Mark E. Irwin

Mark Irwin

Mark E. Irwin

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I was born in San Jose, California and grew up in Vancouver, Canada. I received a B.Sc. in Mathematics in 1986 and an M.Sc. in Statistics in 1989 from the University of British Columbia. In 1995, I received a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Chicago under the advising of Dr. Augustine Kong.

I joined the Department of Statistics at The Ohio State University in 1993, initially as an Instructor and then becoming an Assistant Professor in 1995. From 2000 to 2003, I was the Department's Statistical Computing Scientist. In September 2003, I joined the Harvard Statistics Department as a Lecturer in Statistics.

My research interests include statistical genetics, focusing on problems in gene mapping, space-time hierarchical modeling, and statistical computing, dealing mainly with Monte Carlo methods. Recent projects have dealt with modeling daily ozone data in the Lake Michigan region, class discovery and classification of tumor samples using gene expression data, the effects of interference in haplotype reconstruction, examining changes in military defensive strategies through point process models, and spatial-temporal nonlinear filtering in Command and Control.