about Audrey Yeo
Pictured : useR2024! conf, summer 2024, Salzburg, Austria
The Gifting Spree
- Berlin
A swing from very open
To very closed
From two sides of the Röstigraben
To the inner parts of Home
A Gifting Spree
Lies the slice of a missing
Generositypronouns
- She/Her
some labels
Biostatistician
Software Engineer / Computational Statistician
Poet, Writer and Fine Artist*
(*Creative work displayed applies under Swiss Federal Act on Copyright and Related Rights)
some places of belonging :
- Naarm (Indigenous name of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)
- Wurundjeri Land (Indigenous name of Victoria, Australia)
some qualifications :
University of Zürich, Master of Science in Biostatistics
University of Sydney, Master of Nursing
(but I am a proud Victorian)
most memorable Swiss uni though :
University of Geneva, Bachelor of Economics and Statistics
(the summer by the lake and friends to fill your heart)
some interests :
- Bayesian statistics
- Health economic modeling
- Statistical Software Engineering with R language
- Probability theory
- Adaptive design
- Causal Inference
some experiences :
- [Finance] Digital Transformation in Finance Sector engaging multi-continent stakeholders from end-user to sponsors
- [Science] Reproducibility research for a certain statistical method in Medicine
- [Pharma] Clinical trials of early and late drug development
- [Pharma] Statistical Software engineering and package development (see “2024 conferences and presentations”)
- [Pharma] Teaching Julia Programming (Q1-2, 2024) with a team of Julia instructors to Roche, Basel’s Scientists and Data Scientists
disease area specialties :
- Haematology, Oncology, Neuroscience Rare Diseases
community events :
- I co-organise, moderate, chair and present in in house stats community events
programming languages and capabilities :
- Julia, R, BASH/UNIX scripting, Git, SQL, Python
R packages and Shiny apps :
- Currently working on open sourcing internal R package for early clinical trial development
examples of past work
- My Github has examples of past and present academic and non-industry work
some publications and presentations
- 2020: Kimmich, Nina; Yeo Te-ying, Audrey; Zimmermann, Roland; Furrer, Eva (2020). How do sustained birth tears after vaginal birth affect birth tear patterns in a subsequent birth? Journal of Perinatal Medicine, 48(4):335-344. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jpm-2020-0007
- 2022 : A pocket guide to Bayesian decision gating - internal
- 2024 : PSI conference and useR!2024 conference, see below
some languages
- Teochew
- French
- German
- Mandarin
currently coffee table readings :
- Garden of Evening Mists, Tan Twan Eng (EN)
- Annie Ernaux’s Mémoire de fille (FR)
- Rupi Kaur’s Homebody (EN)
poetry performances :
- currently performing in and around Munich, Berlin, Basel and Innsbruck
2025 conferences and presentations :
- DAGStat, Berlin, Germany, Good Software Engineering Practices in R, March 2025
- DAGStat, Berlin, Germany, Practical Bayesian Statistics : A gentle refresher on probability theory, Bayesian Framework and Intuition for effective application in Biostatistics., March 2025
- ISCB: 46th Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics, Basel, Switzerland
- RoeS Conference 2025, Graz, Austria
2024 conferences and presentations :
- PSI 2024, Amsterdam, Netherlands, A Bayesian approach to decision making in early development clinical trials : An R solution., June 2024, slides and code for slides here
- useR!2024 conference, Salzburg, Austria, A Bayesian approach to decision making in early development clinical trials : An R solution., July 2024 [link coming soon]
- useR!2024 conference, Salzburg, Austria, Statistical Software Engineering : A Statistican’s Technical journey in R., July 2024 [link coming soon]
- useR!2024 conference Keynote Address 10 July 2024 : “a(R)t is the Engine for Change” [link coming soon]
- PHUSE 2024, Basel, Switzerland : Gearing our industry Statisticians up for Software success : A phase1b journey. September 2024 abstract here [link coming soon]