Presenter: Jude Kong

Abstract:

In this talk, I will share the main focus of my research program:  the use of responsible, explainable, and local artificial intelligence to help governments and communities prepare and respond to emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. In particular, I will present some of the contributions that I have made. In the first part, I will show some of the models that I designed and analyzed for early response and community-based risk mitigation and control of developing epidemics using COVID-19 as a case study. I will present the results I obtained from the models. In the second part, I will talk about some of my ongoing work on designing an early warning framework for emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases.