He authored a number of publications in the field of applied mathematics and civil engineering, including his formulation of the Hasofer-Lind Reliability Index.
Prior to Hasofer's position at UNSW, he was a resident Fellow of the Australian National University in Canberra from 1955 to 1956.
Hasofer attended a course on the Jewish ritual laws of the slaughter of poultry (shechitat ofot) and made his services available to the community.
[2][16][17] Hasofer supported Dr Lee Spetner's stance on Neo-Darwinism which questioned the plausibility of the evolutionary theory of the appearance of beneficial mutations.
[19][20][21] While teaching at the Australian National University in Canberra, Hasofer researched notions of probability and random mechanisms discussed in Talmudic literature.
According to Hasofer, the attitude of Ancient Israel toward chance mechanism was diametrically opposed to that of neighboring nations.
[22][23][24][25] This subject was further researched by Nahum Rabinovitch who explored Talmudic probabilistic notions and chance mechanisms.