Associate ProfessorEllis Patrick
Associate Professor
Faculty of Science
BIO
A/Prof Ellis Patrick is an applied statistician and bioinformatician who develops statistical and computational methods for extracting biological insight from high-dimensional molecular and cellular data, with a current focus on spatial omics. He is an Associate Professor and Director of Research Division (Statistics) in the School of Mathematics and Statistics, Cluster Lead of Bioinformatics in the Sydney Precision Data Science Centre and a Faculty Member at The Westmead Institute for Medical Research. He completed his PhD in statistical bioinformatics at the University of Sydney and subsequently held computational biology appointments at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
A/Prof Patrick holds an NHMRC Leadership Fellowship (L1) and was previously supported through an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award fellowship (2020-2022). His research has attracted more than $20 million in competitive funding from the NHMRC, MRFF, NIH and other agencies. He has published more than 100 manuscripts in high-impact journals and developed nine software packages through the Bioconductor project, an international platform for open-source software for biomedical data analysis in R.
SCHOOL
- School of Mathematics and Statistics
AVAILABILITY
- Research supervision