Biomath PhD graduate receives the Publisher's Award from The Society of Systematic Biologists

Recent Biomathematics Ph.D. graduate Alexander Fisher (now an Assistant Professor at Duke) has received the Publisher's Award for Excellence in Systematic Research from The Society of Systematic Biologists. The award is presented to the two best papers based on student research published in Systematic Biology during the previous year.

The award is for the research article: 
Alexander A Fisher, University of California, Los Angeles
Alexander A Fisher, Xiang Ji, Zhenyu Zhang, Philippe Lemey, and Marc A Suchard. Relaxed Random Walks at Scale. Systematic Biology, March 2021. 70(2):258–267. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syaa056