Biography:Telba Irony
Telba Zalkind Irony | |
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| Born | São Paulo |
| Nationality | Brazilian |
| Education | University of São Paulo |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics Operations research |
| Institutions | Food and Drug Administration |
| Thesis | Modeling, Information Extraction and Decision Making a Bayesian Approach to Some Engineering Problems (1989) |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard E. Barlow |
Telba Zalkind Irony is a Brazilian statistician, operations researcher, and proponent of Bayesian statistics. She works at the Food and Drug Administration, where she was formerly chief of biostatistics at the Office of Device Evaluation[1] and is now deputy directory of biostatistics and epidemiology at the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.[2]
Irony was born in São Paulo, and studied physics and statistics at the University of São Paulo, earning both a bachelor's degree and master's degree there.[3] She obtained her Ph.D. in industrial engineering and operations research in 1989 from the University of California, Berkeley with a dissertation Modeling, Information Extraction and Decision Making a Bayesian Approach to Some Engineering Problems[4] supervised by Richard E. Barlow.[3] Before joining the FDA, she was part of the operations research department at George Washington University.[3]
In 2010, she became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[5] In 2014, she won the Excellence in Analytical Science Award of the Food and Drug Administration "for spearheading innovative regulatory science studies, culminating in the release of novel guidance documents; supporting complex policy decision-making; and changing the submission review paradigm".[6]
References
- ↑ "Telba Irony, PhD", Speaker biography (37th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making), 2015, https://smdm.confex.com/smdm/2015mo/webprogram/Person18244.html, retrieved 2017-11-17
- ↑ "Telba Irony, FDA", Speaker biography (DIA 2017 Annual Meeting), 2017, https://dia2017annualmeeting.sched.com/speaker/telbazi, retrieved 2017-11-17
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Author profile from Irony, T.Z.; Barlow, R.E. (March 1993), "Curiosities in choosing system components: a Bayes analysis", IEEE Transactions on Reliability 42 (1): 128–131, doi:10.1109/24.210283
- ↑ "Modeling, Information Extraction and Decision Making a Bayesian Approach to Some Engineering Problems", Hathitrust Digital Library, Catalog entry, 1989, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100792008, retrieved 2017-11-17
- ↑ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, http://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows-list.aspx, retrieved 2017-11-15
- ↑ Excellence in Analytical Science 2009-Present, Food and Drug Administration, https://www.fda.gov/ScienceResearch/AboutScienceResearchatFDA/ucm541334.htm, retrieved 2017-11-22
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