Our Team

Principal Investigators (PIs)

• Lauren Ancel Meyers

  Professor, The University of Texas at Austin

• Nicholas Reich

  Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Advisory Board

• Rick Bright

• Matt Biggerstaff

• Steve Adler

• Lourdes Zuniga

• Irene Eckstrand

• V.P. Nagraj

• Andy Brown

• Pritesh Gandhi

• Aurimar Ayala

• Larry Madoff

• Catherine Brown

Austin Public Health

• Desmar Walkes

  Co-Investigator

CAPTRS

• Francesca de Rosa

  Co-Investigator

CATRAC

• Douglas Havron

  Co-Investigator

• Jasmine Casteñeda de Morales

  Data Analyst

City of Austin

• Mark Escott

  Co-Investigator

City of El Paso Department of Public Health

• Hector Ocaranza

  Co-Investigator

CSTE

• Beth Daly

  Co-Investigator

• Rebekah Matthew

  Program Analyst

• Jordan Peart

  Infectious Disease Program Manager

Dallas County Health & Human Services

• Philip Huang

  Co-Investigator

Duke University

• Michael Pignone

  Co-Investigator

Houston Health Department

• Loren Hopkins

  Co-Investigator

• Kaavya Domakonda

  Senior Staff Analyst

• Kelsey Caton

JMP

• Russ Wolfinger

  Director of Scientific Discovery and Genomics, Distinguished Research Fellow

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

• Sebastian Funk

  Co-Investigator

Massachusetts Department of Public Health

• Meagan Burns

  Co-Investigator

• Andy Tibbs

  Senior Infectious Disease Epidemiologist

• Rosa Ergas

  Syndromic Surveillance Coordinator

Montgomery County, Texas

• Meghna Bhatt

  Epidemiology Division Manager

NET Health

• Ginger Points

  Co-Investigator

Northern Arizona University

• Spencer Fox

  Co-Investigator

Northwestern University

• David Morton

  Co-Investigator

• Guyi Chen

  Graduate Student Researcher

• Keyi Cheng

  Graduate Student Researcher

• Chenqi Jiang

  Graduate Student Researcher

Tarleton State University

• Jose Luis Herrera Diestra

  Assistant Professor

Texas Advanced Computing Center

• Kelly Gaither

  Co-Investigator

• Lisa Garbrecht

  Co-Investigator

• Joe Allen

  Research Associate

• Stephanie Baker

  Senior Evaluation Researcher

• Vera Belcher

  Project Coordinator

• Gladys Chen

  Advanced High-Performance Computer User Support

• Maytal Dahan

  Advanced Computing Interfaces Directorate

• Lena Duplechin Seymour

  Collaborative Support Specialist

• Vennela Gajjala

  Project Coordinator

• Feng Liu

  Research Associate

• Craig Jansen

  UX Researcher/Visualization Researcher

• Yiwen Yang

  Postdoctoral Fellow

• Emily Javan

  Intern

Texas Department of State Health Services

• Jennifer Shuford

  Commissioner

• Saroj Rai

• Varun Shetty

The University of Texas at Austin

• Michael Mackert

  Co-Investigator, Center For Health Communication

• Jewel Mullen

  Co-Investigator, Dell Medical School

• Susan Ptak

  Research Associate

• Farinaz Forouzannia

  Research Fellow

• Shraddha Bandekar

  Postdoctoral Fellow

• Oluwasegun Ibrahim

  Postdoctoral Fellow

• Nyall Jamieson

  Postdoctoral Fellow

• Dongah Kim

  Postdoctoral Fellow

• Bryce Holloway

  Graduate Research Assistant

• Haerin Kim

  Graduate Research Assistant

• Elizabeth Snyderman

  Graduate Research Assistant

• Laurie Alvarez

  Administrative Manager

• Katie Clement

  Administrative Manager

• Becky Wilson

  Managing Director

The University of Texas at El Paso

• Anass Bouchnita

  Co-Investigator

• Juan A. Garcia

  PhD Student

The University of Texas at Tyler

• Grace Dickey

  Project Manager

• Michelle Crum

  Division Chief

University of Colorado Boulder

• Daniel Larremore

  Co-Investigator

• Remy Pasco

  CFA Associate Director, Modeling Core

University of Georgia

• Bren Case

  Postdoctoral Associate

• Annalise Cramer

  Graduate Research Assistant

• Ehsan Suez

  Graduate Research Assistant

• Maya Salcedo

  Graduate Research Assistant

University of Massachusetts Amherst

• Melissa Kerr

  Project Manager

• Matt Cornell

  Software Engineer

• Anna Krystalli

  Software Engineer

• Li Shandross

  Data Analyst

• Maryclare Griffin

  Assistant Professor

• Isaac MacArthur

  Graduate Research Assistant

• Thomas Robacker

  Graduate Research Assistant

• Emily Tyszka

  Graduate Research Assistant

• Alvaro Castro Rivadeneira

  PhD Student

UT Health Houston

• Kaiming Bi

  Assistant Professor

• Boya Peng

  PhD Student

Yale University

• Alison Galvani

Past Collaborators

• Shuotao Diao

• Amna Elbadawi

• Zhian Kamvar

• Becky Sweger

• Ben Rogers

• Linda Pei

• Supna Sharma