Prof. Tim Brown
(Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI))
Tim has been Director of the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI) since 2019 following several years as Professor of Statistical Data Science at the University of Melbourne.
Tim was Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at La Trobe University (2008-2013), Dean of the College of Science (2005-2007), Dean of the Faculty of Science (2002-2007) and Professor of Statistics at the Australian National University. Tim was President of the Australian Council of Deans of Science (2004-2006), President of the Statistical Society of Australia (1992-1994) and elected member of the International Statistical Institute.
Research Interests: Tim’s research interests have been in probability, especially probability approximations and stochastic processes, applied statistics and educational measurement (with applications to Year 12 moderation, scaling and interstate-transfer).