Dr Sharon Lee

Senior Lecturer

School of Mathematics and Physics
Faculty of Science

Overview

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland

Publications

  • Lee, Sharon X. and McLachlan, Geoffrey J. (2024). An overview of skew distributions in model-based clustering. Science Talks, 9 100298, 100298. doi: 10.1016/j.sctalk.2024.100298

  • Nguyen, Hien, Lee, Sharon and Forbes, Florence (2022). A Festschrift for Geoff McLachlan. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 64 (2), 111-116. doi: 10.1111/anzs.12372

  • Lee, Sharon X. and McLachlan, Geoffrey J. (2022). An overview of skew distributions in model-based clustering. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 188 104853, 1-14. doi: 10.1016/j.jmva.2021.104853

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Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

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Publications

Book Chapter

  • Lee, Sharon X., McLachlan, Geoffrey J. and Pyne, Saumyadipta (2021). Automated gating and dimension reduction of high-dimensional cytometry data. Mathematical, computational and experimental T cell immunology. (pp. 281-294) edited by Carmen Molina-París and Grant Lythe . Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-57204-4_16

  • Lee, Sharon X. and McLachlan, Geoffrey J. (2018). Risk measures based on multivariate skew normal and skew t-mixture models. Asymmetric dependence in finance: diversification, correlation and portfolio management in market downturns. (pp. 152-168) edited by Jamie Alcock and Stephen Satchell. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781119288992.ch7

  • Lee, Sharon X., Ng, Shu-Kay and McLachlan, Geoffrey J. (2017). Finite mixture models in biostatistics. Disease Modelling and Public Health, Part A. (pp. 75-102) edited by Arni S.R. Srinivasa Rao, Saumyadipta Pyne and C.R. Rao. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/bs.host.2017.08.005

  • Lee, Sharon X., McLachlan, Geoffrey J. and Pyne, Saumyadipta (2016). Application of mixture models to large datasets. Big data analytics: methods and applications. (pp. 57-74) edited by Saumyadipta Pyne, B. L. S. Prakasa Rao and S. B. Rao. New Delhi, India: Springer India. doi: 10.1007/978-81-322-3628-3_4

Journal Article

Conference Publication

  • Lee, Sharon X. and McLachlan, Geoffrey J. (2021). On Mean And/or Variance Mixtures of Normal Distributions. 12th Scientific Meeting of the Classification and Data Analysis Group of the Italian Statistical Society (CLADAG 2019), Cassino, Italy, 11–13 September 2019. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-69944-4_13

  • Lee, Sharon X. and McLachlan, Geoffrey J. (2020). Modelling asset return using multivariate asymmetric mixture models with applications to estimation of Value-at-Risk. 20th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation - Adapting to Change: The Multiple Roles of Modelling, MODSIM 2013 , Adelaide, SA, Australia, 1 - 6 December 2013. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc. (MSSANZ).

  • Lee, Sharon X., Leemaqz, Kaleb L. and McLachlan, Geoffrey J. (2019). PPEM: privacy-preserving EM learning for mixture models. 8th International Conference on Applications and Techniques in Information Security, ATIS 2017, Auckland, New Zealand, 6-7 July 2017. Oxford, United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/cpe.5208

  • Lee, Sharon X. (2019). CytoFA: automated gating of mass cytometry data via robust skew factor analzyers. 23rd Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2019), Macau, China, 14-17 April 2019. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-16148-4_40

  • McLachlan, Geoffrey J. and Lee, Sharon X. (2019). Flexible modelling via multivariate skew distributions. Research School on Statistics and Data Science (RSSDS 2019), Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 24–26 July 2019. Singapore, Singapore: Springer Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-15-1960-4_4

  • Leemaqz, Kaleb L., Lee, Sharon X. and McLachlan, Geoffrey J. (2017). Corruption-resistant privacy preserving distributed EM algorithm for model-based clustering. 2017 IEEE Trustcom/BigDataSE/ICESS, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 1 - 4 August 2017. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/Trustcom/BigDataSE/ICESS.2017.356

  • Lee, Sharon X. (2017). Mining high-dimensional CyTOF data: Concurrent gating, outlier removal, and dimension reduction. 28th Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2017, Brisbane, QLD, 25–28 September 2017. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-68155-9_14

  • Leemaqz, Kaleb L., Lee, Sharon X. and McLachlan, Geoffrey J. (2017). Privacy distributed three-party learning of Gaussian mixture models. International Conference on Applications and Technologies in Information Security (ATIS), Auckland, New Zealand, 6-7 July 2017. Singapore: Springer Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-5421-1_7

  • Lee, Sharon X., Leemaqz, Kaleb L. and McLachlan, Geoffrey J. (2016). A simple parallel EM algorithm for statistical learning via mixture models. International Conference on Digital Image Computing, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, 30 November - 2 December,2016. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers). doi: 10.1109/DICTA.2016.7796997

  • Lee, Sharon X. and McLachlan, Geoffrey J. (2016). On mixture modelling with multivariate skew distributions. COMPSTAT: International Conference on Computational Statistics, Oviedo, Spain, 23-26 August 2016. The Hague, The Netherlands: The International Statistical Institute/International Association for Statistical Computing.

  • Lee, Sharon X. and McLachlan, Geoffrey J. (2016). Unsupervised component-wise EM learning for finite mixtures of skew t-distributions. 12th International Conference, ADMA 2016, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, 12-15 December 2016. New York, NY, United States: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-49586-6_49

  • Lee, Sharon X. and McLachlan, Geoffrey J. (2013). Modelling asset return using multivariate asymmetric mixture models with applications to estimation of Value-at-Risk. International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Adelaide, SA, Australia, 1/12/2013/6/12/2013. Melbourne, Australia: Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand.

  • Lee, Sharon (2012). Polynomial approximations for bit error probability for 4-DPSK transmission. 6th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS), Gold Coast, Australia, 12-14 December 2012. Piscatawa, NJ United States: I E E E. doi: 10.1109/ICSPCS.2012.6507946

  • Lee, Sharon (2010). Accurate approximations of BER for DQPSK transmission via Least Squares estimation of the Marcum Q-function. ICSPCS'2010: 4th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, 13-15 December, 2010. Piscataway, NJ, USA: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ICSPCS.2010.5709710

Grants (Administered at UQ)

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor