Iris Ivy Gauran

I work on the statistics of high-stakes decisions: false discovery rate control, high-dimensional hypothesis testing, and Bayesian inference, built for genomics, imaging, and public health data.

I am currently looking for the next place to put that to work. Ideally somewhere the same rigor applies to decisions that matter, where the answer is not already known.

A record of the research is on the Research page. I write about statistics, and the rest of life, on the Blog. Get in touch if this is relevant to what you are building.

Gifts to a Future Self

A mathematician too weak for real work after brain surgery, dealing himself hand after hand of solitaire, and a why-ladder that keeps closing on the same two answers.

I Wear the Mask. It Does Not Wear Me.

A king and his identical twin, one crowned and one masked, and one fixed human need read into five different frameworks across a century.

Capped, Not Deleted

Two cohorts of shared ancestry, one that stayed and one that migrated, and a methylation signature that still comes back different.

T Always Finds A

A whimsical walk through DNA's structure, transcription, and translation, told through sprites and imps and checked against the real science at every step.

One Hundred Beats a Minute

A reality TV table flip, and the exact heart-rate threshold at which the part of the brain running self-presentation goes offline, camera or no camera.

Questions that Outlived the Answer

A look at how mental models work as both reasoning tools and a test for which favorite questions can accept an answer at all.

Twelve Questions, Invited in for Tea

A reflection on Feynman's practice of keeping a dozen favorite questions alive in the mind.