Caroline Gao

Dr Caroline Gao is a biostatistician, machine learner and epidemiologist. She is currently working as the senior biostatistician at Centre for Youth Mental Health (CYMH), University of Melbourne as well as School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University.

Dr Gao obtained her PhD from the University of Hong Kong (infectious disease epidemiology and modelling) and Master of Biostatistics from the University of Melbourne. She is a skilled mathematical modeller and biostatistician with over 10 years’ experience of working for large projects funded by government and nationally competitive grants. She has statistical expertise in the area of analysis of secondary, administrative and linked data, as well as the use of advanced statistical and machine learning methods in epidemiology and psychology. Her main research area is in environmental health and psychology, including establishing innovative statistical methods to evaluate the impact of air pollution and climate change, developing psychological assessment tools, apply machine learning methods in large administrative datasets for outcome evaluation and prediction.