Mr Oisin Fitzgerald

Oisin is an early career researcher and Senior Data Scientist in the National Perinatal Epidemiology and Statistics Unit. He completed his PhD in health data science at the Centre for Big Data Research in Health (CBDRH) at UNSW Sydney in collaboration with eHealth NSW and the CSIRO in 2023. He has published research on topics including novel deep learning methods for forecasting of physiological time series, causal inference, risk prediction and the impact of hyperglycaemia in critically ill patients. He currently primarily works on research related to assisted reproductive technology, an area in which he has authored several public and government reports, contributed to the development of clinical registries, developed statistical methodologies and software for ART clinic quality control, and more recently worked on the development of the YourIVFSuccess website which won the Research Australia "Innovative Use of Data" award in 2023. As part of the YourIVFSuccess website he lead the development of the Estimator, a machine learning tool built using >500,000 ART cycles that informs users of their chance of a livebirth from ART, and he continues to lead research  investigating potential future improvements.