Resume - Garth Tarr

Garth Tarr
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Education
2010–2014 Doctor of Philosophy in Science (Mathematical Statistics), University of Sydney.
Academic supervisors: Neville Weber and Samuel Müller
2003–2009 Bachelor of Science (Advanced) Honours I, University of Sydney.
Financial Mathematics and Statistics
2003–2008 Bachelor of Commerce, University of Sydney.
Econometrics and Finance
Publications and Presentations
Journal Articles
Tarr, G., Müller, S. and Weber, N.C. Robust estimation of precision matrices under cellwise
contamination. (Under review – revised and resubmitted)
Hendry, G.D., Morrison, K. and Tarr G. The benefits of peer review versus peer observation:
Facilitators’ experiences in a peer assisted study program. (Submitted)
2015 Tarr, G., Weber, N.C. and Müller, S. The difference of symmetric quantiles under long range
dependence. Statistics & Probability Letters, to appear. DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2014.12.022
2015 Dancer, D., Morrison, K. and Tarr, G. Measuring the effects of peer learning on students’ academic
achievement in first year business statistics. Studies in Higher Education, to appear. DOI:
10.1080/03075079.2014.916671
2012 Tarr, G., Müller, S. and Weber, N.C. A robust scale estimator based on pairwise means. Journal
of Nonparametric Statistics. 24(1) 187–199. DOI: 10.1080/10485252.2011.621424
2012 Tarr, G. Small sample performance of quantile regression confidence intervals. Journal of Statistical
Computation and Simulation. 82(1) 81–94. DOI: 10.1080/00949655.2010.527844
Theses
2014 Tarr, G. Quantile Based Estimation of Scale and Dependence. PhD Thesis. University of Sydney,
Australia.
2009 Tarr, G. Quantile Regression Confidence Intervals: Theoretical Exposition and Empirical Findings.
Honours Thesis. University of Sydney, Australia.
Software
2015 Tarr, G., Müller, S. and Welsh, A. mplot: Graphical model stability and model selection procedures.
R package. github.com/garthtarr/mplot
Invited Talks
2014 Visualising variable selection: the mplot package. University of Wollongong, NIASRA Fellows
Research Meeting, Goulburn, Australia.
2014 Robust methods and model selection. Meat Standards Australia Pathways Committee Meeting,
Sydney, Australia.
2013 Robust estimation of scale and covariance with Pn and its application to PCA. University of NSW,
School of Mathematics and Statistics Seminar , Sydney, Australia.
2013 Robust estimation of scale and covariance with Pn and its application to precision matrix estimation.
University of Sydney, School of Mathematics and Statistics Seminar , Sydney, Australia.
Conference Presentations
2015 Visualising variable selection with mplot. International Conference on Robust Statistics, Kolkata,
India. (Invited speaker)
2015 Long range dependant. Much more than U-statistics: A symposium to celebrate Neville C. Weber,
Sydney, Australia. (Invited speaker)
2014 A pairwise approach to estimating precision and covariance matrices under cellwise contamination.
Robust Statistics and Extremes, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
2014 Robust estimation of precision matrices under cellwise contamination. International Conference
on Computational Statistics, Geneva, Switzerland.
2013 Robust scale and autocovariance estimation. European Meeting of Statisticians, Budapest,
Hungary.
2013 Robust covariance estimation via quantiles of pairwise means and applications. International
Conference on Robust Statistics, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
2013 Robust scale estimation with extensions. Young Statisticians Conference, Melbourne, Australia.
2012 Robust covariance estimation with Pn . Australian Statistical Conference, Adelaide, Australia.
2011 Efficient and robust scale estimation. International Conference on Robust Statistics, Valladolid,
Spain.
2009 Quantile regression confidence intervals: theoretical exposition and empirical findings. Young
Statisticians Conference, Sydney, Australia.
Professional Experience
Research and Consulting
current Postdoctoral Fellow, Australian National University.
Supervisors: Alan Welsh and Samuel Müller, Mathematical Sciences Institute
2013–2014 Research Associate, University of Sydney.
Supervisor: Neville Weber, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Science
2009 Research Assistant, University of Sydney.
Supervisors: Richard Gerlach and Vasilis Sarafidis, Business Analytics, Business School
2008–2014 Data Scientist, University of Sydney.
Business School and Faculty of Science
Learning and Teaching
2013 Lecturer, University of Sydney.
13 lectures on statistical inference to 180 first year advance students
2011–2013 Postgraduate Teaching Fellow, University of Sydney.
Coordinate and lecture the statistics component of two pharmacy units (280 students/unit)
2010–2013 Tutor and Demonstrator Training Program Mentor, University of Sydney.
Faculty of Science
2008–2013 Tutor, University of Sydney.
12+ units in econometrics and statistics at the undergraduate and postgraduate level
2005–2008 Peer Assisted Study Sessions Facilitator and Team Mentor, University of Sydney.
Business School
Government and Industry
2008 Intern Research Economist, ABARE, Canberra.
Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics
2007 Private Equity Intern, Nikko Principal Investments Australia Pty Ltd, Sydney.
Now known as Tasman Capital Partners
Conference Organisation
2014-2015 Co-convenor of “Much more than U-statistics: A symposium to celebrate Neville C. Weber”
2012-2013 Program committee member, SSAI Young Statisticians Conference 2013
2010-2011 Program chair, SSAI Young Statisticians Conference 2011 Organising Committee
Committees and Boards
since 2014 College contact for the early career researcher network at ANU
2012-2013 Postgraduate representative, University of Sydney School of Mathematics and Statistics Research
Committee
2011-2013 Postgraduate representative, University of Sydney School of Mathematics and Statistics Board
2011 Student representative, Faculty of Science Board, University of Sydney
Professional Memberships
since 2009 Statistical Society of Australia Inc.
since 2014 American Statistical Association
since 2011 Australian Mathematical Society
Refereeing
Statistics and Probability Letters; Festschrift in honour of Hannu Oja
Achievements
Competitive Grants and Funding
2015
2013
2011-2013
2011-2012
2010-2013
Australian National University Early Career Researcher Travel Grant. $2,100
Statistical Society of Australia Inc. Golden Jubilee Travel Grant. $1,000
University of Sydney Statistics Research Group funding. $3,100
University of Sydney Postgraduate Research Support Scheme funding. $2,900
Australian Postgraduate Award, University of Sydney. $81,500
2012 Student diversity: What do we know about our students and how does it affect our teaching?
Widening participation grant with Meloni Muir, Helen Drury, Kellie Morison and Fiona White.
$25,000
2010 Knowing your students: A faculty wide initiative to provide student demographic data to support
curriculum change. Small TIES grant with Kellie Morrison, Kai Riemer, Henriikka Clarkeburn and
Philip Seltsikas. $7,856.88
Awards
2013 First prize for the best oral presentation by a student at the Australian Young Statisticians
Conference. $300
2012 EJG Pitman Prize for the most outstanding talk presented by a young statistician at the Australian
Statistical Conference. $500
2011 University of Sydney Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Systems that Achieve Collective Excellence in
Teaching and Learning with Kellie Morison and Jessica Morr. $10,000
2010 University of Sydney Business School Excellence in Tutoring Award. $1,000
2010-2012 Dean’s Citation for Tutoring, University of Sydney Business School
2008 Outstanding Senior Facilitator Award (competitive across all Australasian PASS programs)
Skills
Theoretical
I have a broad base of core knowledge stemming from undergraduate majors in econometrics,
finance and mathematical statistics and tutoring more than 12 distinct units at both undergraduate
and postgraduate levels across statistics and econometrics.
My research has touched on diverse topics including robustness in univariate and multivariate
scenarios; investigations into the properties of U -statistics and U -quantile statistics; time series
analysis, including asymptotic treatment of short and long range dependent processes; inference
for quantile regression models; and model selection in linear, generalised linear and mixed models.
Communication
I have a sophisticated writing style exemplified through theses, journal articles and consulting
reports.
I have a demonstrated ability to communicate complex ideas clearly. This has been recognised
through awards for the most outstanding talk presented by a young statistician at the 2012
Australian Statistical Conference and the 2013 Young Statisticians Conference as well as numerous
teaching citations.
I work effectively within team environments, for example on a number of applied research projects
and organising committees for conferences, and have proven leadership and mentoring abilities.
Computational
I am an expert R user with experience developing Shiny based web interfaces; using Rmarkdown
for reproducible research; and package development utilising parallel processing techniques.
Matlab/Scilab; Python; LATEX and TikZ; d3.js; familiarity with OS X, UNIX and Windows systems.
Leadership and Mentoring
In my role as the head mentor for a tutor development program and peer assisted learning program
I developed leadership and organisational skills. I regularly take time to support and share my
experiences with colleagues and research students. I am currently a college contact with the early
career researcher network at ANU and have been an active member on the organising committee
of four conferences.

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