12 Facts About Terry Speed

Terry Speed was born in Victor Harbor, in South Australia, and grew up in Melbourne.

Terry Speed then became professor in 1975 and head of department in 1982.

In 1984, Terry Speed became chief of the division of mathematics and statistics at CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.

Terry Speed started working full time at WEHI, where he was head of the Bioinformatics division until 31 August 2014, and has remained a laboratory head since then.

Terry Speed served on the Mathematical Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2009 and 2010.

Terry Speed has contributed to a wide range of subjects, including distributive lattices, ring theory, analysis of variance and bioinformatics, and in particular to the analysis of microarray data.

In 1989 Terry Speed was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.

Terry Speed was president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2004.

Terry Speed was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 2013.

Terry Speed is regarded internationally as THE expert on the analysis of microarray data.

Microarrays are now being replaced by short-read DNA sequencing, but Terry Speed continues to contribute new ideas for the new technology.

At other time in his career, Terry Speed has made seminal contributions to bioinformatics, statistical genetics, the analysis of designed experiments, graphical models and Bayes networks.