# Laber Labs

> Laber Labs is a Duke-based statistics research lab led by Eric B. Laber. It develops methods for sequential decision making and offers statistical consulting, research partnerships, software, workshops and educational games, with applications in medicine, sports, infectious disease management and artificial intelligence.

- **Headquarters:** Durham, United States
- **Products:** Statistical consulting, Industry research partnerships, Precision medicine methodology, Donkey Darlings, Ataristicians
- **Notable:** Ataristicians won first place in the Arts Venture category at the 2017 Lulu eGames, alongside two third-place awards and Fan Favorite Video., A 2017 Madden experiment automated four Xbox/controller setups to collect simulated play data around the clock., Eric Laber received a James B. Duke Distinguished Professorship in 2023.

## Products & services

- **Statistical consulting** — Predictive modeling, recommendation and decision support, statistical auditing, forensic analyses, large-scale simulations and training.
- **Industry research partnerships** — Research contracts typically lasting one year or longer, producing papers, monographs, grant proposals or software.
- **Precision medicine methodology** — Methods to estimate and evaluate individualized treatment strategies from observational and randomized studies.
- **Donkey Darlings** — Small autonomous vehicle research focused on efficient reinforcement learning and limited-capability hardware.
- **Ataristicians** — Statistics and AI outreach through video games, mentoring, workshops and camps.
- **Doran’s Lab** — League of Legends analytics and statistics outreach by undergraduates and mentors.
- **Space Mice** — A scrolling game and reinforcement-learning test environment using tiled Bayesian Q-learning.
- **Mount Boredoom** — A route-planning game introducing dynamic programming.
- **2-Min Stats** — Short animated lessons on sampling, selection bias, causality and other statistical ideas.

## Achievements

- Ataristicians won first place in the Arts Venture category at the 2017 Lulu eGames, alongside two third-place awards and Fan Favorite Video.
- A 2017 Madden experiment automated four Xbox/controller setups to collect simulated play data around the clock.
- Eric Laber received a James B. Duke Distinguished Professorship in 2023.

## Latest updates

- **2026** — Duke’s faculty profile lists the NIH-supported Treating Adult ADHD Around the Clock SMART trial for 2026-2030; this is an academic grant, not a corporate financing round.
- **2025** — Duke lists Eric Laber as co-director of the Duke Computing Initiative from 2025.
- **2024-04** — The lab homepage features a GPT Davis Chat video dated April 2024.

## Links

- Website: https://laber-labs.com/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/LaberLabs
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/LaberLabs
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LaberLabs/

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Last updated: 2026-10-24