Irwin Guttman joined the faculty of the University at Buffalo's Department of Statistics in 1993 as professor and chair of the department. Before coming to UB, he was a professor at the University of Toronto for more than 20 years. Guttman earned a BS in pure mathematics from McGill University in 1951, and both this MS (1953) and Ph.D. (1955) in statistics from the University of Toronto.