Prof Peter TAYLOR

Professor / Redmond Barry Professor / ACEMS Director

School of Mathematics and Statistics

Research Interests

N. Read, TJ Duff, P. Taylor. A lightning-caused wildfire ignition forecasting model for operational use. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 253-254, 233-246, 2018. doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2018.01.037.
A. Kumar, A. Costa, M. Fackrell, P. Taylor. A sequential stochastic mixed integer programming model for tactical master surgery scheduling. European Journal of Operational Research, 734-746, 2018. doi: 10.1016/j.ejor.2018.04.007.
JK Budd, P. Taylor. Bounds for the solution to the single-period inventory model with compound renewal process input: An application to setting credit card limits. European Journal of Operational Research, 1012-1018, 2018. doi: 10.1016/j.ejor.2018.11.022.
M. Fackrell, P. Taylor. Allocation in a vertical rotary car park. 337-370, Markov Decision Processes in Practice, Springer, 2017. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-47766-4_12.
M Mandjes, P. Taylor, K De Turck. The Markov-modulated Erlang loss system. Performance Evaluation, 116, 53-69, 2017. doi: 10.1016/j.peva.2017.08.005.

Name	Thesis title
Timothy HYNDMAN
Kate SAUNDERS	"Spatial and Temporal Statistical Modelling of Extreme Rainfall in Australia."
Shrupa SHAH	"Understanding the contribution of space on the spread of Influenza using an Individual-based model approach"

Name	Thesis title
Peter BRAUNSTEINS	"Extinction in branching processes with countably many types"
Jonathan BUDD	"Modelling and Simulation of Credit Card Behaviour"
Joanne CHEW	"Skip-Stop Schedules for Public Transportation"
Guo JUN
Paul KEELER	"Stochastic routing models in sensor networks"
Alana MOORE	"Managing bilological populations in the interface of uncertainty"
Allan MOTYER	"Quasi-birth-and-death processes with an infinite phase space"
Ellen MUIR	"Hypergeometric Distributions and Efficient Dynamic Market Clearing"
Ana NOVAK	"Queuing problems in active probing: an application to a single hop network"
Maya RAMAKRISHNAN	"Distributed approaches to capacity reallocation in networks"
Nicholas READ	"Bush Escalation Probabilities in the Victorian Landscape"
Yacov SALOMON	"Re-examining fundamental concepts and assumptions in conservation and management using mathematical theories of probability"
Jason WHYTE	"Global a priori identifiability of biomolecular interaction models in flow-cell optical biosensor experiments"
James ZHAO	"Hidden Markov models with multiple observation processes"

Name	Project title
Ria SZEREDI

Name	Project title
Giles ADAMS
Peter BRAUNSTEINS
Jonathan BUDD
Daphne DO	"Formulating and Modelling Robust Decision-Making Problems Under Severe Uncertainty"
Yani GENG
John GILBERTSON
Clare KITCHING
Ashwani KUMAR
Jennifer KUSUMA	"Decomposition Approach to Serial Inventory Systems under Uncertainties"
Cong LI
Robert MARSHALL
Ellen MUIR
Vincent PANG
Auron SEIKEN	"The Branch-and-Cut Methodology for Mixed Integer Programming"
Nikki SONENBERG	"Building Stochastic Models of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks"
Jinghan XIA
James ZHAO	"Hidden Markov Models"

Year(s)	Source	Type	Title
2014 - 2016	ARC	Centre Of Excellence	ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS)
2013 - 2018	ARC	ARC Laureate Fellowship	New stochastic models for Science, Economics, Social Science and Engineering (Laureate 080069)
2011 - 2013	ARC	Discovery	New methods for improving active adaptive management in biological systems
2011 - 2013	ARC	Discovery	Advanced matrix-analytic methods with applications
2003 - 2010	ARC	Centre Of Excellence	ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems