The High Dimensional and Functional Data Group is a research group based in the Department of Statistical Science at University College London. In the era of Big Data, the statistical community has been paying increasing attention to the development of new techniques and methods involving the analysis of complex data. Data expressed in high dimensions, or even infinite (as the case of functional data) are becoming more and more available due to major advances in data collection technology.

Nowadays, almost all the classical multivariate methodologies have been extended to a high dimensional or functional framework, such as: dimension reduction; semi-parametric and nonparametric regression; classification and clustering; distance and depth measures; regularization; analysis of dependent data, among others.

The high dimensional and functional data umbrella involves different statistical approaches such as Bayesian Inference and Machine Learning, and it spans many fields of research: economics, finance, genetics, environment, among others.