Shila Ghazanfar

Dr Shila Ghazanfar is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow at the University of Sydney, and is an expert in statistical and computational analysis of spatial transcriptomics and single cell RNA-seq data. Dr Ghazanfar completed her undergraduate and PhD studies in statistics and statistical bioinformatics at The University of Sydney, before completing a Royal Society Newton International Fellowship at The University of Cambridge in computational biology. Dr Ghazanfar's interests are in developing statistical bioinformatic and biomedical data science approaches for the meaningful integration of complex and high dimensional biological datasets, particularly across various technological or omics modalities, and using these statistical and computational techniques to extract novel biological insights. Her multidisciplinary knowledge and skills in statistics, statistical bioinformatics, and computational biology enable her to devise strategies to jointly model the processes generating diverse data sources.