Joanna Dipnall is an applied statistician with particular interests in the areas of data mining and machine and deep learning techniques. She completed her Honours in Econometrics with Monash University and PhD with IMPACT SRC, School of Medicine, Deakin University where she blended machine learning with traditinal statistical technqiues to develop Risk Index for Depression (RID). Joanna works extensively with registry and linked medical data and teaches with the Monash Biostatistics team.

She has worked externally in the commercial world as an applied researcher and statistical consultant throughout her career and started a business who was one of the first in Australia to conduct research over the internet in 1999. Joanna has taught advanced statistical methods for many years at universities and privately with ACSPRI and NZSSN.