Upcoming talks & conferences

Recent updates

  • I am honored to receive the NSF LEAPS-MPS award! (July 2023)

  • Had a wonderful time at the AIM workshop, learning a heap of the biology of malaria transmission! [Photo] (April 2023)

  • I am deeply grateful to receive the Mentoring Travel Grants from Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) to work with Dr. Lauren Childs on malaria modeling and control methods. (March 2023)

  • Our work on "Modeling Immunity to Malaria with an Age-Structured PDE Framework" has been accepted by SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics! [Link to arXiv] (January 2023)

  • Really grateful to have the opportunity to present my Wolbachia modeling work at The Fields Institute: Colloquium on Mathematics for Public Health. Event page & Recording (on YouTube)  (April 2022)

  • Our proposal "Developing methodologies for spatial and demographic heterogeneity in malaria immune dynamics" has been accepted for the 2022 Convergence Accelerator Team (CAT) award by the NSF-Simons Center for Multiscale Cell Fate Research (CMCF). (April 2022)

  • Finally got back to the in-person meeting at the SIAM TX-LA annual meeting at South Padre Island. (November 2021)

  • Super *grateful* to give an Applied Math Seminar talk on malaria modeling at my home institution (Tulane University), where I have spent nine years, and catch up with everyone! (October 2021)

  • Attended the AMS Mathematics Research Communities 2021 "Dynamics of Infectious Diseases", the one-year-long extended program made it even more engaging, highly recommend it for early-career mathematicians! "Early-career researchers gear up for virtual Mathematics Research Communities" (June 2021)

  • Our agent-based model for Chlamydia transmission is published in BMJ Open.  Super grateful for the collaboration with our public health team, whose endless support and patience make it possible to publish our results in a medical journal. Definitely a good starting point for 2021. (January 2021)

  • Started the tenure-track Assistant Professor position at the University of Texas at San Antonio!  (August 2020)

  • Organized the 2nd year of our "Mardi Gras" workshop on Modeling disease transmission with a focus on vector-borne diseases and the COVID-19 pandemic. (February 2020)

  • Visited the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and the School of Public Health at Georgia State University and had many engaging and instructive conversations with the faculty in both departments. A special shout-out to my wonderful hosts: Dr. Yi Jiang and Dr. Gerardo Chowell. (November 2019)

  • My model reduction paper on Wolbachia transmission in mosquitoes has been published in SIAP! (September 2019)

  • Check out our interview with Math Horizons on "Fighting an Epidemic with an Epidemic". (September 2019)

  • Visited Los Alamos National Lab (T-6) again over the summer, working on the mathematical modeling of Salmonella diseases in sub-Saharan Africa. (Host: Benjamin McMahon, Summer 2017, 2018, 2019)

  • Attended the grand CMPD5 conference at Ft. Lauderdale and presented the "Model Reduction" results. Sun, beach & Math! (May 2019)

  • Organized our "Mardi Gras" workshop on Modeling the Spread of Infectious Diseases in New Orleans, and had so many inspiring conversations with the extended academic family! (February 2019)

  • Our Wolbachia mosquito research was reported by Forbes Magazine. Check out the article here. (January 2019)

  • Visited the Math-Bio groups at Shanghai Normal University and Guangzhou University, and am super grateful to connect with the researchers in my home country. (November 2017)

  • Gave a seminar talk at Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and visited the REAL mosquito lab! (September 2017) [Event Flyer]

  • Poster presentation at 28 Annual Health Sciences Research Days, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA. Shared my recent research results with public health researchers and won the "Award for Excellence in Research and Presentation by a Postdoctoral Fellow" among nearly 200 presentations during the event. (February 2017)