Biography

Ian Dryden’s main area of research is the development of statistical methodology in highly-structured data analysis, including shapes, images and functional data. He has published over 150 articles and two joint books: Statistical Shape Analysis (2016) and Object Oriented Data Analysis (2022).

Dr Dryden was awarded a Ph.D. in 1989 from the University of Leeds and has taught and carried out research at Florida International University, University of Nottingham, University of Leeds and University of Chicago, in addition to two periods at University of South Carolina (2009-2012, 2024-). He has been PI/Co-I of more than $20M in grants, and he is an elected fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.