Dr Kim-Anh Lê Cao graduated from her PhD in 2008 at the Université de Toulouse, France. Soon after her graduation she moved to Australia and was appointed as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, then as a Research and Consultant Biostatistician at QFAB Bioinformatics between 2009 – 2013. Kim-Anh’s research directions veered towards biomedical problems when she moved to UQ Diamantina Institute in 2014 and was awarded an NHMRC Career Development Fellowship (CDF1). In 2017, she joined the University of Melbourne, as a Senior Lecturer at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, and Melbourne Integrative GenomicsShe will start her NHRMC CDF2 in 2019 focusing on microbiome studies. Dr Kim-Anh Lê Cao is an expert in multivariate statistical methods and develops novel methods for ‘omics data integration. Since 2009, her team has been working on developing the R toolkit mixOmics dedicated to the integrative analysis of `omics' data to help researchers mine and make sense of biological data (http://www.mixOmics.org). More information about Kim-Anh’s research group: http://lecao-lab.science.unimelb.edu.au/