- Terry Speed
Professor Terence Paul Speed, or Terry Speed (born
14 March 1943 ), is an Australian statistician, known for his contributions tobioinformatics , and in particular to the analysis of microarrays data.He obtained a
PhD fromMonash University in 1968 and currently shares his time between the department of statistics of theUniversity of California, Berkeley (USA ) and theWalter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research , inMelbourne (Australia), where he is head of the Bioinformatics division.He was
president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2004. [ [http://www.imstat.org/officials/past_officials.html List of Past Executive Committee Members] , on the Web site of theInstitute of Mathematical Statistics .] In 2002, he received the Pitman medal. [ [http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1467-842X.00255 Pitman medal for 2002 awarded to Terry Speed] , Aust. N.Z. J. Stat 45(1), 2003. 1–4.]He was also an expert witness at the trial for the
O. J. Simpson murder case . [ [http://www.usatoday.com/news/index/nns30.htm Defense witness list for the O.J. Simpson civil trial] , published byUSA Today .] , as well as an expert witness in the Imanishi-Kari case, an affair of allegedscientific misconduct which involved biologistDavid Baltimore . [Daniel Kevles (1998), "The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character." New York: W.W. Norton & Co., Inc. 345–348.]References
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* [http://www.wehi.edu.au/facweb/indexresearch.php?id=63 Bioinformatics division] at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research.
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