Edgar Santos Fernandez

Dr. Edgar Santos Fernandez is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Mathematical Sciences within the Faculty of Science at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). His work focuses on advanced statistical methodologies with applications across various scientific domains.

Dr. Santos Fernandez's primary research interests include:

• Statistics and applied statistical methods
• Bayesian modeling and computation
• Data science and analysis of complex datasets
• Anomaly detection in spatio-temporal data
• Environmental and ecological data analysis

His research demonstrates a strong focus on developing and applying innovative statistical techniques to address real-world challenges, particularly in environmental monitoring, ecology, and health sciences. Dr. Santos Fernandez has made significant contributions to the development of Bayesian methods for spatio-temporal data analysis, with applications to stream networks, sensor data, and citizen science projects.

Dr. Santos Fernandez has been actively involved in several interdisciplinary research collaborations, working with experts in ecology, environmental science, and health. His work on the Virtual Reef Diver project demonstrates his commitment to applying statistical methods to important environmental conservation efforts.

He has developed statistical software tools including clusterBMA for Bayesian model averaging in clustering and SSNbayes for Bayesian spatio-temporal modeling on stream networks, contributing to the statistical computing community through R package development.