Dr. Simon Tavaré is the Herbert and Florence Irving Director of the Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics (IICD) and a professor in the Departments of Statistics and Biological Sciences. His research focuses on computational cancer genomics, including the development of statistical and stochastic methods to understand tumor heterogeneity and cancer evolution.

Dr. Tavaré is a member of the Data Science Institute, a member of the Program for Mathematical Genomics, a Full Member of the Cancer Genomics and Epigenomics Program in the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, and a Senior Associate Member of the New York Genome Center.