Nigel Bean

School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences

Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Professor Nigel Bean is internationally known for his research in stochastic modelling. He completed his B.Sc. (Hons) in Applied Mathematics at the University of Adelaide in 1988 and his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 1993. Since then he has been at the University of Adelaide in roles varying from a Postdoctoral fellow, Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Director of TRC Mathematical Modelling – a commercially funded contract research and consulting centre with a turnover then of over $750,000 – and then was appointed Chair of Applied Mathematics in 2004. Since then, he has been continuously on the School Management Committee and Head of Applied Mathematics. He has also been Director of Research (2011-17) and Deputy Head of School (2004-06, 2012--).

The quality of Professor Bean’s research has been recognised through the award of the 2001 JH Mitchell Medal by ANZIAM and the 2003 PAP Moran Medal by the Australian Academy of Science. Professor Bean has published about 90 scientific articles and has been awarded 8 ARC awards (Large Grants, Discovery Projects and a Linkage Grant). He is a Chief Investigator on the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS) and is also on their Executive Committee as the Deputy Director (Outreach). He has successfully supervised 23 PhD students and 7 MPhil students and currently supervises 8 PhD students and 5 MPhil students.

Professor Bean has been very active in national leadership roles. From 2008-2010, he was on the Board of the Federation of the Australian Scientific and Technological Societies (now known as Science and Technology Australia) as the Mathematical Sciences Cluster Representative. In 2011 and 2012 he was a member of the ACARA Australian Curriculum: Mathematics Advisory Panel. Professor Bean was also Co-Chair of the Sub-committee for Mathematics and statistics research in universities and related institutions and a member of the Steering Committee, Mathematical Sciences Decadal Plan (2012 -- 2016), as well as being a member of the Steering Committee. He was on the Board of the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI) from 2014-16. He recently joined the AMSI Industry Advisory Committee and played a leading role in the Australian Industry/Mathematical Sciences Engagement Task Force.

Professor Bean has boardroom experience through his role on the FASTS Board, as Chairperson of his children’s Primary School Governing Council and as a member of the Governing Council of a high school. He has also been on the AMSI Board from 2014-16.

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Appointments

Date	Position	Institution name
2004 - ongoing	Chair of Applied Mathematics	University of Adelaide
2002 - 2004	Director	University of Adelaide
1995 - 2004	Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor	University of Adelaide

Education

Date	Institution name	Country	Title
1989 - 1993	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	PhD
1988 - 1988	University of Adelaide	Australia	B. Sc. (Ma.) (Hons.) First Class
1985 - 1987	University of Adelaide	Australia	B. Sc. (Ma.)

Research Interests

Applied Mathematics Applied Statistics Biological Mathematics Mathematical Sciences Probability Theory Statistics Statistics & Probability Stochastic Analysis and Modelling

Journals

Year	Citation
2024	Fitzgerald, S. P., Bean, N. G., Falhammar, H., Hoermann, R., Korem Kohanim, Y., Pohlabeln, H., . . . Tomassetti, S. (2024). Population data evidence of interdependence of the limbs of hormonal feedback loops. The Journal of endocrinology, 262(1), 14 pages. DOI
2023	Tobler, R., Souilmi, Y., Huber, C. D., Bean, N., Turney, C. S. M., Grey, S. T., & Cooper, A. (2023). The role of genetic selection and climatic factors in the dispersal of anatomically modern humans out of Africa.. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 120(22), e2213061120. DOI Scopus7 Europe PMC5
2023	Fitzgerald, S. P., Bean, N. G., Falhammar, H., & Hoermann, R. (2023). Physiological linkage of thyroid and pituitary sensitivities. Endocrine, 79(1), 143-151. DOI Scopus4 WoS3 Europe PMC1
2022	Andreacchio, A., Bean, N., & Mitchell, L. (2022). Modelling Australian Rules Football as spatial systems with pairwise comparisons. Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, 18(4), 215-226. DOI
2022	Yates, L., Brittleton, L., & Bean, N. (2022). An investigation into the factors which influence attendance rates for psychology appointments in an adult intellectual disability service. ADVANCES IN MENTAL HEALTH AND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES, 16(4), 216-225. DOI
2022	Bean, N. G., O'Reilly, M. M., & Palmowski, Z. (2022). Matrix-analytic methods for the analysis of stochastic fluid-fluid models. Stochastic Models, 38(3), 416-461. DOI Scopus3
2022	Nasim, M., Weber, D., South, T., Tuke, J., Bean, N., Falzon, L., & Mitchell, L. (2022). Are we always in strife? A longitudinal study of the echo chamber effect in the Australian Twittersphere.
2022	Plein, M., O'Brien, K. I. R., Holdenb, M. H., Adamsa, M. P., Baker, C. M., Bean, N. G., . . . McDonald-Madden, E. (2022). Modeling total predation to avoid perverse outcomes from cat control in a data-poor island ecosystem.. Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology, 12 pages. DOI Scopus2 WoS1 Europe PMC2
2022	Bean, N. G., Nguyen, G. T., Nielsen, B. F., & Peralta, O. (2022). RAP-modulated fluid processes: First passages and the stationary distribution. Stochastic Processes and their Applications, 149, 308-340. DOI Scopus2 WoS1
2022	Fitzgerald, S. P., Bean, N. G., Fitzgerald, S. P., & Falhammar, H. (2022). The application of new concepts of the assessment of the thyroid state to pregnant women. Frontiers in Endocrinology, 13, 9 pages. DOI Scopus2 WoS1 Europe PMC1
2022	Bean, N., Lewis, A., Nguyen, G. T., O'Reilly, M. M., & Sunkara, V. (2022). A Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Approximating the Stationary Distribution of Stochastic Fluid-Fluid Processes. Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, 24(4), 2823-2864. DOI Scopus1
2021	Teo, M., Bean, N., & Ross, J. V. (2021). Optimised prophylactic vaccination in metapopulations. Epidemics, 34, 100420-1-100420-18. DOI Scopus1 WoS1 Europe PMC1
2021	Boyle, L. M., Mackay, M., Bean, N., & Roughan, M. (2021). Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on South Australia's emergency departments: evidence from two lockdowns. Australian Health Review, 45(5), 533-539. DOI Scopus7 WoS5 Europe PMC3
2021	Fitzgerald, S. P., Bean, N. G., Hennessey, J. V., & Falhammar, H. (2021). Thyroid testing paradigm switch from thyrotropin to thyroid hormones—Future directions and opportunities in clinical medicine and research. Endocrine, 74(2), 285-289. DOI Scopus7 WoS3 Europe PMC4
2021	Tobler, R., Souilmi, Y., Huber, C., Bean, N., Turney, C., Cooper, A., & Grey, S. (2021). Genetic and climatic factors in the dispersal of Anatomically Modern Humans Out of Africa. DOI
2021	Bean, N. G., O'Reilly, M. M., & Palmowski, Z. (2021). Yaglom limit for stochastic fluid models. Advances in Applied Probability, 53(3), 649-686. DOI Scopus1
2020	Tuke, J., Nguyen, A., Nasim, M., Mellor, D., Wickramasinghe, A., Bean, N. G., & Mitchell, L. (2020). Pachinko Prediction: A Bayesian method for event prediction from social media data. Information Processing and Management, 57(2), 102147-1-102147-13. DOI Scopus16 WoS10
2020	Crotty, S. M., Minh, B. Q., Bean, N. G., Holland, B. R., Tuke, J., Jermiin, L. S., & von Haeseler, A. (2020). GHOST: Recovering Historical Signal from Heterotachously-evolved Sequence Alignments.. Systematic biology, 69(2), 249-264. DOI Scopus106 WoS75 Europe PMC65
2020	Samuelson, A., O Reilly, M. M., & Bean, N. G. (2020). Construction of algorithms for discrete-time quasi-birth-and-death processes through physical interpretation. Stochastic Models, 36(2), 193-222. DOI Scopus1
2020	Fitzgerald, S. P., Bean, N. G., Falhammar, H., & Tuke, S. J. (2020). CLINICAL PARAMETERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THYROID HORMONE LEVELS THAN WITH TSH LEVELS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS.. Thyroid, 30(12), 1695-1709. DOI Scopus67 WoS52 Europe PMC41
2020	Fitzgerald, S. P., Bean, N. G., & Falhammar, H. (2020). Authors' Response to Hennessey re: DOI: 10.1089/thy.2019.0535. Thyroid, 30(12), 1835-1836. DOI Scopus1 WoS1 Europe PMC1
2020	Lewis, A., Bean, N., & Nguyen, G. (2020). Bayesian estimation of trend components within Markovian regime-switching models for wholesale electricity prices: an application to the South Australian wholesale electricity market.
2020	Tuke, J., Nguyen, A., Nasim, M., Mellor, D., Wickramasinghe, A., Bean, N. G., & Mitchell, L. (2020). Pachinko Prediction: A Bayesian method for event prediction from social media data.. Inf. Process. Manag., 57, 102147.
2019	Glonek, M., Tuke, J., Mitchell, L., & Bean, N. G. (2019). Semi-supervised graph labelling reveals increasing partisanship in the United States Congress.. CoRR, abs/1904.01153.
2019	Teo, M., Bean, N., & Ross, J. (2019). Optimised prophylactic vaccination in metapopulations. DOI
2019	Glonek, M., Tuke, J., Mitchell, L., & Bean, N. (2019). Semi-supervised graph labelling reveals increasing partisanship in the United States Congress. Applied Network Science, 4(1), 62-1-62-18. DOI Scopus1 WoS1
2019	Fitzgerald, S. P., Grote Beverborg, N., Beguin, Y., Artunc, F., Falhammar, H., & Bean, N. G. (2019). Population data provide evidence against the presence of a set point for hemoglobin levels or tissue oxygen delivery. Physiological Reports, 7(12), e14153-1-e14153-10. DOI Scopus3 WoS1 Europe PMC2
2018	Bean, N., Latouche, G., & Taylor, P. (2018). Physical Interpretations for Quasi-Birth-and-Death Process Algorithms. Queueing Models and Service Management, 1(2), 59-78. Scopus2
2018	Fitzgerald, S. P., & Bean, N. G. (2018). Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) autoregulation reduces variation in the TSH response to thyroid hormones. Temperature (Austin, Tex.), 5(4), 380-389. DOI Scopus11 Europe PMC4
2018	Price, D., Bean, N., Ross, J., & Tuke, J. (2018). An induced natural selection heuristic for finding optimal Bayesian experimental designs. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 126(C), 112-124. DOI Scopus10 WoS9
2018	Rebuli, N., Bean, N., & Ross, J. (2018). Estimating the basic reproductive number during the early stages of an emerging epidemic. Theoretical Population Biology, 119, 26-36. DOI Scopus11 WoS7 Europe PMC9
2018	Fitzgerald, S., & Bean, N. (2018). Population correlations do not support the existence of set points for blood levels of calcium or glucose - a new model for homeostasis. Physiological Reports, 6(1), 1-9. DOI Scopus4 WoS3 Europe PMC3
2018	Varney, J., Bean, N., & Mackay, M. (2018). The self-regulating nature of occupancy in ICUs: stochastic homoeostasis. Health Care Management Science, 22(4), 1-20. DOI Scopus10 WoS5 Europe PMC2
2018	Bean, N., Nguyen, G. T., & Poloni, F. (2018). Doubling algorithms for stationary distributions of fluid queues: A probabilistic interpretation. Performance Evaluation, 125, 1-20. DOI Scopus3 WoS2
2018	Price, D. J., Bean, N. G., Ross, J. V., & Tuke, J. (2018). Designing group dose-response studies in the presence of transmission. Mathematical Biosciences, 304, 62-78. DOI Scopus3 WoS3 Europe PMC3
2017	Fitzgerald, S. P., Bean, N. G., & Fitzgerald, L. N. (2017). Population data indicate that thyroid regulation is consistent with an equilibrium-point model, but not with a set-point model. Temperature, 4(2), 114-116. DOI Scopus8 Europe PMC7
2017	Ballard, P., Bean, N., & Ross, J. (2017). Intervention to maximise the probability of epidemic fade-out. Mathematical Biosciences, 293, 1-10. DOI Scopus1 WoS2 Europe PMC2
2017	Samuelson, A., O Reilly, M., & Bean, N. (2017). On the generalized reward generator for stochastic fluid models: a new equation for Ψ. Stochastic Models, 33(4), 495-523. DOI Scopus5 WoS2
2017	Fitzgerald, S. P., & Bean, N. G. (2017). The Relationship between Population T4/TSH Set Point Data and T4/TSH Physiology (vol 2016, 6351473, 2016). JOURNAL OF THYROID RESEARCH, 2017, 2 pages. DOI WoS3
2017	Fitzgerald, S., Bean, N., & Ruberu, R. (2017). A method of decision analysis quantifying the effects of age and comorbidities on the probability of deriving significant benefit from medical treatments.. Journal of comorbidity, 7(1), 50-63. DOI Europe PMC1
2017	Varney, J., Zarrouk, S., Bean, N., & Bendall, B. (2017). Performance measures in geothermal power developments. Renewable Energy, 101, 835-844. DOI Scopus14 WoS11
2017	Rebuli, N., Bean, N., & Ross, J. (2017). Hybrid Markov chain models of S-I-R disease dynamics. Journal of Mathematical Biology, 75(3), 521-541. DOI Scopus13 WoS10 Europe PMC6
2017	Samuelson, A., Haigh, A., O'Reilly, M., & Bean, N. (2017). Stochastic model for maintenance in continuously deteriorating systems. European Journal of Operational Research, 259(3), 1169-1179. DOI Scopus12 WoS9
2017	Tobler, R., Rohrlach, A., Soubrier, J., Bover Arbos, P., Llamas, B., Tuke, J., . . . Cooper, A. (2017). Aboriginal mitogenomes reveal 50,000 years of regionalism in Australia. Nature, 544(7649), 180-184. DOI Scopus148 WoS121 Europe PMC44
2016	Dini, S., Binder, B., Fischer, S., Mattheyer, C., Schmitz, A., Stelzer, E., . . . Green, J. (2016). Identifying the necrotic zone boundary in tumour spheroids with pair-correlation functions. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 13(123), 20160649-1-20160649-11. DOI Scopus24 WoS14 Europe PMC11
2016	Fitzgerald, S., & Bean, N. (2016). The Relationship between Population T4/TSH Set Point Data and T4/TSH Physiology. Journal of Thyroid Research, 2016, 6351473. DOI Scopus25 WoS19 Europe PMC17
2016	Ballard, P. G., Bean, N. G., & Ross, J. V. (2016). The probability of epidemic fade-out is non-monotonic in transmission rate for the Markovian SIR model with demography. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 393, 170-178. DOI Scopus9 WoS5 Europe PMC5
2016	Price, D. J., Bean, N. G., Ross, J. V., & Tuke, J. (2016). On the efficient determination of optimal Bayesian experimental designs using ABC: a case study in optimal observation of epidemics. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 172, 1-15. DOI Scopus10 WoS9
2016	Bean, N., Eshragh, A., & Ross, J. (2016). Fisher Information for a partially-observable simple birth process. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 45(24), 7161-7183. DOI Scopus1 WoS2
2016	Lydeamore, M., Bean, N., Black, A., & Ross, J. (2016). Choice of antiviral allocation scheme for pandemic influenza depends on strain transmissibility, delivery delay and stockpile size. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 78(2), 293-321. DOI Scopus2 WoS1 Europe PMC2
2015	Bean, N. G., Elliott, R., Eshragh, A., & Ross, J. V. (2015). On binomial observations of continuous-time Markovian population models. Journal of Applied Probability, 52(2), 457-472. DOI Scopus2 WoS2
2015	Robinson, S., Souter, N., Bean, N., Ross, J., Thompson, R., & Bjornsson, K. (2015). Statistical description of wetland hydrological connectivity to the River Murray in South Australia under both natural and regulated conditions. Journal of Hydrology, 531(3), 929-939. DOI Scopus20 WoS12
2014	Davies, K., Green, J., Bean, N., Binder, B., & Ross, J. (2014). On the derivation of approximations to cellular automata models and the assumption of independence. Mathematical Biosciences, 253(1), 63-71. DOI Scopus9 WoS6 Europe PMC3
2014	Bean, N., & O'Reilly, M. (2014). The stochastic fluid-fluid model: a stochastic fluid model driven by an uncountable-state process, which is a stochastic fluid model itself. Stochastic Processes and their Applications, 124(5), 1741-1772. DOI Scopus15 WoS10
2014	Feenstra, J., McGarvey, R., Linnane, A., Punt, A., & Bean, N. (2014). Environmental influences on daily commercial catch rates of South Australia's southern rock lobster (Jasus edwardsii). Fisheries Oceanography, 23(4), 362-374. DOI Scopus7 WoS6
2013	Bean, N., Pollett, P., Ross, J., & Taylor, P. (2013). Preface. Ecological Modelling, 249, 1-2. DOI Scopus1 WoS1
2013	Bean, N., & O'Reilly, M. (2013). Spatially-coherent uniformization of a stochastic fluid model to a Quasi-Birth-and-Death process. Performance Evaluation, 70(9), 578-592. DOI Scopus5 WoS5
2013	Bean, N., & Jewell, N. (2013). Value-driven river management: A Murray River case study. Australian Journal of Water Resources, 17(1), 47-64. DOI Scopus1
2013	Bean, N., & O'Reilly, M. (2013). A stochastic two-dimensional fluid model. Stochastic Models, 29(1), 31-63. DOI Scopus28 WoS21
2012	Bean, N., O'Reilly, M., & Ren, Y. (2012). Second-order Markov reward models driven by QBD processes. Performance Evaluation, 69(9), 440-445. DOI Scopus3 WoS1
2012	Simms, K., Bean, N., & Koerber, A. (2012). A mathematical model of cell cycle progression applied to the MCF-7 breast cancer cell line. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 74(3), 736-767. DOI Scopus7 WoS5 Europe PMC3
2012	Bean, N. G., & Nielsen, B. F. (2012). Analysis of queues with rational arrival process components. ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, 39(4), 31. DOI
2011	Fitzgerald, S., & Bean, N. (2011). Response to Rozzini and Trabucchi's Letter to the Editor. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 12(4), 318. DOI
2010	Bean, N., & Latouche, G. (2010). Approximations to quasi-birth-and-death processes with infinite blocks. Advances in Applied Probability, 42(4), 1102-1125. DOI Scopus7 WoS5
2010	Bean, N., & Nielsen, B. (2010). Quasi-birth-and-death processes with rational arrival process components. Stochastic Models, 26(3), 309-334. DOI Scopus24 WoS20
2010	Piantadosi, J., Howlett, P., Bean, N., & Beecham, S. (2010). Modelling systems of reservoirs using structured Markov chains. Institution of Civil Engineers. Proceedings. Water Management, 163(8), 407-416. DOI Scopus4 WoS4
2010	Fitzgerald, S., & Bean, N. (2010). An analysis of the interactions between individual comorbidities and their treatments - implications for guidelines and polypharmacy. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 11(7), 475-484. DOI Scopus89 WoS88 Europe PMC38
2010	Bean, N., O'Reilly, M., & Sargison, J. (2010). A stochastic fluid flow model of the operation and maintenance of power generation systems. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 25(3), 1361-1374. DOI Scopus26 WoS21
2010	Flavel, A., McMahon, J., Shaikh, A., Roughan, M., & Bean, N. (2010). BGP route prediction within ISPs. Computer Communications, 33(10), 1180-1190. DOI Scopus8 WoS6
2009	Bean, N., O'Reilly, M., & Taylor, P. (2009). Hitting probabilities and hitting times for stochastic fluid flows the bounded model. Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, 23(1), 121-147. DOI Scopus28 WoS21
2008	Bean, N., & O'Reilly, M. (2008). Performance measures of a multi-layer Markovian fluid model. Annals of Operations Research, 160(1), 99-120. DOI Scopus34 WoS26
2008	Bean, N., Kontoleon, N., & Taylor, P. (2008). Markovian trees: properties and algorithms. Annals of Operations Research, 160(1), 31-50. DOI Scopus27 WoS25
2008	Bean, N., Fackrell, M., & Taylor, P. (2008). Characterization of matrix-exponential distributions. Stochastic Models, 24(3), 339-363. DOI Scopus24 WoS18
2008	Bean, N., O'Reilly, M., & Taylor, P. (2008). Algorithms for the Laplace–Stieltjes transforms of first return times for stochastic fluid flows. Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, 10(3), 381-408. DOI Scopus39 WoS31
2006	Wheeler, S., Bean, N., Gaffney, J., & Taylor, P. (2006). A Markov analysis of social learning and adaptation. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 16(3), 299-319. DOI Scopus6 WoS6
2005	Bean, N., O'Reilly, M., & Taylor, P. (2005). Algorithms for return probabilities for stochastic fluid flows. Stochastic Models, 21(1), 149-184. DOI Scopus68 WoS51
2005	Bean, N., & Costa, A. (2005). An analytic modelling approach for network routing algorithms that use "ant-like" mobile agents. Computer Networks-The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking, 49(2), 243-268. DOI Scopus28 WoS16
2005	Bean, N., O'Reilly, M., & Taylor, P. (2005). Hitting probabilities and hitting times for stochastic fluid flows. Stochastic Processes and their Applications, 115(9), 1530-1556. DOI Scopus64 WoS53
2005	Hui, K., Bean, N., Kraetzl, M., & Kroese, D. (2005). The cross-entropy method for network reliability estimation. Annals of Operations Research, 134(1), 101-118. DOI Scopus84 WoS61
2003	Hui, K., Bean, N., Kraetzl, M., & Kroese, D. (2003). The tree cut and merge algorithm for estimation of network reliability. Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, 17(1), 23-45. DOI Scopus21 WoS14
2000	Bean, N., & Stewart, M. (2000). A new perspective on the normalization of invariant measures for loss networks and other product form systems. Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 31(10-12), 47-54. DOI Scopus1
2000	Bean, N., Pollett, P., & Taylor, P. (2000). Quasistationary distributions for level-dependent quasi-birth-and-death processes. Stochastic Models, 16(5), 511-541. DOI Scopus15
2000	Bean, N., & Green, D. (2000). When is a MAP poisson?. Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 31(10-12), 31-46. DOI Scopus5 WoS6
2000	Bean, N., Brown, D., & Taylor, P. (2000). Maximal profit dimensioning and tariffing of loss networks with cross-connects. Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 31(10-12), 21-30. DOI WoS1
1998	Bean, N., Green, D., & Taylor, P. (1998). The Output Process of an MMPP/M/1 Queue. Journal of Applied Probability, 35(4), 998-1002. DOI Scopus9 WoS7
1998	Bean, N., Pollett, P., & Taylor, P. (1998). The Quasistationary Distributions of Level-Independent Quasi-Birth-and-Death Processes. Communications in Statistics - Stochastic Models, 14(1-2), 389-406. DOI
1997	Bean, N., Kelly, F., & Taylor, P. (1997). Braess's paradox in a loss network. Journal of Applied Probability, 34(1), 155-159. DOI Scopus53 WoS46
1997	Bean, N., Gibbens, R., & Zachary, S. (1997). Dynamic and equilibrium behaviour of controlled loss networks. Annals of Applied Probability, 7(4), 873-885. DOI Scopus12 WoS10
1996	Bean, N. (1996). Secrets of network success. Physics World, 9(2), 30-33. DOI Scopus3 WoS1
1995	Bean, N., Gibbens, R., & Zachary, S. (1995). Asymptotic analysis of single resource loss systems in heavy traffic, with applications to integrated networks. Advances in Applied Probability, 27(1), 273-292. DOI WoS31
1995	Bean, N. (1995). Dynamic effective bandwidths using network observation and the bootstrap. Australian Telecommunication Research, 29(1), 43-52.
1995	Bean, N., Bright, L., Latouche, G., Pearce, C., Pollett, P., & Taylor, P. (1995). The quasi-stationary behavior of quasi-birth-and-death processes. Annals of Applied Probability, 7(1), 134-155. Scopus30 WoS30
1995	Bean, N., & Taylor, P. (1995). Maximal profit dimensioning and tariffing of loss networks. Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, 9(3), 323-340. DOI Scopus7
1995	BEAN, N., BENNETT, K. M., & LEHMANN, A. B. (1995). HABITUS AND HIP FRACTURE REVISITED - SKELETAL SIZE, STRENGTH AND COGNITION RATHER THAN THINNESS. AGE AND AGEING, 24(6), 481-484. DOI WoS12 Europe PMC9
1994	Bean, N. G. (1994). Robust connection acceptance control for ATM networks with incomplete source information. Annals of Operations Research, 48(4), 357-379. DOI Scopus9 WoS6
-	Bean, N., Lewis, A., & Nguyen, G. (n.d.). Estimation of Markovian-regime-switching models with independent regimes.

Book Chapters

Year	Citation
2012	Costa, A., & Bean, N. (2012). Network routing. In J. Cao, & S. Das (Eds.), Mobile Agents in Networking and Distributed Computing (pp. 129-160). Hoboken, New Jersey; USA: John Wiley & Sons. DOI Scopus1

Conference Papers

Year	Citation
2019	Mathews, P., Gray, C., Mitchell, L., Nguyen, G., & Bean, N. G. (2019). SMERC: Social media event response clustering using textual and temporal information. In Proceedings - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2018 Vol. abs 1106 4300 (pp. 3695-3700). online: IEEE. DOI Scopus1 WoS1
2019	Glonek, M., Tuke, S., Mitchell, L., & Bean, N. (2019). GLaSS: Semi-supervised graph labelling with Markov random walks to absorption. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications (COMPLEX NETWORKS 2018), as published in Complex Networks and Their Applications VII: Volume 1 Vol. 812 (pp. 304-315). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. DOI Scopus1
2019	Glenny, V., Tuke, J., Bean, N., & Mitchell, L. (2019). A framework for streamlined statistical prediction using topic models. In Proceedings of the 3rd Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature Vol. abs/1904.06941 (pp. 61-70). Minneapolis, MN: Association for Computational Linguistics. Scopus1
2019	Nguyen, A., South, T., Bean, N., Tuke, S. J., & Mitchell, L. (2019). Podlab at SemEval-2019 Task 3: The Importance of Being Shallow. In Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (pp. 292-296). online: The Association for Computational Linguistics.
2017	Tarca, S., Roughan, M., Ertugrul, N., & Bean, N. (2017). Dispatchability of Wind Power with Battery Energy Storage in South Australia. In F. Alam, R. Jazar, & H. Chowdhury (Eds.), Energy Procedia. 1st International Conference on Energy and Power Vol. 110 (pp. 1-7). Online: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV. DOI Scopus12 WoS9
2017	Mathews, P., Mitchell, L., Nguyen, G. T., & Bean, N. G. (2017). The nature and origin of heavy tails in retweet activity. In Proceedings of the 26th International World Wide Web Conference (pp. 1493-1498). Perth, Australia: Association for Computing Machinery. DOI Scopus18 WoS7
2014	Bowden, R., Roughan, M., & Bean, N. (2014). COLD: Pop-level network topology synthesis. In Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies Vol. 90 (pp. 173-184). Sydney, NSW: ACM. DOI Scopus6 WoS5
2012	Henecka, W., Bean, N., & Roughan, M. (2012). Conversion of real-numbered privacy-preserving problems into the integer domain. In Information and Communications Security Vol. 7618 LNCS (pp. 131-141). Hong Kong, China: Springer. DOI
2012	Varney, J., & Bean, N. (2012). Performance of air-cooled organic Rankine cycle plants using temperature distributions from arid parts of South Australia. In Proceedings of the 2012 Australian Geothermal Energy Conference (pp. 210-217). Australia: Geoscience Australia.
2012	Varney, J., & Bean, N. (2012). Building a model to investigate the effect of varying ambient air temperature on air-cooled organic Rankine cycle plant performance. In Proceedings of the 2012 Australian Geothermal Energy Conference (pp. 218-228). Australia: Geoscience Australia.
2012	Varney, J., & Bean, N. (2012). Air-cooled binary rankine cycle performance with varying ambient temperature. In Geothermal Resources Council Annual Meeting 2012 - Geothermal: Reliable, Renewable, Global, GRC 2012 Vol. 36 2 (pp. 1125-1131). Reno, NV. Scopus1
2011	Bowden, R., Roughan, M., & Bean, N. (2011). Network link tomography and compressive sensing. In Proceedings of SIGMETRICS '11 Proceedings of the ACM SIGMETRICS joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems Vol. 39 (pp. 159-160). United States: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.. DOI Scopus2
2009	Flavel, A., McMahon, J., Shaikh, A., Roughan, M., & Bean, N. (2009). Humpty Dumpty: Putting iBGP Back Together Again. In Proceedings of the 8th International IFIP-TC 6 Networking Conference Vol. 5550 LNCS (pp. 52-65). Germany: Springer. DOI
2009	Bednarz, A., Bean, N., & Roughan, M. (2009). Hiccups on the road to privacy-preserving linear programming. In Proceedings of WPES'09 (pp. 117-120). United States: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.. DOI Scopus26
2008	Arnold, J., & Bean, N. (2008). Communication Systems 2using time difference of arrival. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (pp. 1-10). CD: IEEE.
2008	Flavel, A., Roughan, M., Bean, N., & Shaikh, A. (2008). Where’s Waldo? practical searches for stability in iBGP. In Proceedings of the IEEE 16th ICNP 2008 (pp. 308-317). CD: IEEE. DOI Scopus13 WoS4
2008	Flavel, A., Maennel, O., Chiera, B., Roughan, M., & Bean, N. (2008). CleanBGP: Verifying the consistency of BGP data. In Proceedings of the International Network Management Workshop Vol. 4 (pp. 1-6). CD: IEEE. DOI Scopus4
2008	Arnold, J., & Bean, N. (2008). Node localisation in wireless Ad hoc networks using time difference of arrival. In B. J. Wysocki, & T. A. Wysocki (Eds.), 2nd International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems, ICSPCS 2008 - Proceedings (pp. 127-+). Gold Coast, AUSTRALIA: IEEE. DOI Scopus2
2007	Flavel, A., Roughan, M., Bean, N., & Maennel, O. (2007). Modeling BGP table fluctuations. In L. Mason, T. Drwiega, & J. Yan (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Teletraffic Congress, ITC20 2007 Vol. 4516 LNCS (pp. 141-153). Berlin: Springer. DOI Scopus3 WoS2
2007	Tang, T., Green, D., Rumsewicz, M., & Bean, N. (2007). An architecture for IEEE 802.16 MAC scheduler design. In A. Dadej (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2007 15th IEEE International Conference on Networks Vol. 3280 (pp. 89-94). Australia: IEEE. DOI Scopus3 WoS1
2007	Arnold, J., Bean, N., Kraetzl, M., & Roughan, M. (2007). Node localisation in wireless ad hoc networks. In A. Dadej (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2007 15th IEEE International Conference on Networks (pp. 425-430). Adelaide, Australia: IEEE. DOI Scopus7
2007	Karim, S., Green, D., Rumsewicz, M., & Bean, N. (2007). Flexible throughput management in IEEE 802.11e wireless LANs. In A. Dadej (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2007 15th IEEE International Conference on Networks (pp. 295-300). Australia: IEEE. DOI
2007	Arnold, J., Bean, N., Kraetzl, M., Roughan, M., & Sorell, M. (2007). Topology reconstruction and characterisation of wireless ad hoc networks. In J. Thompson, & I. Andonovic (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Communications (pp. 1-8). CDROM: IEEE. DOI Scopus2
2004	Bean, N., Qureshi, N., Guilbert, P., Bethea, J., & Ritchie, S. (2004). Outreach education and support to General Practices by Genetic Counsellors: a demonstration project. In JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS Vol. 41 (pp. S14). Univ York, York, ENGLAND: B M J PUBLISHING GROUP.
2003	Hui, K., Bean, N., Kraetzl, M., & Kroese, D. (2003). Network reliability estimation using the tree cut and merge algorithm with importance sampling. In M. MacGregor (Ed.), Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN 2003) Vol. 10 (pp. 254-262). Canada: The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. DOI Scopus9 WoS7
2002	Bean, N., & Nielsen, B. (2002). Decay rates of discrete phase-type distributions with infinitely-many phases. In G. Latouche, & P. Taylor (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Matrix-Analytic Methods in Stochastic Models (pp. 17-38). Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.. DOI WoS3
2000	Bean, N., Li, J., & Taylor, P. (2000). Caudal characteristics of QBDs with decomposable phase spaces. In G. Latouche, & P. Taylor (Eds.), Advances in algorithmic methods for stochastic models - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Matrix Analytic Methods (pp. 37-55). New Jersey, USA: Notable Publications Inc.
1998	Bean, N. G., Green, D. A., & Taylor, P. G. (1998). Approximations to the output process of MAP/PH/1 queues. In A. S. Alfa, & S. R. Chakravarthy (Eds.), Advances in matrix-analytic methods for stochastic models (pp. 151-170). Winnipeg, Canada: Notable Publications, Incorporated.
1998	Bean, N. G., Latouche, G. G., & Taylor, P. G. (1998). Quasi-Reversibility and Quasi-Birth-and-Death processes. In A. S. Alfa, & S. R. Chakravarthy (Eds.), Advances in matrix-analytic methods for stochastic models (pp. 115-134). Winnipeg, Canada: Notable Publications, Incorporated.
1998	Bean, N. G., Li, J., & Taylor, P. G. (1998). Some asymptotic properties of two-stage tandem networks of PH/PH/1 queues. In A. S. Alfa, & S. R. Chakravarthy (Eds.), Advances in matrix-analytic methods for stochastic models (pp. 171-194). Winnipeg, Canada: Notable Publications, Incorporated.
1998	Bean, N. G., & Taylor, P. G. (1998). Braess's Paradox in Communication Networks. In E. O. Tuck, & J. A. K. Stott (Eds.), Proceedings of EMAC '98, 3rd Biennial Engineering Mathematics and Applications Conference. Adelaide: The Institution of Engineers, Australia.
1996	Bean, N. G., Brown, D. R., & Taylor, P. G. (1996). Maximal Profit Dimensioning and Tariffing of Loss Networks with Cross-connects. In roceedings of the Second Australia-Japan Workshop on Stochastic Models. Gold Coast.
1996	Bean, N. G., Green, D. A., & Taylor, P. G. (1996). When is a MAP Poisson?. In Proceedings of the Second Australia-Japan Workshop on Stochastic Models. Gold Coast.
1996	Bean, N. G., Pollett, P. K., & Taylor, P. G. (1996). The Quasistationary Distributions of Homogeneous Quasi-Birth-and-Death Processes. In Proceedings of the Second Australia-Japan Workshop on Stochastic Models. Gold Coast.
1996	Bean, N. G., & Stewart, M. A. (1996). A New Perspective on the Normalisation of Invariant Measures for Loss Networks and Other Product Form Systems. In Proceedings of the Second Australia-Japan Workshop on Stochastic Models. Gold Coast.
1995	Bean, N. G., & Stewart, M. A. (1995). A note on the use of Fast Fourier Transforms in Buzen's Algorithm. In Proceedings of the Australian Telecommunication Networks & Applications Conference 1995. Sydney.
1994	Bean, N. G. (1994). Effective bandwidths with different quality of service requirements. In V. B. Iversen (Ed.), IFIP Transactions C: Communication Systems Vol. 18 (pp. 241-252). COPENHAGEN, DENMARK: ELSEVIER SCIENCE PUBL B V. Scopus7 WoS2
1994	Bean, N. G., Gibbens, R. J., & Zachary, S. (1994). The performance of single resource loss systems in multiservice networks. In J. Labetoulle, & J. W. Roberts (Eds.), FUNDAMENTAL ROLE OF TELETRAFFIC IN THE EVOLUTION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS, VOLS 1A AND 1B Vol. 1 (pp. 13-21). ANTIBES JUAN LES PINS, FRANCE: ELSEVIER SCIENCE PUBL B V. WoS3
1992	Bean, N. G., & Doar, J. M. S. (1992). Design and Performance Analysis of a Slotted Ring Multicast ATM Fabric. In Proceedings of the 8th United Kingdom Performance Engineering Workshop. Imperial College, University of London.

Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
2023	Co-Supervisor	Applications of data science and artificial intelligence to support intellectual property development in the creative industries	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Mr Anton Andreacchio

Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
2019 - 2021	Co-Supervisor	A Machine Learning Approach for Detecting Selective Sweeps using Ancient DNA	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Shing Yan Kwong
2019 - 2022	Co-Supervisor	Investigating Dependence Between the Arrival Process and Service Time Distribution of Single-Server Queueing Models	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Miss Miriam Catharina Slattery
2018 - 2022	Co-Supervisor	Statistical modelling of queueing systems	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Sarah Ellen James
2018 - 2020	Principal Supervisor	Stochastic Modelling of Coral-Algal Symbiosis on the Great Barrier Reef	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Max Sinclair Wurm
2018 - 2023	Principal Supervisor	Approximating fluid queues	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Angus Hamilton Lewis
2018 - 2023	Principal Supervisor	Data Science and Usefulness in Domains of Human Action	Master of Philosophy	Master	Part Time	Mr Anton Andreacchio
2017 - 2019	Principal Supervisor	In the mood for food: Markov-modulated models for animal foraging	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Lachlan James Bridges
2017 - 2019	Co-Supervisor	Explanatory statistical modelling of influences of demographic experience on political identity	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Lachlann Bradley McArthur
2016 - 2019	Principal Supervisor	Characterising the Social Media Temporal Response to External Events	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Peter Mathews
2016 - 2018	Principal Supervisor	Inference of Markovian-regime-switching Models with Application to South Australian Electricity Prices	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Angus Hamilton Lewis
2016 - 2018	Principal Supervisor	A methodology for predictive topic modelling; or, any excuse to watch Love Actually	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Miss Vanessa Grace Glenny
2015 - 2018	Principal Supervisor	Epidemic fade-out in the Markovian SIR-with-demography infection model	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Mr Peter Geoffrey Ballard
2015 - 2017	Principal Supervisor	Consensus Sequence Estimation Methods for DNA Sequence Data Sets	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Miss Sarah Ellen James
2014 - 2017	Principal Supervisor	Optimal Allocation of Vaccines in Metapopulations	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mingmei Teo
2014 - 2018	Principal Supervisor	Hybrid methodology for Markovian epidemic models	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Nicolas Peter Rebuli
2014 - 2019	Principal Supervisor	Statistical Methods for Identifying Demographic Structure in DNA Sequence Alignments	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Dr Adam Rohrlach
2013 - 2016	Principal Supervisor	Medical Decision Making: Modelling Multiple Treatments	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Eka Kristiana Baker
2013 - 2015	Principal Supervisor	Approximations of Stochastic Household Models for Comparing Antiviral Allocation Schemes	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Michael John Lydeamore
2012 - 2014	Principal Supervisor	Data Driven Model Selection and Parameter Estimation Using Semi-Automatic Approximate Bayesian Computation to Reconstruct Population Dynamics from Ancient DNA	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Dr Adam Rohrlach
2012 - 2013	Principal Supervisor	Interval Markov chains: Performance measures and sensitivity analysis	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mingmei Teo
2012 - 2015	Principal Supervisor	On the Advancement of Optimal Experimental Design with Applications to Infectious Diseases	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	David James Price
2012 - 2017	Principal Supervisor	GHOST: A Time-reversible Mixture Model for Recovering Phylogenetic Signal from Heterotachously-evolved Sequence Alignments	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Stephen Crotty
2012 - 2016	Principal Supervisor	On the Derivation and Application of Closure Approximations of Cellular Automata Models	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Mr Kale James Davies
2011 - 2013	Principal Supervisor	Mathematical Modelling and Statistical Analysis of School-Based Student Performance Data	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mrs Jessica Jolley
2011 - 2015	Principal Supervisor	Using Aggregated Demographic Data to Inform Electoral Boundary Redistributions: 2010 South Australian Election	Master of Philosophy	Master	Part Time	Mr Casey Simon Briggs
2011 - 2015	Co-Supervisor	Network Management in a World of Secrets	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Wilko Henecka
2009 - 2018	Principal Supervisor	Modelling the Population and Catchability of the Southern Rock Lobster (Jasus edwardsii) in South Australia and Victoria Using Commercial Fisheries Catch Rate Data	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Mr John Erik Feenstra
2009 - 2015	Co-Supervisor	Link Loss Tomography and Topology Synthesis	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Rhys Bowden
2009 - 2016	Principal Supervisor	Optimisation of Geothermal Systems	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Ms Josephine Varney
2008 - 2012	Co-Supervisor	Methods for Two-Party Privacy-Preserving Linear Programming	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Alice Bednarz
2007 - 2012	Principal Supervisor	Mathematical Models of Cell Cycle Progression: Applications to Breast Cancer Cell Lines	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Miss Kate Simms
2004 - 2005	Co-Supervisor	An Investigation of Measurement-Based Load and QoS Management in a Distributed Audio Environment	Master of Science in Mathematical and Computer Sciences	Master	Full Time	Mr Mathew Kinghorn
2004 - 2009	Co-Supervisor	Bandwidth Allocation for Quality of Service Provision in IEEE 802.16 Systems	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Tze Tang
2004 - 2008	Principal Supervisor	Time-Dependence in Markovian Decision Processes	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Dr Jeremy McMahon
2004 - 2009	Co-Supervisor	BGP, Not As Easy As 1-2-3	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Ashley Flavel
2004 - 2012	Co-Supervisor	Throughout Management for CSMA/CA Networks IEEE 802 11e Wireless LAN	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Shafiqul Karim
2004 - 2015	Principal Supervisor	Operationalizing Resilience: Conceptual, Mathematical and Participatory Frameworks for Understanding, Measuring and Managing Resilience	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Dr Ariella Helfgott
2003 - 2007	Principal Supervisor	A Multidisciplinary Approach to Complex Systems Design	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Alex Ryan
2002 - 2007	Principal Supervisor	Lorikeet: An Efficient Multicast Protocol for the Distribution of Multimedia Streams	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Justin Viiret
1999 - 2003	Principal Supervisor	Characterization of Matrix-exponential Distributions	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Mr Mark Fackrell
1999 - 2003	Principal Supervisor	Analytic Modelling of Agent-Based Network Routing Algorithms	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Dr Andre Costa
1999 - 2005	Principal Supervisor	Network Reliability Estimation	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Kin-Ping Hui
1997 - 2002	Principal Supervisor	EASYWEB ACCESS PRESENTATION AND BROWSER CAPABILITIES TO SUPPORT SMALL SCREEN DEVICES	Master of Science in Mathematical and Computer Sciences	Master	Full Time	Ms Clare Saddler
1996 - 2002	Co-Supervisor	Some New Algorithms for QBDs and Block M/G/1 and GI/M/1 Markov Chains	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Ms Emma Hunt

Board Memberships

Date	Role	Board name	Institution name	Country
2014 - 2016	Member	Board	Australian Mathematical Science Institute	Australia
2008 - 2010	Member	Board	Science and Techology Australia (formerly Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies)	Australia

Committee Memberships

Date	Role	Committee	Institution	Country
2015 - ongoing	Member	Industry Advisory Committee	Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute	Australia
2015 - ongoing	Member	Council	Australian Mathematical Society	Australia
2012 - 2016	Member	Steering Committee	Mathematical Sciences Decadal Plan	Australia
2012 - 2016	Co-Chair	Sub-committee for Mathematics and statistics research in universities and related institutions,	Mathematical Sciences Decadal Plan	Australia
2011 - 2012	Member	ACARA Advisory Panel for Australian Curriculum: Mathematics	Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA)	Australia

Memberships

Date	Role	Membership	Country
1995 - ongoing	Member	Statisitical Society of Australia, Inc. (SSAI)	Australia
1993 - ongoing	Member	Australian Mathematical Society	Australia
1993 - ongoing	Member	Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ANZIAM)	Australia

Offices Held

Date	Office Name	Institution	Country
2012 - ongoing	Deputy Head of School	School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Adelaide	Australia
2011 - 2017	Director of Research, School of Mathematical Sciences	University of Adelaide	Australia

Email: nigel.bean@adelaide.edu.au