Sally Wood is a Professor of Statistic who holds a degree in Chemical Engineering (USyd) and an MBA (UWA). Sally spent the early part of her academic career in schools of mathematics at Northwestern University in Chicago and at UNSW. More recently Sally’s academic career has been spent in business schools. She has been on the faculty at the Australian Graduate School of Management, UNSW, Melbourne Business School at the University of Melbourne and now is a professor in the discipline of Business Analytics at the University of Sydney. Sally's research interests lie in the development of methods for the spectral analysis of time series, and the development of efficient algorithms for large datasets.