Rate My Professor Angus Ng

Professor Shu Kay Angus Ng, commonly known as Professor Angus Ng, serves as Professor of Biostatistics in the School of Medicine and Dentistry at Griffith University, a role he has held since January 2018. He earned his PhD in statistics from the University of Queensland in 1999. In addition to his professorial appointment, Ng is a researcher with the Centre for Applied Health Economics (CAHE) at Griffith University since 2018, a member of the Griffith Biostatistics Unit, and previously contributed to EPIC Health Systems from 2018 to 2021 and Griffith Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Epidemiology since 2022. As a senior biostatistician, he holds the position of Associate Editor for the Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation and was selected as a Member of the ARC College of Experts for a three-year term commencing in 2022. Professor Ng has supervised five PhD students to completion since 2017 and is currently supervising four PhD students.

Professor Ng's research specializations include biostatistics, statistical modelling and computation, image analysis, machine learning, and survival analysis. He has pioneered theoretical advancements in random-effects models for mixture model-based cluster analysis, enabling the analysis of complex heterogeneous and correlated data. His applied research contributes to multidisciplinary fields such as bioinformatics, oncology, comorbidity research, medical imaging, and health economics, with a focus on modelling and evaluating randomised trials, cohort studies, and longitudinal studies. With more than 160 publications accumulating over 9,000 citations and an H-index of 37 on Google Scholar, key works include the highly cited 'Top 10 algorithms in data mining' (2008, over 8,400 citations), 'Timing of surgery following SARS-CoV-2 infection: an international prospective cohort study' (2021, 670 citations), 'Effect of a low-intensity PSA-based screening intervention on prostate cancer mortality: the CAP randomized clinical trial' (2018, 605 citations), 'Mortality of emergency abdominal surgery in high-, middle- and low-income countries' (2016, 392 citations), and 'Prolotherapy injections and eccentric loading exercises for painful Achilles tendinosis: a randomised trial' (2011, 335 citations). He also authored the monograph 'Mixture Modelling for Medical and Health Sciences'. Ng has received funding through the Griffith Discovery Project in 2024 for 'Advancing statistical models for clustering data with structured dependence', underscoring his impact on statistical methodology development and health research.