Rafael Irizarry
Dr. Irizarry received his bachelor’s in mathematics in 1993 from the University of Puerto Rico and his Ph.D. in statistics in 1998 from the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the faculty of the Department of Biostatistics in the Bloomberg School of Public Health in 1998 and was promoted to Professor in 2007. He is now Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and a Professor of Biostatistics at Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Irizarry has worked on the analysis and pre-processing of microarray, next-generation sequencing, and genomic data, and is currently interested translational work, developing diagnostic tools and discovering biomarkers. Dr. Irizarry is one of the founders of the Bioconductor Project, an open source and open development software project for the analysis of genomic data.
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