Geof Seawright

I graduated with a combined honours degree in Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Queensland in 1983.

After graduating I started working for Mincom, using geostatistics to develop mining software. Since then I have worked on the development of pacemakers with the Sydney firm Telectronics, worked in London with an oil and gas company, and contracted for the Main Roads Department and Telstra. I now have my own business with my main customer being Telstra.

I am also a keen mountaineer which has taken me to the United States, New Zealand and the Himilayas.

Kim-Anh Do

I work in the Department of Social and Preventative Medicine, PA Hospital and Herston Medical School. I am married with a young son.

I studied Mathematics and Computer Science at The University of Queensland, where I won the Caltex Women of the Year Award. This broadly based degree gave me many career choices. I chose to go to Stanford University (USA) where I completed a MSc and PhD in Statistics. While in the US I worked as a consultant for the Stanford Medical School and the Bowman Gray School of Medicine, North Carolina.

My typical day has lots of variety, such as teaching within the Faculty of Medicine, researching medical problems with teams of mathematicians and medicos and advising health professionals on statistical matters.

Charles McGilchrist

Professor in Statistics at the Australian National University.

I started out in mathematics at the University of Queensland and went on to do a PhD in Statistics at the University of New South Wales. I then lectured at the university of New South Wales, until becoming a professor in 1993.

Currently I am conducting statistical research into the analysis of data from such diverse subjects as plant growth to medical research, as a professor at the ANU. Statistics is one of the most exciting subject areas of the centure because of its importance for so many other subjects. Each year its field of applications becomes broader.