Professor Matt Wand is a Distinguished Professor of Statistics at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).

He has held faculty appointments at Harvard University, Rice University, Texas A&M University, the University of New South Wales, and the University of Wollongong. In 2008, Professor Wand was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. He has also been awarded two Australian Academy of Science honorific awards for statistical research: the Moran Medal in 1997 for outstanding research by scientists under the age of 40, and the Hannan Medal in 2013 for career research in statistical science. In 2013, he was awarded the University of Technology Sydney Chancellor's Medal for Exceptional Research. He received the 2013 Pitman Medal from the Statistical Society of Australia in recognition of outstanding achievement in, and contribution to, the discipline of Statistics. Professor Wand is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the Australian Mathematical Society.

Professor Wand has co-authored three books and more than 135 papers in statistics journals. He has around ten packages in the R language on the Comprehensive R Archive Network.

He has been a principal investigator on several major grants, including six Australian Research Council Discovery Projects and one Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence. During 2025-207 Professor Wand is a member of the Australian Research Council's College of Experts.

Professor Wand is chiefly interested in the development of statistical methodology for finding useful structure in large multivariate data sets. Currently, his specific interests include fast approximate statistical inference, message passing algorithms, statistical methods for streaming data, generalised linear mixed models, and semiparametric regression. He is also very interested in Statistical Computing and contributes to the field's main software repository — the Comprehensive R Archive Network. 

Further details about Professor Wand's research can be found on his personal web pages:  http://matt-p-wand.net