David Balding is Professor of Statistical Genetics at the University of Melbourne, and Director of Melbourne Integrative Genomics
MIG
, having previously been the founding senior appointment at the UCL Genetics Institute in London. He was educated at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

, UK, and is editor of the Handbook of Statistical Genetics. Balding is best known for the Balding–Nichols forensic DNA match probability formula, widely used around the world to evaluate weight of evidence for DNA profile evidence allowing for shared ancestry between the alleged and alternative contributors. His is also known for the Balding–Nichols model of allele frequencies in structured populations and as one of the founders of the

approximate Bayesian computation Approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) constitutes a class of computational methods rooted in Bayesian statistics that can be used to estimate the posterior distributions of model parameters. In all model-based statistical inference, the like ...

method of statistical inference. As Director of MIG, he leads a team developing statistical and computational methods for the analysis of genomics data—with applications in medicine, biology, agriculture and forensics. Balding was elected Fellow of the

Australian Academy of Science The Australian Academy of Science was founded in 1954 by a group of distinguished Australians, including Australian Fellows of the Royal Society of London. The first president was Sir Mark Oliphant. The academy is modelled after the Royal Soci ...

in 2019.David Balding
https://www.science.org.au/fellowship/fellows/professor-david-balding

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External links

David Balding's personal website

Citation and video marking election to the Academy of Sciences
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