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Marcel Scharth is a Lecturer in Business Analytics at the University of Sydney Business School and affiliated with the Centre for Translational Data Science. He holds a Ph.D. from VU University Amsterdam (2012) and has conducted postdoctoral research at the University of New South Wales. His expertise spans Bayesian methods, computational statistics, machine learning, and financial econometrics.
Research focuses include high-dimensional stochastic volatility models, Monte Carlo methods, and Bayesian machine learning applied to time series and longitudinal data. He teaches courses like QBUS2810 (Statistical Modelling), QBUS2820 (Predictive Analytics), and QBUS5001 (Quantitative Methods for Business), emphasizing statistical reasoning and computational skills.
His work has been published in top journals such as the Journal of Econometrics and the Review of Economics and Statistics. He actively engages in AI discourse, contributing to media articles on prompt engineering for generative AI and the limitations of models like ChatGPT.
Professional activities include Effective Altruism collaborations and open-source contributions via GitHub repositories like forecasting and Machine Learning for Business.
