Antony Richard Unwin (born 23 January 1950 in Belfast) is an academic statistician and software developer.
In 1982 he earned a PhD degree from Trinity College Dublin with a thesis entitled "Dual resource queueing models" under the supervision of Frederic Gordon Foster.
[citation needed] In 1993 Unwin transferred to Germany to the Institute for Mathematics of the University of Augsburg where he became the first professor for Computer-oriented Statistics and Data Analysis (Rechnerorientierte Statistik und Datenanalyse - ROSUDA), a new chair established with the support of the Volkswagen Foundation.
[citation needed] Unwin supervised fourteen PhD students in Dublin and Augsburg[1] among whom Heike Hofmann is known for her work on data visualization.
[citation needed] Unwin has worked with Andrew Gelman, who is the applied statistics director at Columbia University.