Dr. Arief Gusnanto obtained his PhD in Biostatistics in December 2004 from the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, with a research focus on statistical modelling and inference in high-dimensional data from modern biological and chemical experiments. He then started his position as a Postdoctoral Research Statistician in the Medical Research Council-Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge, UK, in February 2005, where he worked on the development of statistical methods in genetics and molecular biology, with applications in identifying genetic markers for myocardial infarction (heart attack). In August 2007, he started his position as lecturer (and later as Associate Professor in 2017) in the Department of Statistics, School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, UK. His research focus is in the development of statistical and data science methodologies in medicine, genomics & molecular biology, chemistry and spectroscopy, engineering, linguistics, and complex high-dimensional data. He was the deputy project coordinator for IMforFUTURE, an EU project for PhD training network with a budget of almost 3 million Euro, involving 11 partners from five countries. He has supervised 14 PhD students to completion and is a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.
