Projects per year
Personal profile
Research interests
Discovering, designing and building statistical models that better population and planet health through:
- Variable selection and feature extraction solutions for large and complex data
- Statistical model building for better and more accurate prediction
- Correlated, clustered and complex data analysis
- Classification and improved prediction methods for multiplatform data
- Development of regularization methods for high-dimensional data
- Resampling-based stability information
- Robust selection and estimation methods including when data contains outliers, errors or some of the information is missing
- Analysis of multi-layered and structured data in bioinformatics, microbiome, organ transplant and neuroscience applications
Research engagement
- Industry and government partners are welcome to contact me to explore projects and partnerships that would benefit from the capability of my research group
- Reliable and accurate statistical solutions for modern complex data (Australian Research Council funded, as CI)
- Fast fexible feature selection for high dimensional challenging data (Australian Research Council funded, as CI)
- Cost-Utility Comparison of Down-Titration Strategies for Safer and More Efficient Use of Biologics in Adults with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Psoriatic Arthritis (NHMRC funded, as AI)
- Better Outcomes in Inflammatory Arthritis (NHMRC funded, as AI)
Biography
Samuel Muller is a Professor of Statistics and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association with expertise in variable selection and inference for statistically challenging data. He is the inaugural Head of School in the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences and a Theory and Methods Editor for the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics. He served a full term on the Australian Research Council College of Experts until 2021. Before joining Macquarie University, he led the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sydney until August 2020 after four years as the Associate Dean Research Education for the Faculty of Science at the University of Sydney.
Research student supervision
Samuel Muller has supervised to completion 11 Postdocs, 14 PhDs, 2 Masters of Research students and 13 Honours students. Currently, he supervises 3 Postdocs, 3 PhD students and 1 Masters of Research student.
Education/Academic qualification
Mathematics, PhD, Endpoint, Tail Index, and Support Estimation in Extreme Value Theory, University of Bern
Award Date: 1 Nov 2002
Statistics and Insurance Mathematics, Diploma (MSc), The Robustness of the Friedman Test, University of Bern
Award Date: 1 Oct 1998
External positions
Honorary Professor, University of Sydney
1 Sept 2020 → 31 Aug 2026
College of Experts, Member, Australian Research Council
1 Jan 2019 → 31 Dec 2021
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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DP23: Reliable and accurate statistical solutions for modern complex data
Welsh, A. H., Hui, F., Muller, S. & Cantoni, E.
21/02/23 → 20/02/26
Project: Research
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USYD Led: CRE for Better Outcomes in Arthritis and Autoimmune Diseases
March, L., Thomas, R., Lassere, M., Buchbinder, R., Hill, C., Keen, H. I., Wechalekar, M. D., Munro, J., Figtree, G. A., Schofield, D., Xue, M., El-Omar, E., Muller, S., Bereza-Malcolm, L., Sinnathurai, P., Singh-Grewal, D., Lester, S., Willers, C., Youssef, P., Proudman, S. M. & Worsley, H.
1/12/21 → 30/06/26
Project: Research
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NHMRC: CRE for Better Outcomes in Inflammatory Arthritis
March, L., Thomas, R., Lassere, M., Buchbinder, R., Hill, C., Keen, H. I., Wechalekar, M. D., Munro, J., Figtree, G. A., Schofield, D., Xue, M., El-Omar, E., Muller, S., Bereza-Malcolm, L., Sinnathurai, P., Singh-Grewal, D., Lester, S., Willers, C., Youssef, P. & Proudman, S. M.
1/12/21 → 1/12/26
Project: Research
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MRFF: Cost-Utility Comparison of Down-Titration Strategies for Safer and More Efficient Use of Biologics in Adults with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Psoriatic Arthritis
March, L., Buchbinder, R., Lassere, M., Proudman, S. M., Thomas, R., Schofield, D., Xue, M., Wechalekar, M. D., Whittle, S. L., Sinnathurai, P., Keen, H. I., Hill, C., Youssef, P., Benham, H., Bereza-Malcolm, L., Willers, C., Schachna, L., Muller, S., Perera, C. & Tymms, K.
1/08/21 → 31/07/25
Project: Research
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USYD Led: Cost-Utility Comparison of Down-Titration Strategies for Safer and More Efficient Use of Biologics in Adults with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Psoriatic Arthritis
March, L., Buchbinder, R., Lassere, M., Proudman, S. M., Thomas, R., Schofield, D., Xue, M., Wechalekar, M. D., Whittle, S. L., Sinnathurai, P., Keen, H. I., Hill, C., Youssef, P., Benham, H., Bereza-Malcolm, L., Willers, C., Schachna, L., Muller, S., Perera, C., Tymms, K. & Worsley, H.
1/06/21 → 31/05/25
Project: Research
Research Outputs
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Advancing student outcome predictions through generative adversarial networks
Farhood, H., Joudah, I., Beheshti, A. & Muller, S., Dec 2024, In: Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence. 7, p. 1-13 13 p., 100293.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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COMBSS: best subset selection via continuous optimization
Moka, S., Liquet, B., Zhu, H. & Muller, S., Apr 2024, In: Statistics and Computing. 34, 2, p. 1-22 22 p., 75.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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CR-Lasso: Robust cellwise regularized sparse regression
Su, P., Tarr, G., Muller, S. & Wang, S., Sept 2024, In: Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. 197, p. 1-14 14 p., 107971.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Evaluating and enhancing artificial intelligence models for predicting student learning outcomes
Farhood, H., Joudah, I., Beheshti, A. & Muller, S., Sept 2024, In: Informatics. 11, 3, p. 1-17 17 p., 46.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Likelihood-based surrogate dimension reduction
Nghiem, L. H., Hui, F. K. C., Muller, S. & Welsh, A. H., Feb 2024, In: Statistics and Computing. 34, 1, p. 1-15 15 p., 51.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Prizes
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Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI)
Muller, Samuel (Recipient), 4 Jun 2021
Prize: Honorary award
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Member of the Honor Society of Research Scientists and Engineers Sigma Xi
Muller, Samuel (Recipient), 2 Aug 2024
Prize: Honorary award