Topics

Pathogen Dynamics

I study how pathogens transmit, diversify, and emerge in wild animal populations by linking host traits, ecological communities, surveillance data, and quantitative models.

Animal Movement

I study how animals move across changing landscapes and climates, and how those movements connect populations and shape ecological and disease processes.

Global Changes

I investigate how climate and landscape change reshape host ecology and influence disease dynamics.

Ecology

I study how species traits, populations, and communities shape disease transmission dynamics across space and time.

Research Toolkit

I combine statistical and mechanistic models with movement, environmental, ecological, and disease-surveillance data to study infectious-disease dynamics.

Quantitative Analysis

Statistical modeling
Machine learning
Spatial analysis
High-performance computing

Mechanistic Modeling

Agent-based model
Compartment model
Network model

Data Integration

GPS telemetry
Bird observations
Remote sensing
Disease surveillance
Genomic data

Funding Projects

  1. 2023 NSFC General Program: Multiscale Study of the Effects of Species Functional Traits on Animal Infectious Disease Risk (Participate, granted, ¥540,000)
  2. 2022 NSFC Young Scientists Fund (C): Using multiplex network to identify spatial pattern of HPAI occurrence and its landscape driving mechanism (PI, granted, ¥200,000)
  3. 2013 Funding of China Scholarship Council funding: How does the migration of geese influence the dispersal and perpetuation of avian influenza viruses? (Ph.D. funding, granted, ¥550,000)
  4. 08/2022 - present US-China Workshop on Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID) [NSF award number: 1911955, postdoc researcher]
  5. 08/2022 - present PIPP Phase 1: International Center for Avian Influenza Pandemic Prediction and Prevention (PIPP Phase I) [NSF award number: 2200310, postdoc researcher]