493.
Bon, J.J., Murray, K. & Turlach, B.A. (2019). Statistics and Computing, Volume 29, Issue 1, Pages 79-98.
Baffour, B., Roselli, T., Haynes, M., Bon, J.J., Western, M., Clemens, S. Preventive Medicine Reports (2017). Volume 7, September 2017, Pages 91-98.
Baffour, B., Bon, J.J. (2016). Does Donald Trump "defy all odds"? Significance.
Talks
November 29, 2022
Seminar at Bayes4Health and CoSInES Seminar, University of Oxford, UK (Virtual)
May 21, 2020
Seminar at MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (Virtual)
January 06, 2020
Seminar at Duke University, Durham, North Carlonia, United States of America
November 29, 2019
Talk at Data Science for Social GOod Symposium, QUT, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
November 19, 2019
Talk at OzViz Workshop, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
July 20, 2019
Talk at Joint Statistical Meetings, Denver, Colorado, United States of America
July 10, 2019
Talk at University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
June 06, 2018
Talk at International Total Survey Error Workshop, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
November 30, 2017
Talk at Biometrics by the Border, Mantra on Salt Beach, Kingscliff, Queensland, Australia
September 27, 2017
Talk at Young Statisticians' Conference (Australia), Twin Towns Conference Centre, Tweed Heads, Queensland, Australia
May 09, 2017
Talk at Statistical Society of Australia (WA Branch) Young Statistician Meeting, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia
December 06, 2016
Talk at Australian Statistical Conference, Hotel Realm, Canberra, ACT, Australia
October 27, 2016
Talk at Symposium of the Life Course Centre, Longitudinal Data Conference, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Teaching
2020
Lecturing at Queensland University of Technology
2020
Lecturing at Queensland University of Technology
2019
Lecturing at Queensland University of Technology
2018
Lecturing at Queensland University of Technology
2016
Workshop at Wizard Corporate Training Centre, Longitudinal Data Conference
Service and leadership
- Sunny Street, Queensland
- Sunny Street is a doctor and nursing mobile outreach unit providing primary healthcare and complex coordination services for homeless and vulnerable individuals and families. I provide pro bono data visualisation and volunteer as support staff at their clinics. http://sunnystreet.org
- Student ambassador for SSA at userR! conference, Brisbane 2018
- The useR! conference is the annual international conference for the R programming language
- Program Chair, SSA Young Statisticians Conference, Coolangatta 2017
- Held on the Gold Coast in Queensland over 3 days in September, the Statistical Society’s event attracts young (and young at heart) statisticians from all over Australia. Keynote speakers were Genevera Allen, Di Cook, Bronwyn Harch, and Violetta Misiorek. Kerrie Mengerson also provided a workshop session. http://ysc2017.com.au/
- Organising committee member, 2015 SSA WA Young Statisticians’ Workshop
- A one-day workshop held in Perth primarily for young statisticians in Western Australian.
- OzHarvest Volunteer
- A food rescue program that reduces food waste by redistributing unwanted food from supermarkets to community organisations. I began volunteering once or twice a week to redistribute food from different stores in 2018.http://www.ozharvest.org
- Youth Food Movement (YFM)