Rodrick Wallace is a research scientist in the Division of Epidemiology at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, associated with the Columbia University Department of Psychiatry. He has an undergraduate degree in mathematics and a PhD in physics from Columbia and completed post-doctoral training in the epidemiology of mental disorders at Rutgers. He has worked as a public interest lobbyist, conducting empirical studies of fire service deployment, and received an Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In addition to material on public health and public policy, he has authored peer reviewed studies modeling evolutionary process and heterodox economics, as well as quantitative analyses of institutional and machine cognition.