Rischan Mafrur

I am a very curious person, especially when it comes to matters related to data. I am passionate about data and analytics, and I also love teaching. I am currently an academic at Western Sydney University Indonesia in Surabaya, where I teach Data Science and Big Data Applications. I earned my PhD from The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia (my dissertation). My work sits at the intersection of financial data engineering, AI systems, and digital asset analytics, with active collaborations in Australia and Southeast Asia.

Before joining WSUI, he worked as a researcher at Macquarie University, Australia, collaborating with financial data specialists on Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and digital asset data pipelines. His work included extracting raw data from ASX, processing corporate actions and pricing data, and producing end-of-day datasets for academic and research use. He also contributed to the development of a crypto data warehouse that ingests DeFi data and transforms it into analysis-ready tables for academic research.

In addition, he has delivered sessions for an advanced data analytics upskilling program hosted by UNSW Sydney (Mentem), supporting professionals from Commonwealth Bank (CBA) and the NSW Government across diverse technical and non-technical backgrounds. He also works as a data scientist on a casual project basis, undertaking multiple client-requested projects across data analysis, automation, and applied analytics. Across these roles, much of his work has been carried out remotely while living a nomadic lifestyle with his family.

In my free time, I often participate in Kaggle data science competitions, and I am currently a Kaggle competition expert. I also frequently undertake casual projects related to data science (analysis, machine learning modeling, etc.). I worked as a back-end software engineer at Kartoza Pty Ltd from 2015 to 2017. If you need assistance with data-related problems, please don’t hesitate to send me an email.

Feel free to reach out to me if you need help related to data and crypto.