Terry Speed

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Terry Speed
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Born Terence Paul Speed
(1943-03-14) 14 March 1943 (age 81)[1]
Citizenship Australia
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Alma mater Monash University (PhD)
Thesis Some topics in the theory of distributive lattices (1968)
Doctoral advisor Peter D. Finch[2]
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  • Mary Sara McPeek
  • Jim Pitman
  • Bin Yu
  • Hongyu Zhao[2]
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Spouse Freda Elizabeth Pollard (m. 1964)[1]
Website
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Terence Paul "Terry" Speed (born 14 March 1943),[1] FAA FRS[3] is an Australian statistician. A Senior Principal Research Scientist at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research,[4][5][6] he is known for his contributions to the analysis of variance and bioinformatics, and in particular to the analysis of microarrays.

Early life and education

Speed obtained a Ph.D. from Monash University in 1968 with thesis titled Some topics in the theory of distributive lattices under the supervision of Peter D. Finch.[2][7]

Career

Speed is currently laboratory head in the Bioinformatics division at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, in Melbourne, and was head of the division until 31 August 2014. Previously, he was sharing his time between this position and the department of statistics of the University of California, Berkeley.

Speed was an expert witness at the trial for the O. J. Simpson murder case,[8] as well as an expert witness in the Imanishi-Kari case an affair of alleged scientific misconduct which involved biologist David Baltimore.[9]

Speed has supervised at least 67 research students.[2]

Awards and honours

Speed was president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2004.[10] In 2002, he received the Pitman medal.[11] In 2009 he was awarded a NHMRC Australia Fellowship.[12] On 30 October 2013, he received the Australian Prime Minister's Prize for Science.[13] Speed was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) of London in 2013. His nomination reads: <templatestyles src="Template:Blockquote/styles.css" />

Speed is regarded internationally as THE expert on the analysis of microarray data. This results partly from the sheer ingenuity of his work, and in part it is due to his commitment to working closely with biomedical scientists, enabling him to appreciate first-hand the biological challenges and the consequent requirements of new methodology. Microarrays are now being replaced by short-read DNA sequencing, but Speed continues to contribute new ideas for the new technology. At other time in his career, Speed has made seminal contributions to bioinformatics, statistical genetics, the analysis of designed experiments, graphical models and Bayes networks.[3]

Personal life

Speed married Freda Elizabeth Pollard in 1964.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (subscription required)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Terry Speed at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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  8. ↑ Defense witness list for the O.J. Simpson civil trial, published by USA Today.
  9. ↑ Daniel Kevles (1998), The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., Inc. 345–348.
  10. ↑ List of Past Executive Committee Members, on the Web site of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
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  12. ↑ Australia Fellowship for WEHI’s Professor Terry Speed, press release by WEHI on 29 Jan 2009.
  13. ↑ http://www.innovation.gov.au/science/InspiringAustralia/PrimeMinistersPrizesforScience/Recipients/2013PrizeRecipients/Pages/2013PrimeMinistersPrizeforScience.aspx
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