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DIMMS Lab

Team

Members of the DIMMS Lab

Members of the DIMMS Lab seated around a restaurant table, smiling at the camera
Lab members over lunch, August 2026.

Our members range from undergraduate researchers to postdoctoral fellows, and study infectious disease with the tools of applied mathematics, statistics and machine learning.

Lab Director

Prof. Woldegebriel Assefa Woldegerima

Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University

Prof. Woldegerima leads the DIMMS Lab. He develops mathematical frameworks for understanding complex disease dynamics, drawing on mathematical biology, disease modelling and computational epidemiology.

  • Mathematical Biology
  • Disease Modelling
  • Computational Epidemiology
Full profile director@dimmslab.org

Postdoctoral researchers

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Dr. Qi Deng

Dr. Qi Deng

Postdoctoral Researcher

Sexually transmitted infections, theoretical immunology and agent-based models.
Dr. Andrew Omame

Dr. Andrew Omame

Postdoctoral Fellow

Nonlinear dynamical systems and models for public health policy.
Dr. Chigozie L. J. Ugwu

Dr. Chigozie Ugwu

Postdoctoral Fellow

Spatial epidemiology, geospatial analysis and infectious disease modelling.

PhD students

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Farah Al Hashimi

Farah Al Hashimi

PhD Candidate

Vaccination strategy and stochastic optimization in epidemiology.

Atiqa Naeem Alam Din

PhD Student

Neural networks and differential equation models for epidemiology.
Joe Tran

Joe Tran

PhD Student

Mathematical and computational approaches to epidemiology and public health.

Research associates

01
Nickson Golooba

Nickson Golooba

Research Associate

Disease-informed neural networks for forecasting transmission.

Master's students

02
Mehedi Hossain Rafi

Mehedi Hossain Rafi

MSc Student

Within-host malaria dynamics and competition between Plasmodium falciparum strains.

Shayne Litvak

MSc Student

Undergraduate researchers

03
Duc Anh Khue Bui

Khue Bui

Undergraduate Researcher

Parasite and immune system interactions, modelled with ODEs and PDEs.

Amanda Achiangia

Undergraduate Researcher

Jieyu Zheng

Jieyu Zheng

Undergraduate Researcher

Travelling waves and asymptotic analysis in reaction-diffusion epidemic models.

Alumni and former members

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Tue Dao

Tue Dao

Former MA Student

Models of immune system and dengue virus interactions.
Chu Chu

Chu Chu

Former Undergraduate Researcher

Algebraic number theory, PDEs and graph theory.
Manav Pundir

Manav Pundir

Former Undergraduate Researcher

Immunodynamics and mathematical modelling.