Investigating how viruses transform human health and the fate of our planet.
Investigating how viruses transform human health and the fate of our planet.
Investigating how viruses transform human health and the fate of our planet.
Quan Nguyen, an undergraduate Weitz Group member since 2020, just graduated with a B.S. in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering. Quan has spent his time in the Group designing algorithms that estimate the risk scores of viral infections. This fall, Quan will be starting a PhD in Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania. “I want to […]
Dr. Jeremy Harris will be leaving the Weitz Group to start at the Rose Hulman College in August 2023. Dr. Harris accepted a position as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics. Congratulations Jeremy on this next step in your career.
Dr. Luo is an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte and head of the Microbial Ecology Lab. Dr. Luo’s research
On March 22nd, 2023, Shashwat Shivam successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Endogenous and Exogenous Control of Virus-Host Dynamics,’’ earning his Ph.D. in electrical & computer engineering. Congratulations, Shashwat! To learn more about Shashwat’s dissertation, read the abstract below. Optimization and control techniques are ubiquitous and used in diverse fields such as Mathematics, Engineering and Science. […]
localcovid19now: a new, updated software to process and map local Covid-19 case data
Dr. Luo is an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte and head of the Microbial Ecology Lab. Dr. Luo’s research
There has been a low uptake of the new (available since early September ’22) bivalent booster COVID-19 vaccine in the USA (~15% of the population as of 10th January 2023). In this work, we set to ask the reasons why people are, or are not, electing to take the bivalent booster. One key finding from analyzing survey data is that many people did not know about the new bivalent booster, or did not know they were eligible — suggesting more public health communication is necessary to promote uptake of the new vaccines. You can read more about it here.
This story was written by Bryant Wine, and was originally published by the School of Computational Science and Engineering. One lesson learned from the Covid-19 pandemic is that human behavior is a difficult variable to consider when predicting and preventing disease outbreaks. This challenge is magnified even more considering how different scientific fields conduct, interpret, and present […]
Quan (King) Nguyen, a chemical & biomolecular engineering undergraduate that has been in the Weitz Group since 2020, has recently been selected by the Student Awards Committee of the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering as the recipient of the Thomas L. Gossage International Enrichment Scholarship. Awarded to the top international students in the School of Chemical and […]
The group recently officially welcomed Tapan Goel, a new postdoctoral researcher. Tapan is a biophysicist broadly interested in how complex behaviors emerge in biological systems from relatively simple “inter-particle” interactions. To answer this question, Tapan uses tools from non-linear dynamics and statistical physics. In the Weitz Group, Tapan will be working to develop models of […]