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Alexander Fisher

Assistant Professor of the Practice of Statistical Science
Statistical Science
214 Old Chemistry, Box 90251, Durham, NC 27708-0251
214 Old Chemistry, Box 90251, Durham, NC 27708-0251

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Assistant Professor of the Practice of Statistical Science · 2021 - Present Statistical Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

In the News


Published April 9, 2025
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Recent Publications


Indiscriminate disruption of conditional inference on multivariate Gaussians

Journal Article European Journal of Operational Research · November 16, 2025 The multivariate Gaussian distribution underpins myriad operations-research, decision-analytic, and machine-learning models (e.g., Bayesian optimization, Gaussian influence diagrams, and variational autoencoders). However, despite recent advances in advers ... Full text Cite

Scalable Bayesian Divergence Time Estimation With Ratio Transformations.

Journal Article Systematic biology · November 2023 Divergence time estimation is crucial to provide temporal signals for dating biologically important events from species divergence to viral transmissions in space and time. With the advent of high-throughput sequencing, recent Bayesian phylogenetic studies ... Full text Cite
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Education, Training & Certifications


University of California, Los Angeles · 2021 Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles · 2018 M.S.
Florida State University · 2016 B.S.

External Links


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