Max Lau

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 inference, computational 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.