<p dir="ltr">Welcome Ayaz,</p>
<p dir="ltr">There are several interesting discussions taking place regarding estimation and assumptions. You can find these in our archives: <br>
<a href="https://simtk.org/pipermail/popmodwkgrpimag-news/">https://simtk.org/pipermail/popmodwkgrpimag-news/</a></p>
<p dir="ltr">What is your approach regarding parameter estimation? Do you rely on human decision making when selecting parameters, or do you strictly use numerical techniques after models structure is determined? </p>
<p dir="ltr">Also what kind of modeling assumptions do you usually take? </p>
<p dir="ltr">Your infectious disease modeling papers deal with validation. It would be interesting to learn about your modeling assumption process. </p>
<p dir="ltr"> Jacob<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 8, 2015 8:43 PM, "Hyder, Ayaz" <<a href="mailto:hyder.22@osu.edu">hyder.22@osu.edu</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Hello Everyone
<div>I am a new faculty member at the College of Public Health, Ohio State University. I stumbled across this group by accident and I’m very glad that I did. I’ve mentioned a little more about my research below and look forward to fruitful discussions
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<div>My research focuses on understanding the role of multiple determinants of human health (environment, social, biology) operating at multiple levels (individual, neighborhood, regional). I use mathematical and computational approaches (e.g. systems
science methods) to bring together theory, data and methods from multiple disciplines. In the past I’ve worked on a microsimulation model for esophageal cancer and cost-effectiveness analysis (manuscript under review), satellite-based air pollution exposure
assessment and birth outcomes (<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24240652" target="_blank">paper</a>), and predictive validation of agent-based models for influenza (<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23755236" target="_blank">paper 1</a>, <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25979284" target="_blank">paper
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Current areas of research include complex systems models to predict childhood asthma, the integration of agent-based models of residential segregation and coupled economic-disease models of poverty traps, predictive models of infant mortality, and agent-based
models of the food environment in Columbus, Ohio. I am also interested in philosophical discussions surrounding “Big Data” and what we mean by “model”.</div>
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<div>I am currently looking for funding opportunities to fund my research ideas and I am open to collaborations. I would be happy to receive resumes of potential graduate students and postdocs interested in working in my research group.</div>
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<div>Thanks</div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Futura">Ayaz Hyder, PhD<br>
<font color="#666666"><i>Assistant Professor, Division of Environmental Health Sciences</i></font></font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Futura"><font color="#666666"><i>Affiliated Faculty, Translational Data Analytics<br>
</i></font><font color="#b31700">College of Public Health, The Ohio State University</font><br>
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<div><font size="2" face="Futura">614-247-4936 | <a href="http://cph.osu.edu/people/ahyder" target="_blank">http://cph.osu.edu/people/ahyder</a></font></div>
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