Telba Irony

{{short description|Brazilian statistician}}

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| alma_mater = University of California, Berkeley

| thesis_title = Modeling, Information Extraction and Decision Making a Bayesian Approach to Some Engineering Problems

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| doctoral_advisor = Richard E. Barlow

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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{{r|smdm15}} and is now deputy directory of biostatistics and epidemiology at the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.{{r|dia17}}

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.{{r|ib93}} 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{{r|diss}} supervised by Richard E. Barlow.{{r|ib93}} Before joining the FDA, she was part of the operations research department at George Washington University.{{r|ib93}}

In 2010, she became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.{{r|fasa}} 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".{{r|xas}}