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I am an Infectious Disease Epidemiologist and Modeller at CityU and a former member of MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Imperial College London. My research interest focuses on applying mathematical modelling, statistical analysis, and machine learning approaches to get a better understanding of infectious disease control and evolutionary mechanism. My research involved mathematical modelling of the infectious diseases, quantitative analysis of the interaction between host immune system and pathogens, and genetic/genomics studies of human disease susceptibility. Moreover, we have developed software tools to explain the complex dynamics of infectious diseases caused by rapid evolving viruses like influenza and database system that links genetic polymorphisms to disease susceptibility.
I received my PhD in Computational Biology & Bioinformatics at Duke University in 2013 with my dissertation on modelling the influenza viruses binding avidity change and it's impacts on disease transmission and antigenic drift. After receiving my PhD degree, I moved to London to start my first postdoctoral study at MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis,
Imperial College London on how herd immunity and age structures in a population could affect influenza outbreak. The goal was to develop a new tool to predict seasonal influenza incidences using population serology data to improve public health. In 2017, I moved back to Taiwan to study how to forecast Dengue incidence using extreme weather data at National Research Health Institutes. Here at City University of Hong Kong, my research focuses on mathematical modelling of infectious disease transmission and biological systems.
I received my PhD in Computational Biology & Bioinformatics at Duke University in 2013 with my dissertation on modelling the influenza viruses binding avidity change and it's impacts on disease transmission and antigenic drift. After receiving my PhD degree, I moved to London to start my first postdoctoral study at MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis,
Imperial College London on how herd immunity and age structures in a population could affect influenza outbreak. The goal was to develop a new tool to predict seasonal influenza incidences using population serology data to improve public health. In 2017, I moved back to Taiwan to study how to forecast Dengue incidence using extreme weather data at National Research Health Institutes. Here at City University of Hong Kong, my research focuses on mathematical modelling of infectious disease transmission and biological systems.
Current Postdoc
M. Pear Hossain
Current PhD Students
Jingbo Liang
Lesley Wei
Zhaojun Ding
Yuling Zhou
Previous Research Assistants
Miss Kathleen Sucipto (at Harvard University now)
Mr. Mesfin Tsegaye (Back to Ethiopia Public Health Institute)
M. Pear Hossain
Current PhD Students
Jingbo Liang
Lesley Wei
Zhaojun Ding
Yuling Zhou
Previous Research Assistants
Miss Kathleen Sucipto (at Harvard University now)
Mr. Mesfin Tsegaye (Back to Ethiopia Public Health Institute)