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.

The Seam Does Not Show Anymore

The 1935 feud between R.A. Fisher and Jerzy Neyman that never got the ending everyone expects from a broken friendship, and the truce it left behind, unsigned, still running inside every hypothesis test taught today.

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.