Simon Tavaré (born 1952)[4] is a British researcher who is the founding Director of the Herbert and Florence Irving Institute of Cancer Dynamics at Columbia University.

[5] Prior to joining Columbia, he was Director of the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Professor of Cancer Research at the Department of Oncology and Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) at the University of Cambridge.

[1] In 2018, Tavare was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society[14] and a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences.

In the June 2023 Graduation Ceremonies at University of St Andrews, Tavaré was awarded Doctor of Science (DSc),[16] in recognition of his major contribution to computational biology, statistics, and the study of cancer.

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