Rafael Irizarry (scientist)

Rafael Irizarry

Born	Rafael Angel Irizarry
Alma mater	University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras (BS) University of California, Berkeley (MA, PhD)
Known for	Bioconductor
Awards	COPSS Presidents' Award (2009) Benjamin Franklin Award (2017) ISCB Fellow (2020)
Scientific career
Fields	Statistics Biostatistics Data science Genomics Epigenetics
Thesis	Statistics and Music: Fitting a Local Harmonic Model to Musical Sound Signals (1998)
Doctoral advisor	David R. Brillinger

Website	rafalab.org

Rafael Irizarry is a professor of biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and professor of biostatistics and computational biology at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute. Irizarry is known as one of the founders of the Bioconductor project.