Mr. TSEGAYE Mesfin Mengesha <mtsegaye2-c at my.cityu.edu.hk>
Mr. Mesfin received a bachelor’s degree in Animal Sciences and a Master’s degree in Microbiology from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, in 2007 and also a master’s degree in Aquatic Ecology from Bremen University, Germany, in 2009.
Before joining Dr. Yuan’s modelling group as PhD student, Mesfin worked at Ethiopian Public Health Institute in virology research team as a research associate. He was involved in laboratory surveillance activities of influenza, virological and serological investigation of outbreaks caused by arbo viruses such as dengue fever and yellow fever viruses, and also on sero prevalence studies of these viruses in Ethiopia.  
Currently, his research topics focus on modelling of dengue fever using climate variables and understanding virus evolution and phylogenetics of dengue viruses that caused outbreaks.

 

Miss SUCIPTO Kathleen  <ksucipto at cityu.edu.hk>
Kathleen was born in Jakarta, Indonesia. She obtained a BEng degree in Computer Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2016. For her undergraduate final year thesis, she collaborated with a Ph.D. student in devising a novel NFC-based computation offloading framework and had their paper accepted at IEEE INFOCOM in 2017. Prior to joining Dr. Yuan’s research team, Kathleen worked as a software engineer at a medical technology startup where she was involved in building cancer detection systems utilizing deep learning algorithms.
 
Kathleen joined Dr. Yuan’s team in 2018, bringing her software engineering experience to assist in enhancing the team’s work efficiency. She is also interested in studying various machine learning and statistical analysis techniques while developing mathematical models to represent infectious disease dynamics.