Gabriel Hassler is an associate statistician at RAND and a professor of policy analysis at the RAND School of Public Policy. He is broadly interested in computational Bayesian statistics and developing flexible yet highly structured statistical models that are scalable to big data. His subject-area experience includes childhood mental health, suicide, emergency risk communication, and well-being in the armed forces. He has particular expertise in studying infectious disease dynamics using phylogenetic and phylodynamic modeling. He has applied his methodological work to the study of relationships between viral genetics and clinical outcomes in HIV/AIDS, the evolutionary dynamics of the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 epidemic in North America, and the evolution of numerous other biological organisms over time. Hassler received his B.A. in anthropology and biology at Washington University in St. Louis and his Ph.D. in biomathematics at UCLA.
B.A. in anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis; Ph.D. in biomathematics, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)
