Rob Salomone
@SalomoneRob
www.robsalomone.com
" We have lots of speakers from industry, you can discuss what its like being a scholar. " - Dr. Matias Quiroz
OK then...
The Early Years
University of Queensland
B.Sc. (Mathematics)
2011-2014
Meeting Dirk (2014)
A Monte Carlo Man
Honours (2014-2015)
PhD in Statistics (2015-2018)
Meet interesting people...
Hodgkinson, L., Salomone, R., and Roosta, F. (2019), Implicit Langevin Algorithms for Sampling From Log-concave Densities. arxiv:1903.12322
Salomone, R., South, L.F., Drovandi, C.C., and Kroese, D.P. (2018), Unbiased and Consistent Nested Sampling via Sequential Monte Carlo. arXiv:1805.03924
Botev, Z.I., Salomone, R., Mackinlay, D. (2019), Fast and accurate computation of the distribution of sums of dependent log-normals, Annals of Operations Research, 1-28.
Laub, P.J., Salomone, R., Botev, Z.I. (2019), Monte Carlo estimation of the density of the sum of dependent random variables, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation 161, 23-31.
...and write scholarly things with them!
Somewhere along the way...
I got the fancy hat(s)...
...and a fancy pen (for Dirk)...
Public Service Announcement
(for those considering PhD studies)
No-one will call you Dr.
Mr. Dr. Salomone
Postdoc UQ
August 2018 - Jan 2019
Postdoc (2019- )
University of New South Wales
What do I like?
- Highly Autonomous
- Always Learning
- Unpredictable
- Teaching
- Collaboration
- Set Your Own Hours
Collaboration
Possible Turnoffs
- Highly Autonomous >> Lacks Structure
- Always Learning >> Always Confused
- Unpredictable >> Unpredictable
- Teaching >> Time Management
- Collaboration >> Collaboration
- Set Your Own Hours >> Set Your Own 40-80 hours /wk
Unpredictability
Is it worth it?
One day?
Thanks for Listening!
Please come talk to me if you are interested in finding out more!
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