Rafael Irizarry

Rafael Irizarry, PhD, received his Bachelor's degree in Mathematics in 1993 from the University of Puerto Rico, and went on to receive a PhD in Statistics in 1998 from the University of California, Berkeley. His thesis work was on Statistical Models for Music Sound Signals. He joined the faculty of the Johns Hopkins Department of Biostatistics in 1998, and was promoted to Professor in 2007. He is now Professor and Chair of the Department of Data Science at Dana-Farber, and a Professor of Biostatistics at Harvard School of Public Health.

Professor Irizarry's dedication to education is best demonstrated by the success of the numerous trainees he has mentored. He has also developed several HarvardX online courses on data analysis, which have been completed by thousands of students. These courses are divided into three series: Professional Certificate in Data Science, Data Analysis for the Life Sciences, and Genomics Data Analysis. He shares the material for these courses through textbooks that are freely available online and reproducible code through GitHub.