About me & Publications
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I enjoy statistics. And I enjoy consulting and coaching/teaching. Add a PhD in mathematical statistics from ETH Zürich and a vast experience in consulting and teaching, stir, and you get something that will bring your understanding of statistics and related subjects to a higher level.
I am very grateful and fortunate to be a student of Vipassana –an ancient meditation technique– as thought by SN Goenka. It found me in early autumn 2008. I see a parallel between mathematics and meditation. One understands mathematics –hence benefits from it– if and only if one does mathematics. Similarly, one understands and benefits from meditation if and only if one practices it. This passage from Susan & Paul in The Power of Small Changes inspires me.
“When you look back upon your life, what will be more important to you than [an empirical and rational] practice that leads towards peace within yourself?”
Academic background and professional experience
In 2008 I obtained my Ph.D. degree in mathematical statistics from Seminar for Statistics, Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich, with a dissertation on fast rates of convergence for adaptive classification (pattern recognition / machine learning / support vector machine). Then, I worked in Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) Indonesia as a senior lecturer in statistics and mathematics, and in Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam as a postdoc in Statistics for Life Sciences group with topic on neuronal morphology and connectivity. From June 2012 until July 2015, I worked as a Senior Research Associate in Management Information System group, Department of MTEC, ETH Zurich, providing data analysis (with R) and statistical consulting for postgraduates. From September 2016 to June 2017, I was employed by Wood Technology group, Department of Applied Wood Materials, EMPA, Dübendorf, providing survival analysis of experimental data in details of a European project and preparing reports and publications. Since 2018 I am a member of the Statistical Consulting Team of Department of Psychology and since 2019 I work as Biostatistician at Office for Animal Welfare & 3R and as Research Associate of Dept. of Mathematics at University of Zurich.
In the past fifteen years I have acted as a lecturer in Mathematics and Statistics at ITB, have taught classes and supervised graduates at ETH Zurich and University of Zurich.
Career Objective
To grow and to contribute my best eff ort in a stimulating environment where I can implement and enhance my skills, expertise and experience, particularly in statistics & its applications.
Professional Membership
Swiss Statistical Society (SSS)
Professional IDs
ORCID iD
Research Collection ETH Zurich
Certificates
Scientific Visualizations using R (ETHZ), September 2014.
Good Clinical Practice GCP Training (Swiss TPH, accredited by SwissMedic), August 2014.
Journal Publications
- Onorini D, Leonard CA, Phillips Campbell R, Prähauser B, Pesch T, Schoborg RV, Jerse AE, Tarigan B, Borel N. (2023) Neisseria gonorrhoeae Coinfection during Chlamydia muridarum Genital Latency Does Not Modulate Murine Vaginal Bacterial Shedding. Microbiol Spectr. 2023 Jun 15;11(3):e0450022.
- Andreas Christ, Adrian Aeschbacher, Fereshteh Rouholahnejad, Theodoros Samaras, Bernadetta Tarigan, Niels Kuster. (2021) Reflection Properties of the Human Skin From 40 to 110 GHz: A Confirmation Study. Bio Electro Magnetics.
- Deng. H, B. Tarigan, M. Grigore, J. Sutanto. (2015) Understanding the “Quality Motion” of Wikipedia Articles through Semantic Convergence Analysis. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 9191, 64-75, HCI (Human Computer Interaction) in Business.
- Caprio M., B. Tarigan, C.B. Worden, S. Wiemer, D.J. Wald. (2015) Ground Motion to Intensity Conversion Equations (GMICEs): A global relationship and evaluation of regional dependency. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA),
- McAssey MP, Bijma F, Tarigan B, van Pelt J, van Ooyen A, et al. (2014) A Morpho-Density Approach to Estimating Neural Connectivity. PLoS ONE 9(1): e86526. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0086526.
- van Ooyen A, Carnell A, de Ridder S, Tarigan B, Mansvelder HD, et al. (2014) Independently Outgrowing Neurons and Geometry-Based Synapse Formation Produce Networks with Realistic Synaptic Connectivity. PLoS ONE 9(1): e85858. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0085858.
- Bernadetta Tarigan and Sara van de Geer. (2008) A moment bound for multi-hinge classifiers. Journal of Machine Learning Research 9, 2171-2185.
- Bernadetta Tarigan and Sara van de Geer. (2006) Classifiers of support vector machine type with l-1 complexity regularization. Bernoulli 12, 1045-1076.
Conference Publications
- Yi Liu and Bernadetta Tarigan. (2016). Effects of Promotion Tweets on the Number of Followers in Micro-Blogging Site. International Center for Electronic Commerce (ICEC).
- Mihai Grigore, Bernadetta Tarigan, Juliana Sutanto and Chris Dellarocas. (2014) Understanding the Few that Matter in Online Social Production Communities: The Case of Wikipedia. Collective Intelligence, MIT, Boston, 10-12 June.
- Mihai Grigore, Bernadetta Tarigan and Juliana Sutanto. (2013) Effects of Stick-Togetherness on the Emergence of Collective Intelligence: A Longitudinal Analysis. Statistical Challenges in E-Commerce Research (SCECR), Lisbon, Portugal, 27-28 June.
- Mihai Calin, Bernadetta Tarigan, Juliana Sutanto. (2013) Understanding Web Portal Navigation with Markov Chains and Spreading Activation Networks. The 15th International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC), Turku, Finland, 13-15 August.