Hi there 👋

My name is Emi Tanaka and I like coding 😄

• 💬  I can speak English, Japanese and R (base + tidyverse) fluently
• 👩🏻‍💻  Pronouns: She/her
• 👩‍💻 I identify as an applied statistician, academic, research software engineer and statistical data scientist/artist
• 👩‍💼 I'm currently the Deputy Director of the Biological Data Science Institute at the Australian National University
• 📚 I'm also currently the Executive Editor of the R Journal
• 😅 I also serve as a council member for the:
  • ACT Branch of the Statistical Society of Australia, as well as
  • Australasian Region of the International Biometrics Society
• 🙋‍♀️ I'm organising the next Australasian Biometrics conference held 24-28th Nov 2025 in Canberra
• 🔎 My research interests include:
  • Experimental design,
  • Mixed models (also known as multi-level models, panel data models or hierarchical models),
  • Data visualisation and visual inference,
  • Applications in bioinformatics and selective breeding (particularly plant breeding),
  • Statistical software development, particularly in R,
  • Statistical practice and workflow (encompassing reproducibility, design, infrastructure and communication), and
  • Machine learning and artificial intelligence (including computer vision and large language models).
• 📫  How to reach me:
  • For my github repos, posting an an issue in the corresponding github repo.
  • For R help or related, stackoverflow or some other public forum so other people can benefit from your question (please don't email me R questions, although you are most welcomed to tag me in the public posts that you make).
  • For others, email emi.tanaka@anu.edu.au.