Hello! I am a final-year PhD student at Monash University, supervised primarily by Susan Wei. Before starting my PhD, I worked as a data scientist at the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development in Western Australia. Prior to that, I completed my undergraduate and MPhil studies at the University of Western Australia.

Education

PhD in Data Science (2022–2026)
University of Melbourne, then Monash University (from late 2024)
Full scholarship. Fred Knight Scholar. Moved to Monash with my primary supervisor.

MPhil in Statistics (2017–2019)
The University of Western Australia
Full scholarship. Dean’s List (top 5% of thesis).

BSc (Honours) in Engineering & Mathematics (2013–2017)
The University of Western Australia
Final-year GPA 7/7.

Professional Experience

Data Scientist | Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Western Australia (2019–2025)
Worked on agricultural experiment data. Part-time from 2022. Maintainer of Flowerpower.

Tutor | The University of Western Australia (2016–2022)
Taught experiment design and statistical machine learning.

Contacts

My email address starts with kenyon.ng and ends with monash.edu.

Miscellaneous

My surname, “Ng,” is pronounced ung, without a vowel sound. It is the Hokkien (a Chinese dialect) pronunciation of 黄, which means yellow in English.
I am making this website as simple as possible.
I developed a tool to predict cereal flowering dates as part of my role at DPIRD.

Last updated: 8 Jun 2026