I am a Lecturer in Statistics at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. I completed my PhD in Statistics at Massey University on statistical models for earthquakes incorporating groundwater level and GPS data. Prior to my position in Dunedin, I worked 18 months as a Research Fellow working on robust estimation of volcanic hazards with the Volcanic Risk Solutions research group at Massey University. Before my PhD study, I spent a month in Tokyo as a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics. My main research interests span across statistical applications (mainly in seismic and volcanic hazards) and theories (including robust statistics, stochastic models, especially in geophysics, point process theory, and survival analysis).

At ERI, I will test a statistical model which I developed for extracting precursory signals from GPS data for earthquake forecasting. ERI is an ideal place for a research of this kind as Japan has one of the longest GPS records and has experienced many (large) earthquakes in the same time window. I am looking forward to establishing collaboration with scientists at the forefront of earthquake research.