Alexander Fisher, Assistant Professor of the Practice

Contact Info:

214 Old Chemistry, Box 90251, Durham, NC 27708-0251

alexander.fisher@duke.edu

Personal Web Page:

http://athos00.github.io/

Education:

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2021

M.S., University of California, Los Angeles, 2018

B.S., Florida State University, 2016

Teaching (Fall 2026):

• STA 323L.001, Statistical Computing Synopsis

  Old chem 116, TuTh 08:30 AM-09:45 AM

• STA 323L.01L, Statistical Computing Synopsis

  Old chem 201, Tu 03:05 PM-04:20 PM

• STA 323L.02L, Statistical Computing Synopsis

  Old chem 201, Tu 04:40 PM-05:55 PM

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Caballero, WN; LaRosa, M; Fisher, AA; Tarokh, V. "Indiscriminate disruption of conditional inference on multivariate Gaussians." European Journal of Operational Research 327.1 (November, 2025): 191-202. [doi]  [abs]
2. Fisher, AA; Ji, X; Nishimura, A; Baele, G; Lemey, P; Suchard, MA. "Shrinkage-based Random Local Clocks with Scalable Inference.." Molecular biology and evolution 40.11 (November, 2023): msad242. [doi]  [abs]
3. Ji, X; Fisher, AA; Su, S; Thorne, JL; Potter, B; Lemey, P; Baele, G; Suchard, MA. "Scalable Bayesian Divergence Time Estimation With Ratio Transformations.." Systematic biology 72.5 (November, 2023): 1136-1153. [doi]  [abs]
4. Fisher, AA; Hassler, GW; Ji, X; Baele, G; Suchard, MA; Lemey, P. "Scalable Bayesian phylogenetics.." Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 377.1861 (October, 2022): 20210242. [doi]  [abs]
5. Fisher, AA; Ji, X; Zhang, Z; Lemey, P; Suchard, MA. "Relaxed Random Walks at Scale.." Systematic biology 70.2 (February, 2021): 258-267. [doi]  [abs]

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