Brian Blais

Brian Blais

Brian Blais is a Professor in the Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences at Bryant University. He received his B.A. in Physics from Wesleyan University studying the thermal-emission properties of insulators. He then proceeded to Brown University to obtain a PhD in Physics, where he studied under Nobel Laureate Dr. Leon Cooper on the topic of computational neuroscience. He teaches and publishes in such diverse areas as computational neuroscience, treatments for amblyopia, epidemic modeling, statistical inference, paleoclimate, and the statistics of ancient texts. His interests surround the quantification of the dynamics of systems and their uncertainty. He maintains his blog, bblais on the web, at http://bblais.github.io where he explores the intersection of science and society.

He has a particular interest in statistical inference, as it applies to dynamical modeling especially as it applies to every-day decisions.

Ph D, Brown University

Sc M, Brown University

BA, Wesleyan University