Rapid Response Research & Surveillance Branch Division of Infectious Disease Readiness & Innovation National Center for Emerging & Zoonotic Infectious DiseasesCenters for Disease Control and Prevention

Supporting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences– Research areas: modeling ecological systems using statistical physics and thermodynamics methods, metabolic scaling.– Publications: A review article published in Reviews of Modern Physics, other refereed publications.

Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Department of Biology– Research areas: infectious disease dynamics, evolution in influenza virus, innate and adaptive immunity. viral immune escape.– Software and data analysis: Developed a pipeline to simulate an epidemiological model of viral and immune co-evolution. Analyzed nucleotide sequences of flu virus and microarray data obtained from cell culture.– Publications: 10 refereed articles including 2 in Nature, and one each in… Show more Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Department of Biology– Research areas: infectious disease dynamics, evolution in influenza virus, innate and adaptive immunity. viral immune escape.– Software and data analysis: Developed a pipeline to simulate an epidemiological model of viral and immune co-evolution. Analyzed nucleotide sequences of flu virus and microarray data obtained from cell culture.– Publications: 10 refereed articles including 2 in Nature, and one each in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS Pathogens. Show less

Department of Physics– Research areas: statistical physics, thermodynamics, population dynamics, dynamics of colloidal suspensions, theoretical ecology, forest biodiversity, self-organization, spatial scaling, stochastic dynamics, Markov processes, bacterial diversity in soil.– Software and data analysis: Developed a parallel algorithm for event-driven dynamics of hard spheres as well as visualization tools. Developed stochastic simulation code to study phase transitions in… Show more Department of Physics– Research areas: statistical physics, thermodynamics, population dynamics, dynamics of colloidal suspensions, theoretical ecology, forest biodiversity, self-organization, spatial scaling, stochastic dynamics, Markov processes, bacterial diversity in soil.– Software and data analysis: Developed a parallel algorithm for event-driven dynamics of hard spheres as well as visualization tools. Developed stochastic simulation code to study phase transitions in statistical systems. Performed statistical analysis and modeling of ecological data from tropical forests.– Publications: 6 refereed articles including 2 in Nature, and one each in Science and Physical Review Letters. Show less

– Research areas: hydroacoustics, ultrasound, cavitation, sound propagation in gas-liquid mixtures, acoustical analog of a laser.– Software and data analysis: Performed numerical simulations of sound propagation in gas-liquid mixtures.– Publications: 5 refereed articles in leading USA, European, and Russian journals (including The Journalof the Acoustical Society of America and Physical Review E).