Emi Tanaka

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Employment

Date	Position
2025 - current	Senior Lecturer Australian National University Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies and Statistics
2023 - 2025	Deputy Director, Senior Lecturer Australian National University Biological Data Science Institute
2020 - 2023	Senior Lecturer, Lecturer Monash University Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics
2017 - 2019	Lecturer The University of Sydney School of Mathematics and Statistics
2014 - 2017	Research Fellow University of Wollongong School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics

Academic Qualifications

Year of completion	Degree
2015	PhD in Statistics University of Sydney School of Mathematics and Statistics
2010	Bachelor of Science (Adv Maths) with Honours in Statistics University of Sydney Faculty of Science

Awards and Distinctions

Year	Award
2024	Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Programs that Enhance Learning Highly Commended Australian National University As part of the SPOKE network for the ANU Statistical Support Network
2023	Featured in the list of 60 historical and current prominent Australian statisticians Significance A magazine by the Royal Statistical Society, the Statistical Society of Australia, and the American Statistical Association
2022	SSA President’s Award for Leadership in Statistics Outstanding contribution to leadership in statistics Statistical Society of Australia
2021	SSA Distinguished Presenter’s Award Acknowledges the contributions by workshop and course presenters Statistical Society of Australia
2020	Purple Letter For teaching excellence in ETC5523 Communicationg with Data Monash University Recognised by students as one of the top performing units in the Student Evaluation of Teaching and Units
2011	J.B. Douglas Award Nomination and Prize Statistical Society of Australia, NSW Branch
2008	Tim Brown Prize II The University of Sydney
2008	Barker Scholarship IV The University of Sydney

Professional Memberships

• Statistical Society of Australia
• International Biometrics Society
• American Statistical Association
• International Statistical Institute (Elected Member)

Teaching

• Statistical Techniques (STAT1003)
  Australian National University
  https://emitanaka.org/STAT1003/
  - 2026 S1: 24 lectures, all assessments, coordinator
  
• Design and Analysis of Experiments (Workshop)
  Australian National University
  https://anu-bdsi.github.io/workshop-experimental-design/
  - 2024 S2: 3 hour workshop, delivered and developed all materials
  
• Generalised Linear Models (Workshop)
  Australian National University
  https://anu-bdsi.github.io/workshop-GLM/
  - 2024 S2: 3 hour workshop, delivered and developed all materials
  
• Introduction to R programming (Workshop)
  Australian National University
  https://anu-bdsi.github.io/workshop-intro-R/
  - 2024 S1: 3 hour workshop, delivered and developed all materials
  
• Data Wrangling with R (Workshop)
  Australian National University
  https://anu-bdsi.github.io/workshop-data-wrangling-R1/
  - 2024 S1: 3 hour workshop, delivered and developed all materials
  
• Data Visualisation with R (Workshop)
  Australian National University
  https://anu-bdsi.github.io/workshop-data-vis-R1/
  - 2024 S1: 3 hour workshop, delivered and developed all materials
  
• Reproducible Research with Quarto (Workshop)
  Australian National University
  https://anu-bdsi.github.io/workshop-intro-quarto/
  - 2024 S1: 3 hour workshop, delivered and developed all materials
  
• BDSI R Training I: Scientific Reproducibility in the Biological Sciences (Workshop)
  Australian National University
  https://anu-bdsi.github.io/training-R1/
  - 2023 S2: 6 hour workshop, delivered and developed all materials
  
• Introduction to Machine Learning (ETC3250/5250)
  Monash University
  - 2023 S1: 24 lectures, 100% assessments, coordinator
  
• Communicating with Data (ETC5523)
  Monash University
  - 2022 S2: 24 lectures, 100% assessments, coordinator
  - 2021 S2: 12 lectures, 50% assessments, coordinator
  - 2020 S2: 12 lectures, 50% assessments, coordinator
  
• Wild-Caught Data (ETC5512)
  Monash University
  - 2022 S1: 6 lectures, 25% assessments
  - 2021 S1: 6 lectures, 25% assessments
  - 2020 S1: 6 lectures, 25% assessments
  
• An interactive introduction to data analysis with R (Resource)
  Monash University
  https://learnr.numbat.space
  - 2022 S1: Lead in creating online resource with 9 modules
  
• Exploratory Data Analysis (ETC5521)
  Monash University
  - 2021 S2: 12 lectures, 50% assessments, coordinator
  - 2020 S2: 12 lectures, 50% assessments, coordinator
  
• Applied Linear Models (STAT3012)
  University of Sydney
  - 2019 S1: 39 lectures, 23 tutorials, 100% assessments, coordinator
  - 2018 S1: 12 lectures, 18 tutorials, 33% assessments
  - 2017 S1: 27 lectures, 12 tutorials, 67% assessments
  
• Introduction to Statistics (STAT5002)
  University of Sydney
  - 2018 S1: 12 lectures, 6 tutorials, 50% assessments
  - 2017 S1: 13 lectures, 7 tutorials, 50% assessments
  
• Experimental Design (STAT906)
  University of Wollongong
  - 2016 S2: 24 lectures, 100% assessments, coordinator
  

Guest lecture

• Design of Experiments and Surveys (STAT3012/6019)
  Australian National University
  2025 S1, 2024 S1
  
• Research Presentation Skills (BIOL8291)
  Australian National University
  2024 S2, 2024 S1
  
• Research Proposal (BIOL8700)
  Australian National University
  2024 S1
  

Service

• R Journal
  - Editor-in-Chief, 2026/01 – Current
  - Executive Editor, 2024/01 – 2026/01
  - Associate Editor, 2022/02 – 2023/12
• 41st International Workshop on Statistical Modelling 2027
  - Scientific Committee, Member, 2025/11 – Current
• Statistical Society of Australia
  - Mentor, 2025/03 – 2025/12
  - ACT Branch, Council Member, 2024/03 – Current
  - Victoria & Tasmania Branch, Vice President, 2023/03 – 2024/03
  - Victoria Branch, President, 2021/03 – 2023/03
  - Victoria Branch, Vice President, 2020/03 – 2021/03
  - NSW Branch, Secretary, 2018/03 – 2020/03
  - NSW Branch, Assistant Secretary, 2017/03 – 2018/03
• Biometrics in the Bush Capital
  - Scienctific and Program Committee, Member, 2024/10 – 2025/12
  - Local Organisation Committee, Chair, 2024/08 – 2025/12
• rOpenSci
  - Statistical Software Editor, 2024/01 – 2024/12
• rOpenSci Champions Program
  - Mentor, 2023/12 – 2024/06
• useR! 2021
  - Program Committee, Member, 2021/03 – 2021/03
• Australasian Applied Statistics Conference 2020/2022
  - Organising Committee, Member, 2020/01 – 2022/12
• International Biometrics Society
  - Australaisan Region, Social Media Coordinator, 2018/01 – Current
• Australasian Applied Statistics Conference 2016
  - Program and Review Committee, Member, 2016/07 – 2016/12
  - Local Organisation Committee, Chair, 2016/01 – 2016/12

External Committees

Year	desc
2024	Working Group Australian Data Science Network Report: Armstrong NJ, Bharathy GK, Buchhorn K, Mehta D, Mengersen K, Papaioannou A, Perrin D, Tanaka E (2024). People RDC Framework for Advanced Analytics for National Healthcare Research Infrastructure. Australian Data Science Network. Report to ARDC, Australian Research Data Commons. https://zenodo.org/records/13831386
2023	Data Science Review Panel Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute & Statistical Society of Australia Report: Data Science Review https://amsi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/amsi-ssa-data-science-review.pdf

Research Supervision

Staff

• Andrew Bowerman, Research Fellow (2026 – current)
  Role: Primary Supervisor
  Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies and Statistics
  Australian National University
• Maeve McGillycuddy, Research Fellow (2026 – current)
  Role: Primary Supervisor
  Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies and Statistics
  Australian National University
• Gusti Rais, Research Software Engineer (2026 – current)
  Role: Primary Supervisor
  Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies and Statistics
  Australian National University
• Yidi Deng, Postdoctoral Fellow (2025 – 2026)
  Role: Primary Supervisor
  Biological Data Science Institute
  Australian National University
• Fonti Kar, Research Fellow (2025 – 2026)
  Role: Primary Supervisor
  Biological Data Science Institute
  Australian National University
• Weihao (Patrick) Li, Postdoctoral Fellow (2025 – current)
  Role: Primary Supervisor
  Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies and Statistics
  Australian National University

Higher Degree by Research Students

• Adria Heyue Wu (2026 – current)
  Role: Associate Supervisor, Primary supervisor: Justin Borevitz
  Research School of Biology
  Australian National University
• Zhining Wang (2025 – current)
  Role: Associate Supervisor, Primary supervisor: Francis Hui
  Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies and Statistics
  Australian National University
• Xueqi (Maggie) Ma (2024 – current)
  Role: Primary Supervisor
  Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies and Statistics
  Australian National University
• Zixiong Zhang (2024 – current)
  Role: Associate Supervisor, Primary supervisor: Danielle Way
  Research School of Biology
  Australian National University
• Weihao (Patrick) Li (2021 – 2025)
  Role: Associate Supervisor, Primary supervisor: Di Cook
  Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics
  Monash University

Honour Students

• Jiazhe (Jenny) Lin (2025)
  Role: Primary Supervisor
  Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies and Statistics
  Australian National University
• Jaden Costa (2019)
  Role: Co-Supervisor with Peter Kim
  School of Mathematics and Statistics
  University of Sydney
• Denzel Florez (2018)
  Role: Primary Supervisor
  School of Mathematics and Statistics
  University of Sydney
• Lauren Borg (2016)
  Role: Associate Supervisor with Brian Cullis
  School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics
  University of Wollongong
• Nicole Cocks (2016)
  Role: Associate Supervisor with Brian Cullis
  School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics
  University of Wollongong

Invited Talks and Seminars

Keynote

year	desc
2026	Keynote speaker Australian Data Science Network Conference, Canberra, Australia
2026	Annual lecture Statistical Society of Australia NSW Branch, Sydney, Australia
2026	Keynote speaker Essential skills for statistics leadership in consultancy and research, Brisbane, Australia
2023	Keynote speaker Visual Data Science at IEEE VIS 2023, Melbourne, Australia
2022	Ihaka lecture Department of Statistics, University of Auckland, Online

Invited talks and seminars (in the last 5 years)

year	desc
2025	Invited talk Forum “Math for Industry”, Seoul, Korea
2024	Invited talk International Biometrics Society, Atlanta, USA
2023	Invited talk Australian Statistical Conference, Wollongong, Australia
2023	Seminar Statistical Society of Australia ECSSN Webinar, Online
2023	Invited talk ISI World Statistics Congress, Ottawa, Canada
2022	Invited talk Australian Data Science Network Conference, Brisbane, Australia
2022	Invited talk Monash Data Futures Insitute, Melbourne, Australia
2022	Invited talk Statistical Society of Australia Canberra Branch, Canberra, Australia
2022	Seminar Statistics Seminar, University of Glasgow, Online
2022	Invited talk Toronto Data Workshop, Online

Funding

year	desc
2025	Bioinformatics and Biological Resources Fund UK Research and Innovation HiPerBreedSim: High-performance breeding simulations with complex genomes & phenotypes £1,306,690.59 Project Partner
2024	Analytics for the Australian Grains Industry Grains Research and Development Corporation Project Partnership $1,533,213 Lead Investigator
2022	ARC Linkage Project Australian Research Council Three-dimensional Bayesian Modelling of Geological and Geophysical data $554,188 Chief Investigator
2020	ARC Centre of Excellence Australian Research Council ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS) Associate Investigator
2019	ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre Australian Research Council Data Analytics for Resources and Environments (DARE) $3,973,202 Chief Investigator
2019	R Consortium Grant R Consortium Symbolic Formulae for Linear Mixed Models US$6,000 Lead Investigator
2018	Sydney Institute of Agriculture Research Project Grant Sydney Institute of Agriculture Land surface models of carbon and water do not work in agricultural landscapes where it actually matters they work $90,000 Chief Investigator
2018	Faculty of Science Research Equipment and Infrastructure Scheme The University of Sydney Sydney bioinformatics and biometrics big data research server $36,040 Chief Investigator

Publications

Citations extracted from Google Scholar using the scholar R package.

1. E Chaplin, E Tanaka, A Merchant, B Sznajder, R Trethowan, W Salter (2026). QTLs for heat-induced stomatal anatomy underpin gas exchange variation in field-grown wheat. Frontiers in Plant Science. Citations: 2
   
2. E Tanaka (2026). Examining the Interface Design of Tidyverse. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics. Citations: 2
   
3. W Li, D Cook, E Tanaka, S VanderPlas, K Ackermann (2026). Automated residual plot assessment with the R package autovi and the Shiny application autovi. web. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics. Citations: 1
   
4. E Chaplin, E Tanaka, A Merchant, B Sznajder, R Trethowan, W Salter (2026). Field-based dissection of stomatal anatomy and conductance reveals stable QTL under drought and heat in wheat. bioRxiv.
   
5. E Tanaka, D Amaliah (2025). Current state and prospects of R-packages for the design of experiments. R Journal. Citations: 1
   
6. J Li, F Cheng, JJ Liu, E Tanaka (2025). Analysis of international life expectancies with manifold learning and neural networks. Genus.
   
7. J Ojo, H Amoanimaa-Dede, J Mackenzie, ED Chaplin, E Jordan, F Stock, E Dehnavi, AP Scafaro, D Cowan-Turner, AF Bowerman, WT Salter, R Furbank, D Way, E Tanaka, FR Danilla, BJ Pogson, J Melonek, H Millar, NL Taylor, MD Chai, J Kelly, M Atkinson, F Fogarty, A Bandehagh, J Taylor, O Kravchuk, D Ganesalingam, D Tabah, AR Bentley, B Sznadjer, RM Trethowan, OK Atkin, R Thistlethwaite, O Coast, A Karlsson (2025). Contrasting Acclimation of Leaf Energy Metabolic Traits to Warming in Field-Grown Wheat.. CANVAS 2025.
   
8. W Li, D Cook, E Tanaka, S VanderPlas (2024). A plot is worth a thousand tests: Assessing residual diagnostics with the lineup protocol. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. Citations: 45
   
9. H Mason, D Cook, S Goodwin, E Tanaka, S VanderPlas (2024). The noisy work of uncertainty visualisation research: A review. arXiv preprint. Citations: 4
   
10. W Li, D Cook, E Tanaka, S VanderPlas, K Ackermann (2024). Automated Assessment of Residual Plots with Computer Vision Models. arXiv preprint. Citations: 2
    
11. E Tanaka (2024). Telling Stories with Data: With Application in R.. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics.
    
12. E Tanaka (2023). Towards a unified language in experimental designs propagated by a software framework. arXiv preprint. Citations: 1
    
13. E Tanaka (2023). edibble: An R package to encapsulate elements of experimental designs for better planning, management and workflow. arXiv preprint.
    
14. D Amaliah, D Cook, E Tanaka, K Hyde, N Tierney (2022). A Journey from Wild to Textbook Data to Reproducibly Refresh the Wages Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Database. Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education. Citations: 2
    
15. E Tanaka, JWY Leung, D Cook (2022). Commentary on ``Visualization in Operations Management Research’’: Incorporating Statistical Thinking into Visualization Practices for Decision Making in Operational Management. INFORMS Journal on Data Science. Citations: 2
    
16. D Cook, N Reid, E Tanaka (2021). The Foundation is Available for Thinking about Data Visualization Inferentially. Harvard Data Science Review. Citations: 16
    
17. G Morota, H Cheng, D Cook, E Tanaka (2021). Prospects for interactive and dynamic graphics in the era of data-rich animal science. Journal of Animal Science. Citations: 15
    
18. E Tanaka (2020). Simple outlier detection for a multi-environmental field trial. Biometrics. Citations: 15
    
19. E Tanaka, FKC Hui (2019). Symbolic Formulae for Linear Mixed Models. Statistics and Data Science. Citations: 9
    
20. FKC Hui, E Tanaka, DI Warton (2018). Order selection and sparsity in latent variable models via the ordered factor LASSO. Biometrics. Citations: 35
    
21. A Norman, J Taylor, E Tanaka, P Telfer, J Edwards, JP Martinant, H Kuchel (2017). Increased genomic prediction accuracy in wheat breeding using a large Australian panel. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. Citations: 56
    
22. E Tanaka, JPF Ral, S Li, R Gaire, CR Cavanagh, BR Cullis, A Whan (2017). Increased accuracy of starch granule type quantification using mixture distributions. Plant Methods. Citations: 11
    
23. E Tanaka, TL Bailey, U Keich (2014). Improving MEME via a two-tiered significance analysis. Bioinformatics. Citations: 28
    
24. E Tanaka, T Bailey, CE Grant, WS Noble, U Keich (2011). Improved similarity scores for comparing motifs. Bioinformatics. Citations: 78
    
25. I Liachko, E Tanaka, K Cox, SCC Chung, L Yang, A Seher, L Hallas, E Cha, G Kang, H Pace, J Barrow, M Inada, BK Tye, U Keich (2011). Novel features of ARS selection in budding yeast Lachancea kluyveri. BMC Genomics. Citations: 29
    

Software

For R packages published on CRAN, the total downloads over one year period is shown extracted from the cranlogs R package. Note that the download log is a public record from one of the many mirrors available.

My software contributions can be found at https://github.com/emitanaka.

• lme4 – Contributor
  Mixed-effects models in R
  Source: https://github.com/lme4/lme4
  8,030,000+ downloads in one year GitHub stars: 699
  
• xaringan – Contributor
  An R package for creating slideshows with remark.js through R Markdown.
  Source: https://github.com/yihui/xaringan
  68,300+ downloads in one year GitHub stars: 1,523
  
• shinycustomloader – Creator, Maintainer
  Add a custom loader for R shiny.
  Source: https://github.com/emitanaka/shinycustomloader
  17,300+ downloads in one year GitHub stars: 121
  
• edibble – Creator, Maintainer
  An R-package that implements the grammar of experimental design.
  Source: https://github.com/emitanaka/edibble
  8,370+ downloads in one year GitHub stars: 224
  
• heritable – Creator, Maintainer
  An R package for calculating the heritability from mixed models
  Source: https://github.com/anu-aagi/heritable
  4,350+ downloads in one year GitHub stars: 7
  
• flipbookr – Author
  An R-package that parses code, creates partial code builds, delivers code movie
  Source: https://github.com/EvaMaeRey/flipbookr
  4,310+ downloads in one year GitHub stars: 210
  
• ggmatplot – Author
  Plot Columns of Two Matrices Against Each Other Using ‘ggplot2’
  Source: https://github.com/xuan-liang/ggmatplot
  3,890+ downloads in one year GitHub stars: 5
  
• moodlequiz – Author
  An R package for creating moodle quizzes using literate programming
  Source: https://github.com/numbats/moodlequiz
  3,260+ downloads in one year GitHub stars: 4
  
• ggincerta – Author
  An R package for spatial uncertainty visualization
  Source: https://github.com/maggiexma/ggincerta
  3,120+ downloads in one year GitHub stars: 22
  
• emend – Creator
  Text cleaning with AI assisstant in R
  Source: https://github.com/anuopensci/emend
  497+ downloads in one year GitHub stars: 17
  
• datascan – Creator, Maintainer
  An R package for scanning data for structural summaries
  395+ downloads in one year
• gghdr – Author
  Plots of highest density regions (HDR) for ggplot2.
  Source: https://github.com/ropenscilabs/gghdr
  258+ downloads in one year GitHub stars: 54
  
• monash – Creator, Maintainer
  A utility R-package with consolidated tools and templates for staffs at Monash University.
  Source: https://github.com/numbats/monash
  GitHub stars: 25
  
• Tomtom – Contributor
  A motif comparison tool part of the MEME Suite.
  
• anubrand – Creator, Maintainer
  A utility R-package for ANU staff and students
  Source: https://github.com/anuopensci/anubrand
  GitHub stars: 0
  
• canvasquiz – Creator, Maintainer
  An R package to streamline the creation of Canvas quizzes via its API
  Source: https://github.com/emitanaka/canvasquiz
  GitHub stars: 0
  
• hexmap – Author
  An R package for converting a map of regions into a hexagon tile map
  Source: https://github.com/mitchelloharawild/hexmap
  GitHub stars: 4
  

Skills

• Expert: R, HTML/CSS, LaTeX
• Intermediate: Git/GitHub, Python, Bash, JS
• Languages: English (fluent) and Japanese (conversational)

Contact

• emi.tanaka@anu.edu.au
• github.com/emitanaka
• @emitanaka.org
• For more information, please contact me via email.