Gabriel Durham's Homepage

Welcome to my homepage! I am currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Statistics at the University of Michigan. I have the fortune of working with the fantastic researchers in d3center ("d3c") within the Institute for Social Research, studying statistical concerns regarding adaptive interventions.

My primary focus at d3c has been my work with Danny Almirall on the design and analysis of sequentially randomized trials with complex clustering structures. Our past work has focused on longitudinal data analyses in clustered SMARTs, and I am currently interested in group formation in sequentially randomized trials. I'm also excited by several directions in which the field is moving, including analyses of multilevel adaptive interventions and sequentially randomized trial analyses under treatment effect interference. In a separate line of work, I have enjoyed digging into statistical issues arising when generative AI tools are integrated into intervention design (e.g., the use of large language models for sequential text interventions).

Before coming to Michigan, I analyzed social and economic policy at Abt Associates. While my statistical research has (thus far) mainly involved applications of causal inference in policy interventions, I am generally interested in statistical questions motivated by real world problems that can help real world people!

I will be joining Google in Summer 2026 as a Data Science Research Intern. I expect to graduate from Michigan in Summer 2027 and will be on the job market during the 2026-27 academic year.

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Non-Statistical Interests/"Fun" Facts

I am an all-around sports fan (and root for my hometown Atlanta teams); however, I most intensely follow college football. I went to the University of Georgia for my undergraduate studies and, as of 1/10/26, have been to 81 UGA games in-person (55 home games in Sanford Stadium, 13 true road games, 5 regular season neutral-site games, and 8 post-season games, with an overall winning percentage of 82%).
- I do root for Michigan as my "second team," and was fortunate to get to go and watch them in their semifinal matchup in the Rose Bowl during the second year of my PhD studies. They beat Alabama in OT en route to their first national championship in decades. It was the second Rose Bowl in history to go to overtime, with UGA winning the first such game in 2018.
I was a math major at UGA. While I enjoy the more direct applications of statistics, I have definitely maintained a lasting interest in number theory.
I lived in Washington, D.C. from 2019-2022. As the picture above suggests, the National Mall is one of my favorite places in the city/country - I walked/ran at least 100* laps around the National Mall during my time there.
- *This is likely a very conservative lower bound.

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