Richard
Bean
ROAM
Consulting
PO
Box 731
Level
4
126
Barry Parade
Fortitude
Valley Qld 4006
Australia
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+61-7-3112-6001
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+61-431-893-907
Education
Ph.D. Mathematics 1998 - 2001. University of Queensland, Department of Mathematics.
B.Sc. (Honours I) Computer Science and Mathematics. 1994 - 1997. University of Queensland.
University
Medal - Grade Point Average 6.55 out of 7.
Employment
Industry
Mathematical
Modeller, ROAM Consulting, April 2007 - current.
Duties
include:
·
Mathematical
modelling of the Australian NEM (National Electricity Market) and New Zealand
Electricity Market (NZEM).
·
Developing
bidding models of the NEM and models of the Renewable Energy Target (RET) and
Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) with the WASP (Wien Automatic System
Planning) program implemented using dynamic programming as an Integrated
Resource Planning (IRP) package.
·
Minimum
Reserve Level recalculation project, developing statistical models for expected
unserved energy in the NEM.
·
Programming
in Microsoft VBA, C++, writing spreadsheets in Excel and maintaining databases
in Access, including SQL work.
Research
Research
Officer, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland,
December 2003 - March 2007.
Postdoctoral
Associate, Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, Tehran, Iran, April 2002 -
October 2003.
Research
Assistant and Officer (Statistics), Department of Mathematics, University of Queensland
April 2001 - March 2002.
Duties
included:
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Interpreting
and co-authoring statistical and mathematical papers.
·
Developing
and optimizing algorithms related to graph theory, combinatorics,
operations research, and statistics; analyzing
microarray data.
·
Programming
in C, Fortran, Matlab, R, Python, and UNIX shell
·
Proof-reading
and technical issues for a Wiley microarray book.
Teaching
Tutor,
University of Queensland, Mathematics and Computer
Science Departments, February 1996 - June 2000.
Subjects
tutored include:
Modelling
and Simulation, Systems Programming, Graph Theory, Geometries and Designs,
Calculus and Vectors I, Predicate Calculus and Recursive Functions
Private
Tutor, University Mathematics, 1999 - 2001.
Duties
included:
·
Explaining
a wide range of mathematical concepts in group environments and individually;
interacting with university students of all ages and backgrounds.
Lecturer, Sharif University of
Technology,
Tehran, Department of Mathematics, Second Semester 2002.
English
Teacher, Kish Air Institute, Tehran, August - December
2002.
Private
English Teacher, Tehran, 2003.
Programming
Software
Engineer, CiTR Pty Ltd, December 1996 - February
1997.
Programmer,
University of Queensland, Mathematics Department, March - May 2000. Designed
web pages for mathematics subject; performed programming for
thesis supervisor.
Duties
included:
·
Programming
in C and C++ in Windows and UNIX environments; working as part of a team to
interpret software specifications.
·
R.
Bean and D. Donovan (2000). ``Closing a gap in the spectrum of critical sets''.
Australasian Journal of Combinatorics 22, 191--200.
·
P.
Adams, R. Bean, and A. Khodkar (2001). ``Disjoint
critical sets in Latin squares''. In Proceedings of the Thirty-second Southeastern International
Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing (Baton Rouge, LA,
2001). Congressus Numerantium 153, 33--48.
·
R.
Bean, D. Donovan, A. Khodkar, and A. Street (2002).
``Steiner trades that give rise to completably
decomposable Latin interchanges''. In 11th Australasian Workshop on
Combinatorial Algorithms (Hunter Valley, 2000, International Journal of
Computer Mathematics 79:12, 1273--1284.
·
G.
J. McLachlan, D. Peel, and R. Bean (2002). ``A mixture model-based approach to
the clustering of microarray data''. Bioinformatics 18:3, 413--422.
·
R.
Bean and E. S. Mahmoodian (2003). ``A new bound on
the size of the largest critical set in a Latin square''. Discrete Mathematics
267, 13--21.
·
P.
Adams, R. Bean, and A. Khodkar (2003). ``A census of
critical sets in Latin squares of order at most six''. Ars
Combinatoria 68, 203--223.
·
G.
J. McLachlan, D. Peel and R. Bean (2003). ``Modelling high-dimensional data by
mixtures of factor analyzers''. Computational
Statistics and Data Analysis 41, 379--388.
·
G.
J. McLachlan and R. Bean (2004) ``Contribution to the discussion of paper by J.
Friedman and J. Meulman''. Journal of the Royal
Statistical Society B 66, 846.
·
G.
J. McLachlan, S. K. Ng, and R.W. Bean (2004). ``Robust mixture modeling.'' Proceedings of the American Statistical
Association, and Engineering Sciences Section [CD-ROM], Toronto, August 2004.
Alexandria, Virginia: American Statistical Association.
·
R.
Bean (2005). ``The size of the smallest uniquely completable
set in order 8 Latin squares''. Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and
Combinatorial Computing 52, 159--168.
·
R.
Bean (2005). ``Critical sets in the elementary abelian
2- and 3- groups''. Utilitas Mathematica
68, 53--61.
·
R.
Bean and G. J. McLachlan (2005). ``Cluster analysis of high-dimensional data: a
case study''. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3578, 302--310.
·
G.
McLachlan, L. Ben-Tovim Jones, R. Bean, and J. Zhu
(2005). ``Application of mixture models to detect differentially expressed
genes''. Lecture
Notes in Computer Science
3578, 422--431.
·
G.
J. McLachlan, R. W. Bean, L. Ben-Tovim Jones, and J.
Zhu (2005). ``Using mixture models to detect differentially expressed genes''.
Australian
Journal of Experimental
Agriculture 45, 859--866.
·
L.
Ben-Tovim Jones, R. W. Bean, G. J. McLachlan, and J.
X. Zhu (2005). ``Mixture models for detecting differentially expressed genes in
microarrays''.
International Journal of
Neural Systems 16, 353--362.
·
R.
Bean, H. Bidkhori, M. Khosravi,
E. S. Mahmoodian (2005). ``k-homogeneous latin trades''. In ALCOMA'05:
Proceedings of the Conference on Algebraic Combinatorics
and Applications, Designs and Codes (April 3-10, 2005, Thurnau),
A. Kerber, A. Kohnert
(Eds.), Bayreuther Mathemat.
Schr. 74, 7--18.
·
G.
J. McLachlan, R. W. Bean, and L. Ben-Tovim Jones
(2005). ``Extension of the mixture of factor analyzers
model to incorporate the multivariate t-distribution''. Computation Statistics
and Data Analysis 51, 5327--5338.
·
G.
J. McLachlan, S.K. Ng, and R. Bean (2006). ``Robust cluster analysis via
mixture models''. Austrian Journal of Statistics 35, 157--174.
·
G.
J. McLachlan, R. W. Bean, and L. Ben-Tovim Jones
(2006). ``A simple implementation of a normal mixture approach to differential
gene expression in
multiclass microarrays''. Bioinformatics 22, 1608--1615.
·
K.
E. Basford, G. J. McLachlan, and R. W. Bean (2006).
``Issues of robustness and high dimensionality in cluster analysis''.
Proceedings of COMPSTAT 2006,
Rizzi and M. Vichi
(Eds.), New York: Springer, pp. 3--15.
·
K-A.
Do, G. J. McLachlan, R. Bean, and S. Wen. (2006).
``Application of gene shaving and mixture models to cluster microarray gene
expression data''. Cancer Informatics 2,
1--19.
·
R.
Bean (2006), ``Latin trades on three or four rows''. Proceedings of for the International Workshop
on Combinatorics, Algebra, and Graph Coloring, Tehran, August 9-14, 2003. Discrete Mathematics 306, 3028--3041.
·
G.
J. McLachlan, R. Bean, and S. K. Ng (2007). ``Clustering of microarray data via
mixture models''. In Statistical Advances in Biomedical Sciences, A. Biswas, S. Datta, J. Fine, M.R.
Segal (Eds.). Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley. To appear.
·
C.
E. McLaren, V. R. Gordeuk, W.-P. Chen, E.L. Harris,
B.M. Snively, P.C. Adams, J.C. Barton, R.T. Acton,
D.M. Reboussin, M. Speechley,
O. Castro, G.J. McLachlan, R.W. Bean, and G.D. McLaren (2008). ``The
distribution of transferrin saturation and serum ferritin concentration in multiple race/ethnicities: the hemochromatosis and iron overload screening (HEIRS)
study.'' Translational Research. To appear.
·
G.
J. McLachlan, R. Bean, and S.K. Ng, (2008). ``Clustering.'' In Bioinformatics,
J. Keith (Ed.). Totowa, New Jersey: Humana Press. To appear.
·
S.K.
Ng, G.J. McLachlan, R.W. Bean, and S.W. Ng (2006). ``Clustering replicated
microarray data via mixtures of random effects models for various covariance structures''.
In Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, Vol. 73, M. Boden and T.L. Bailey (Eds.). Sydney: The Australian
Computer Society, pp. 29-33.
Achievements,
awards and memberships
·
Associate
Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics
and Its Applications
·
Life
Member of the Combinatorial Mathematical
Society of Australasia
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Graduate
Member of the Australian Mathematical
Society
·
Australian
Postgraduate Award 1998 - 2001
·
Michael
P. O'Donnell Memorial Prize for Pure Mathematics, 1996
·
Algebra
and Combinatorics Seminar organiser, Department of
Mathematics, University of Queensland, 1998 - 2001
Other
interests
Chess,
fitness, travel