Assistant Professor
kesslerd@unc.edu | Dan Kessler‘s Website
Research Areas:statistical analysis of networks, post-selective inference, high-dimensional statistics, applications involving human neuroimaging, computational and cognitive neuroscience, high performance computing
Dan Kessler is an assistant professor in the School of Data Science and Society and has a joint appointment in the department of statistics and operations research in the College of Arts & Sciences. Kessler completed his Ph.D. in 2023 at the department of statistics at the University of Michigan where he was advised by Professor Liza Levina. He served as an NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Washington where he worked with Professor Daniela Witten. His research interests include the statistical analysis of networks, post-selective inference, high-dimensional statistics, applications involving human neuroimaging, computational and cognitive neuroscience and high performance computing.