How artificial intelligence and big data are fighting COVID-19 in Africa

A collaboration led by York University researchers in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS), the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Health is using artificial intelligence (AI) to define public health policies and interventions to contain and manage the spread of COVID-19 in Africa. With a scarcity of COVID-19 vaccines in […]

York honours four distinguished professors

York bestowed titles of the highest order upon four of its long-serving faculty members at Spring Convocation this year. Historian Nicholas Rogers and mathematician Jianhong Wu were named distinguished research professors for sustained and outstanding scholarly, professional or artistic achievement largely accomplished at York.   Political scientist David Dewitt and education scholar Don Dippo were named University […]

Professor, Canada Research Chair, and mathematician Jianhong Wu wins 2010 Award of Merit

What do math and the flu epidemic have in common? Just ask York Department of Mathematics & Statistics Professor Jianhong Wu, who studies disease progression and infection using math. Wu, a Canada Research Chair in Industrial and Applied Mathematics, is leading two prominent Canadian teams on modelling and geo-stimulation of disease spread, and coordinates a […]