Dr Shila Ghazanfar is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow at the University of Sydney. She completed her undergraduate and PhD studies in statistics and statistical bioinformatics at The University of Sydney, before completing a Royal Society Newton International Fellowship at The University of Cambridge under the mentorship of Dr John Marioni in computational biology. Her interests are in developing statistical bioinformatic and biomedical data science approaches for the meaningful integration of complex and high dimensional single cell datasets, particularly across molecule-resolved spatial genomics technologies and single cell transcriptomics.