Nic completed his undergraduate in Statistics and Computational Finance, and his honours in Applied Mathematics, at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. He also studied statistics while on exchange to National University of Singapore. His research project, completed in 2019, was focussed on mathematical modelling of contagions.
Following this, Nic worked as a research assistant with University of Auckland and Te Pūnaha Matatini on real-time COVID-19 modelling. This involved both statistical and mathematical modelling, as well as communicating results with policymakers and journalists. As a StatML student, Nic hopes to utilise modern statistical techniques to better understand the spread of infectious diseases.
