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Rob Deardon is a Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Calgary, working jointly in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (Department of Production Animal Health) and the Department of Mathematics & Statistics since September 2014. He obtained his PhD in Applied Statistics from the University of Reading in the UK in 2001. Before joining the University of Calgary, he served as an Assistant, Associate, and then Full Professor in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at the University of Guelph from 2006 to 2014. Dr. Deardon's research encompasses themes of ecosystem health, epidemiology, immunology, and public health, with a particular focus on infectious disease modeling. He has primarily worked on infectious disease transmission modelling and disease surveillance methods, handling high-profile problems such as the UK 2001 foot-and-mouth disease and various diseases affecting both humans and animals. Additionally, he is interested in Bayesian and computational statistics, including Monte Carlo methods and classification-related techniques, and currently supervises a research group consisting of 10 graduate students.
Department of Computer Science Master's program. GRE scores are expected for international students.