Robert A CanalesRobert A. Canales is Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University. Prior to GW, Dr. Canales was a team scientist at the University of Arizon working across programs in environmental health, one health, applied mathematics, and statistics.He was also an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the New School, jointly with the Parsons School of Design and Eugene Lang College.Currently he aims to collaboratewith investigatorsand studentsinterested in data science, simulation, and the development of mechanistic models of health, risk, and environmental systems. Hismultidisciplinary work takes many forms but primarily focuses onpersonal and residential multimedia exposures, contaminant transport, indoor air quality, infectious disease transmission, and risk analysis. Methods include machine learning, probabilistic simulation, agent-based modeling, dynamic compartmental modeling, Monte Carlo simulation, and nonparametric techniques.Robert also enjoys instructing students across various programs in public health and mentoringstudents from diverse backgrounds that are motivated to learn about interdisciplinary science, applied statistics, and computational methods in environmental science and health. Read More Read Less