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Yuke Wang

Assistant Research Professor
Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Hubert Department of Global Health
Yuke Wang
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Bio

My research interests span the areas of exposure assessment, wastewater surveillance, pathogen shedding kinetics, and infectious disease transmission. A common thread in my research is in understanding the human-environment interface with respect to infectious diseases. I design, develop, and evaluate statistical and mathematical models to support evidence-informed public health decision-making in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and the United States. These model frameworks were packaged as open-source tools and deployed across the globe. Over the last decade, I have been involved in projects funded by NIH, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome Trust, and the Rockefeller Foundation, on the aforementioned research areas for various infectious diseases. Half of these projects were in LMICs, where I have developed strong relationships with local partners. I enjoy working on team science (cross-disciplinary collaborations from diverse scientific fields) and contribute my analytical skills as a toolbox for real-world problems.

Areas of Interest

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Bayesian Analysis
  • Biostatistics
  • Disease Surveillance
  • Exposure Assessment
  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease Dynamics
  • Modeling

Education

  • PhD, Georgia State University
  • MSPH, Emory University
  • Bachelor, South China University of Technology

Affiliations

Current Activities:

Shedding Hub: The Shedding Hub collates data and statistical models for pathogen shedding in different human specimens, such as stool or sputum samples. Developing wastewater-based epidemiology into a quantitative, reliable epidemiological monitoring tool motivates the project.

Applications of AI: I am investigating the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) in public health research, with applications including literature search and review, survey development, chatbot integration into dashboards, and automated data curation and mining.

Sentinel Wastewater Surveillance: I am exploring the potential use of sentinel upstream wastewater surveillance and collecting human behavior information related to their toilet usage, mobility, and social contacts.

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