Participants

Shi Cen
PhD Student, Bioinformatics & Statistics
Research Interests: My research interests lie in statistical phylogenetics and phylodynamics, with a current focus on parameter inference in multi-type birth-death models using Bayesian methodologies.

Adira Cohen
PhD Student, Statistics
Research interests: Ecological and environmental modeling.

Carter Hall, PhD Student, Statistics
Research interests: Uncertainty quantification methods.

Louisa Ebby, PhD Student, Biomathematics
Research interests: state estimation and data-driven methods with applications to the environmental sciences and biology 

Alex Johnson, PhD Student, Biomathematics
Research Interests: My research interests lie in genetics and genomics, health disparities, and precision medicine, with a current focus on modeling differential equations to uncover optimal treatment strategies and explore complex biological systems for improved health outcomes.

Elliot Maceda, PhD Student, Statistics
Research Interests: I am interested in approaches to estimate parameters in complex chemical, environmental, and biological models. My recent work is in simulation-based inference, where data from model simulations are used to make Bayesian inferences on model parameters.

Connor McNeill, PhD Student, Statistics
Research interests: Statistical methodology, Bayesian statistics, medical and public health applications

Matthew Menon, Undergraduate, Statistics
Research Interests: To use statistical and mathematical modeling along with modern methods of big data computing utilizing artificial intelligence and machine learning to make a meaningful impact in areas related to climate change impact mitigation and informed environmental policy.

John Miller, Undergraduate, Mathematics
Research: Topological Data Analysis

Sean O’Connor, PhD Student, Statistics
Research interests: Machine learning, spatial statistics, environmental and ecological applications.

Shih-Ni Prim, PhD Student, Statistics
Research interests: My research interests include Bayesian inference and spatial statistics with climate and environmental applications and surrogate models for computer experiments.

Susan Rogowski, Postdoctoral Scholar, Mathematics
Research Interests: Parameter estimation, in particular developing novel parameter estimation algorithms for biological models.  I’m currently working on developing and estimating time-dependent parameters that correspond to human behavior for COVID-19 SIR-type models. 

Camden Toumbleston, Undergraduate, Mathematics
Research interests: Sensitivity analysis for linear inverse problems 

Alyssa Wenzel, PhD Student, Biomathematics
Research Interests: Machine Learning, Agent-Based Modeling, Topological Data Analysis

Nate Wiecha, PhD Student, Statistics
Research Interests: I am interested in spatial statistics and causal inference, and their intersection and use for epidemiology- and public health-related studies. I am also interested in machine learning and its usefulness for those applications.

Anqi Zhao, PhD Student, Statistics
Research Interests: Machine Learning, Causal Inference