David J. Hand
Born in 1950
Science
David J. Hand is a renowned statistician and mathematician with extensive academic and professional experience.
He holds positions at Imperial College London and Winton Capital Management, and is a Fellow of the British Academy.
Hand has served as President of the Royal Statistical Society and sits on the UK Statistics Authority Board.
His research spans various fields, including classification, data mining, and anomaly detection.
Hand has published numerous scientific papers and books, with applications in psychology, physics, and finance.
His contributions to research and innovation earned him an OBE in 2013.
Hand's expertise in probability and statistics is evident in his work on The Improbability Principle.