Professor Jianhong Wu is a University Distinguished Research Professor and Senior Canada Research Chair in industrial and applied mathematics at York University. He is also the NSERC Industrial Research Chair in vaccine mathematics, modelling, and manufacturing. His expertise includes dynamical systems and bifurcation theory that develops methodologies to identify long-term dynamic scenarios of an epidemiological system. He also pioneered a neural network architecture for pattern recognition in high dimensional data. He is also known for his efforts in developing reciprocal linkages and collaborations between public health and mathematics, globally. Since the 2003 SARS outbreak, Dr. Wu has led multiple national teams to develop mathematical technologies to address key public health issues relevant to emerging infectious diseases including SARS, pandemic influenza, Ebola, antimicrobial drug resistance, and Lyme disease.
Research keywords:
Global health; modelling; data analytics
Themes | Global Health & Humanitarianism |
Status | Active |
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Updates |
Opportunity – Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for AL/ML in Modelling and Prediction of Mpox and other (Re) emerging Zoonotic Threats | March 4, 2024
Reflections from the Humanitarian Response Network of Canada’s Triannual Meeting and Sphere Training | September 22, 2023 New Research Show Mpox Outbreak Lead to Stigma and Blame Toward 2SLGBTQIAP+ Community | May 31, 2023 Research Advancing Mpox Research Receives CIHR Funding | May 27, 2023 Dahdaleh Institute researchers contribute to York's achievements towards the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals | December 19, 2022 York University welcomes latest York Research Chair appointees | September 6, 2022 |
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