MARK LEWIS
Kennedy Chair in Mathematical Biology
University of Victoria
MMI Co-Director and Scientific Committee Member
Expertise/interest – Mathematical Ecology
Lewis Research Group
IVANA BOZIC
Associate Professor
University of Washington
Scientific Committee Member
Expertise/interest – Mathematical Oncology
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CAROLINE COLIJN
Professor & Canada 150 Research Chair
Simon Fraser University
Expertise/interest – Infectious disease, genomic epidemiology, evolution
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DANIEL COOMBS
Professor
University of British Columbia
Scientific Committee Member
Expertise/interest – Immune cell biophysics, immunity, infection and public health
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LAURA COWEN
Professor
University of Victoria
Expertise/interest – Ecological statistics with applications to both wildlife populations and human/disease populations
The Cowen Lab
ALAN HASTINGS
Distinguished Professor of Environmental Science and Policy
University of California, Davis
External Scientific Committee Member
Expertise/interest – Mathematical Biology; Population Biology and Ecology; Applied Dynamical Systems
Hastings Lab
JUXIN LIU
Professor
University of Saskatchewan
Expertise/interest – Measurement Error/Misclassification, Time Series Modeling, Infectious Disease Modeling, Network Analysis, and Statistical Machine Learning Methods
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ANOTIDA MADZVAMUSE
Professor & Canada Research Chair in Theoretical and Computational Biology
University of British Columbia
Expertise/interest – Theoretical and Computational Biology: Analysis and Numerical methods for PDEs in Biology
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JAMES MCVITTIE
Assistant Professor
University of Regina
Scientific Committee Member
Expertise/interest – Statistics/Biostatistics
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HONG QIAN
Professor
University of Washington
Expertise/interest – Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Physics
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ELI SHLIZERMAN
Associate Professor
University of Washington
Expertise/interest – Neuroscience, Modeling and Neural Networks
Shlizerman’s Research Group on Data-driven Dynamical Systems
CHRIS SOTEROS
Professor
University of Saskatchewan
Scientific Committee Member
Expertise/interest – Applied Combinatorics, Applied Probability, Polymer Modelling, Lattice Models, Statistical Mechanics, DNA topology
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STEPHANIE PORTET
Professor
University of Manitoba
MMI Co-Director and Scientific Committee Member
Expertise/interest – Cell Biology
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GERDA DE VRIES
Professor
University of Alberta
Expertise/interest – Mathematical Physiology; Modelling; Differential Equations; Teaching
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ERIC CYTRYNBAUM
Professor
University of British Columbia
Expertise/interest – Mathematical modelling of cell biology
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KHANH DAO DUC
Assistant Professor
University of British Columbia
Expertise/interest – Mathematical and computational biology, molecular and cell biology, structural biology, machine learning, bioinformatics, neuroscience, farming systems, electronic health records, Database management, software development, image and shape analysis, stochastic processes, biophysics
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LINGLONG KONG
Professor
University of Alberta
Expertise/interest – Statistics
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MARTIN KRKOSEK
Professor & Canada Research Chair in Marine Epidemiology
University of Toronto
Scientific Committee Member
Expertise/interest – Biology
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ARTUR LUCZAK
Professor
University of Lethbridge
Expertise/interest – Computational Neuroscience
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FAROUK NATHOO
Professor
University of Victoria
Expertise/interest – Biostatistics, Spatial Statistics, Bayesian Inference, Statistical Computation, Cancer Bioinformatics, Image Analysis
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GEOFFREY SCHIEBINGER
Assistant Professor
University of British Columbia
Expertise/interest – Single Cell Analysis, Optimal Transport
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MARC ROUSSEL
Professor
University of Lethbridge
Scientific Committee Member
Expertise/interest – Differential equations, stochastic processes, applications to biochemical systems
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REBECCA TYSON
Professor
University of British Columbia (Okanagan)
Scientific Committee Member
Expertise/interest – Mathematical biology and spatial ecology; mathematical models of ecological systems; the development and analysis of mathematical and computational models; cyclic predator-prey populations.
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ARNE MOOERS
Professor
Simon Fraser University
Expertise/interest – Biodiversity, Conservation Genetics
WARREN HARE
Professor
University of British Columbia-Okanagan
Expertise/interest – Mathematical optimization; nonconvex analysis; derivative-free optimization; bundle methods; applications in road design.
JULIEN ARINO
Professor
University of Manitoba
Expertise/interest – Mathematical epidemiology, mathematical population dynamics
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JAMES BENSON
Assistant Professor
University of Saskatchewan
Expertise/interest – Mathematical/Computational/Experimental Cell and Tissue Biophysics/Cryobiology
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W. JOHN BRAUN
Professor
University of British Columbia
Expertise/interest – Statistics, Stochastic Modelling, Wildfire
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ADRIANA DAWES
Associate Professor
The Ohio State University
External Scientific Committee Member
Expertise/interest – Mathematical Biology; Developmental Biology; Dynamical systems; Differential equations
Dawes Lab
LEAH EDELSTEIN-KESHET
Professor Emeritus
University of British Columbia
Expertise/interest – Mathematical cell biology, swarming, collective behaviour
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ERIC FOXALL
Assistant Professor
University of British Columbia (Okanagan)
Expertise/interest – Stochastic processes, population modelling
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CHRISTOPH HAUERT
Professor
University of British Columbia
Scientific Committee Member
Expertise/interest – Evolutionary Theory, Population Dynamics, Stochastic Processes, Social Dilemmas
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ROBERT LAIRD
Professor
University of Lethbridge
Expertise/interest – Evolutionary Theory
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JUNLING MA
Professor
University of Victoria
Expertise/interest – Infectious disease modeling, evolutionary biology, parameter estimation
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JAY NEWBY
Associate Professor
University of Alberta
Expertise/interest – Mathematical Biology, Cell Biology, Stochastic Processes
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ERIC SHEA-BROWN
Professor
University of Washington
Expertise/interest – Computational Neuroscience, Neural Networks, Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Network Dynamics
Neural Dynamics Lab
JOHN THOMPSON
Assistant Professor
University of British Columbia (Okanagan)
Expertise/interest – Nonparametric statistics, distance metric learning, clustering, change-point analysis. Applications to wildfire science, behavioural finance and climate finance.
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HAO WANG
Professor
University of Alberta
Scientific Committee Member
Expertise/interest – Differential Equations, Mathematical Ecology and Epidemiology, Environmental Science
ILMEE
BEN ASHBY
Associate Professor
Simon Fraser University
Expertise/interest – Evolution, ecology, epidemiology
Eco-Evo Theory Group
JAMES FENG
Professor
University of British Columbia
Expertise/interest – Modeling and computing of cell migration, cell-cell interactions, transport of nanoparticles in mucus, and organ-on-chip devices
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MARGHERITA MARIA FERRARI
Assistant Professor
University of Manitoba
Expertise/interest – Combinatorics, Discrete Mathematical Biology
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MIRANDA HOLMES-CERFON
Associate Professor
University of British Columbia
Expertise/interest – Applied Mathematics
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THOMAS HILLEN
Professor
University of Alberta
Expertise/interest – Math Biology, Cancer, Ecology, PDE
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KANG-LING LIAO
Assistant Professor
University of Manitoba
Expertise/interest – Cancer Immunotherapy Modeling
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AILENE MACPHERSON
Assistant Professor
Simon Fraser University
Scientific Committee Member
Expertise/interest – Theoretical Population Genetics and Phylogenetics
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HINA SHAHEEN
Assistant Professor
University of Manitoba
Expertise/interest – Areas in the fields of applied mathematics, statistics, data science, bioinformatics, data analysis, stochastic processes, and biostatistical sciences, viz., multiscale modelling of brain networks, hybrid and statistical modelling, data-driven brain networks, neuroscience, machine learning, computational statistics, high dimensional data analysis, and the analysis of dynamic processes in neurodegenerative disorders.
NeuroStats Lab
WEIRAN SUN
Associate Professor
Simon Fraser University
Expertise/interest -PDEs and their applications
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ALEXEY SHEVYAKOV
Professor
University of Saskatchewan
Expertise/interest – Nonlinear PDEs, symmetries, exact solutions, applications of PDEs to SIR-type and similar epidemiological and biological models
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PAULINE VAN DEN DRIESSCHE
Professor Emeritus
University of Victoria
External Scientific Committee Member
Expertise/interest – Math biology, linear algebra
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HUA SHEN
Assistant Professor
University of Calgary
Expertise/interest – Biostatistics – lifetime data analysis, measurement error and misclassification, missing data, latent data heterogeneity, variable selection, high dimensional data, biased sampling