Dr Agus Salim is Associate Professor in Biostatistics with the Melbourne School of Global and Population Health (joint with School of Mathematics and Statistics), The University of Melbourne. Agus has extensive experience in developing statistical methods for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics data and has made considerable contributions to normalisation, differential expression and pathway-based methods.  In 2017, he was jointly awarded Bioinformatics Peer Prize.

His current methodological research focuses on statistical methods for preprocessing and analyses of high-dimensional omics data and development of risk prediction models that combine high-dimensional omics data and traditional risk factors. He is an Associate Editor for BMC Medical Research Methodology.