Guy P. Nason | |
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| Born | (1966-08-28)28 August 1966 (age 58) |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | University of Bath University of Cambridge |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | University of Bristol Imperial College London |
| Doctoral advisor | Robin Sibson |
Guy Philip Nason (born 28 August 1966)[1] is a British statistician, and professor of Statistics atImperial College London.
Nason received his BSc from theUniversity of Bath in 1988, a diploma in Mathematical Statistics from theUniversity of Cambridge in 1989, and a PhD in Statistics from theUniversity of Bath in 1992. He served as a Council member of theRoyal Statistical Society (2004–08), and was Vice-President (Academic Affairs) 2016–2020. He is a member of theEPSRC Strategic Advisory Team for Mathematics. He was anEPSRC Advanced Research Fellow during 2000–5 and was awarded theGuy Medal in bronze by theRoyal Statistical Society (RSS) in 2001.[2][3] He took over the post as head of mathematics at Bristol fromStephen Wiggins in 2008.
Nason is best known for his work in the area oftime series analysis, especiallywavelet approaches.[4][5][6]He has served as the Secretary of the RSS Research Section (2002–04), associate editor for the Journal of the RSS, Series B, Computational Statistics and Statistica Sinica and is currently an associate editor forBiometrika.[7]
