The New Zealand Institute for Public Health and Forensic Science (PHF Science) was formerly named The Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR).

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Alan Tan

Alan is the Data Science Lead with the Data Science team, situated within the Office of Chief Scientist, at PHF Science

Qualifications

Master's in Engineering (Comp Science) from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and PhD in Computer Science from University of Waikato.

About

Alan is the Data Science Lead with the Data Science team, situated within the Office of Chief Scientist, at PHF Science. He also holds the Data Science research priority lead portfolio and is a member of PHF Science's Science leadership forum. Alan's role focuses on developing and implementing PHF Science's AI research strategy and identifying opportunities for developing new capabilities and transforming PHF Science's research and services using advance technologies. He also leads the Data Science team and the research work. Alan specialises in applying AI to address practical real-world challenges and has experience working across different domains such as hazards, fisheries, marine ecology, aquaculture, forestry, biosecurity and public health security. His expertise is in extracting high-value knowledge from high-dimensionality data using machine learning. Prior to joining PHF Science, he was leading the AI and Deep learning team at the Earth Sciences New Zealand PRO and was the Research Leader for the Data and Geospatial Intelligence group at Scion.