Dr Ding Ma

Researcher biography
Dr Ding Ma is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biostatistics in the ULTRA team (University of Queensland's cLinical TRials cApability). He holds a PhD in Statistics, with a focus on the estimation of semiparametric accelerated failure time (AFT) models incorporating time-varying covariates. Ding's research interests centre on the development and extension of semiparametric survival models, with expertise in survival analysis, semiparametric regression and computational statistics. He is passionate about advancing statistical methodologies to support applications in biostatistics, especially in the design and analysis of clinical trials. In addition to his research, Ding has extensive experience in tutoring a wide scope of statistics subjects, including introductory statistics, sampling design and analysis, statistical inference, statistical learning, etc.