Bryan is a Professor of Economics at the University of California - Berkeley. He began his career at Cal in 2005 and, after spending two years at the Economics Department of New York University, returned in the Fall of 2011. He is an econometrician with research interests in network formation, the identification of peer group effects, panel data and missing data problems (including those related to causal inference). His research has appeared in a variety of journals, including Econometrica and the Review of Economic Studies.