Faculty Mentor: Karim Khader
Title: Research Associate Professor
College: Medicine
School / Department: Medicine/Internal Medicine
Project description
Planning for future infectious disease outbreaks is critical for timely and appropriate public health response. In this work, we focus on anticipating new outbreaks and forecasting the future burden of outbreaks. Anomaly detection methods will be used to test for early detection of new infectious diseases and a number of different mathematical and statistical approaches will be used to forecast the burden of existing outbreaks.
Affiliations: Epidemiology, Internal Medicine, 3i, IDEAS Center, ForeSITE Center for Forecasting and Analytics
Student Role: The student will spend time reviewing the literature, reading papers, building and testing methods for anomaly detection or for forecasting using simulations.
Student Benefits: The student will gain research experience, writing up results to share with colleagues, and have the opportunity for disseminating the results of their work to conferences and/or writing manuscripts for publication.
Project Duration: There is no specific end to this work, expected 20-40 hours per week.
Opportunity Type: Research Assistant
Opportunity Location Type: In Person, Hybrid
Is this a paid opportunity: ToBeDetermined
Paid Description:
Volunteer, This is a paid research position, This is a work-study research position, Prepare a UROP proposal, Write an Honors Thesis or Senior Thesis, Earn independent study credit.
Minimum Requirements: Basic computer programming (R, Java, python, C++), data wrangling/processing, understanding of fundamental statistical concepts, modeling physical or biological systems.
How To Apply: Contact Karim Khader, u0065266@umail.utah.edu