British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Professor David Hand

Professor of Statistics, Imperial College London

Year Elected: 2003

His development of statistical methods of central interest to social scientists has been innovative and stimulating. After work in medicine and biometry, he moved on to study mixtures of distributions, bi-plots, repeated measurements and longitudinal analysis. More recently he has concerned himself with new fields of pattern recognition, artificial intelli-gence, data mining and 'intelligent' data analysis. His work also covers actuarial science and finance, especially credit rating.