Andrew Wood

Professor Andrew Wood is a faculty member at the Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies and Statistics, Australian National University. His research spans non-Euclidean statistics, theoretical statistics, computational methods, and applied statistics in sciences and medicine.

• Research Interests: Non-Euclidean statistics, directional statistics, statistical shape analysis, asymptotic theory, computational statistics, stochastic differential equations, and applications in science/medicine.
• Grants: Funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK), Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (UK), and Australian Research Council Discovery Projects.
• Editorial Roles: Former Joint Editor of Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B and current Associate Editor of Biometrika.

Research Trends: Recent publications focus on robust statistical methods for non-Euclidean data, computational approaches for complex distributions, principal component analysis for high-dimensional datasets, and geometric inference on manifolds. Applications include microbiome analysis, surface fractal dimension estimation, and spherical regression models.

Supervision & Collaboration: Registered as a supervisor at ANU, with collaborations across disciplines including molecular biology, environmental science, and computational mathematics.