Max Lau

Assistant Professor
Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Department of Epidemiology
Max Lau

Bio

Max Lau, PhD
Dr. Max Lau is a faculty member in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Emory University, with secondary appointments in Epidemiology and Computer Science. His lab builds innovative models and novel algorithms that blend statistical inferencecomputational models, and ML/AI techniques to inform outbreak response, guide public health decisions, and drive scientific discovery. Dr. Lau also serves as a mentor to graduate students and postdoctoral researchers and teaches graduate-level courses in infectious disease modeling and machine learning.

Areas of Interest

  • Infectious Disease Dynamics
  • Machine Learning
  • Artificial Intelligence

Affiliations

Department of Computer Science (Secondary Appointment)