Alec Stephenson

Alec Stephenson is a Senior Data Scientist at CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia, and holds an Adjunct Associate Professorship at Swinburne University.

His research interests include extreme event modelling and statistical computing, and he has played a key role in disseminating extreme event methodology by authoring a series of packages in the open source language R (evd, evdBayes, evir, ismev).

He previously held the post of Assistant Professor at National University of Singapore.

Education

• PhD Lancaster University (2001 — 2003)
• MSc University of Oxford (2000 — 2000)
• BSc University of Warwick (1997 — 1999)

Companies

• Senior Data Scientist CSIRO (2012)
• Assistant Professor Swinburne University of Technology (2008 — 2012)
• Assistant Professor National University of Singapore (2005 — 2008)
• Post-doctorate Researcher Macquarie University (2004 — 2005)