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Irene Vrbik is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in Data Science, Mathematics, and Statistics at the University of British Columbia Okanagan’s Department of Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics. She is part of the Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science and serves as a graduate student supervisor. Her research focuses on mixture models, computational statistics, biostatistics, and applying machine learning to improve curriculum design in education.
Dr. Vrbik holds a PhD from the University of Guelph (supervised by Prof. Paul McNicholas) and postdoctoral training at McGill University (with Prof. David Stephens) and UBC Okanagan (under Prof. Jason Loeppky). Her work spans statistical methodologies for genetic data analysis, radiation response quantification in medical imaging, and spatio-temporal modeling of combustion dynamics.
She teaches courses in statistics and data science, emphasizing pedagogical innovation through technology integration. Her academic contributions include developing the ‘Fractionally-Supervised Classification’ framework for unifying supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised learning under a single statistical model.
