Stuart Barber

Dr Stuart Barber is a Senior Lecturer in Statistics at the School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, affiliated with the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences. His expertise spans wavelet methods, statistical bioinformatics, and applied statistics, with interdisciplinary applications in fields such as industrial tomography, spatial data analysis, and genomics.

His research focuses on wavelet-based statistical techniques, Bayesian inference, and computational methods. Recent applications include clustering, phylogenetics, anaesthesiology, and copy-number genomic data segmentation.

Research trends from his publications highlight advanced methodologies like Gaussian process modeling, Voronoi tessellations, and Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC), alongside bioinformatics-driven studies on protein alignment and structure analysis.

Responsibilities include serving as Head of the Department of Statistics. He actively supervises postgraduate researchers, including Fatih Gezer, and acknowledges support from the Simons Foundation. His work is associated with the Statistics research group, fostering collaborations and PhD opportunities in diverse statistical domains.