AIMMLab—AI and Mathematical Modelling Lab @AimmLab

🎉 Proud moment for @AimmLab ! Our director, Prof. Jude Kong, has been elected to the Royal Society of Canada College 🌟 His visionary leadership has made AIMMLab a hub for impactful, community-driven science. We’re inspired daily by his humility, mentorship & global vision. 🚀

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📢 New preprint: Using LLMs for Avian Influenza surveillance & outbreak response. Gemini 1.5 Pro topped accuracy (91%). 🙏 Grateful to @NSERC_CRSNG making this work possible! Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

🚨 New in @ConversationCA: Battling deepfakes: How AI threatens democracy and what we can do about it From fake Biden robocalls to AI-generated endorsements, disinformation is here — and isn’t immune. Read more: tinyurl.com/2j4pcn77 #AI #Deepfakes #Democracy #Canada #Elections

🚨 Publication Alert 🚨 Our new paper in Science of the Total Environment presents an AI-driven framework to detect, quantify & localize methane emissions in 🇨🇦 with >92% accuracy. Grateful to @NSERC_CRSNG for making this work possible! 🙏 Link: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S00…

🌟 AIMMLab Weekly Meeting Updates – 08/15/2025 🌟 AIMMLab hosted Prof. Alison Hill (U of Toronto, Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)! She shared insights on infectious disease dynamics, from HIV/AIDS to COVID-19, and explored future collaborations with our team.

5️⃣ Fish & Fishing Communities Climate Adaptation Explore how fishing and climate change impact marine life with @AimmLab through @MitacsCanada, to study adaptive strategies and institutional incentives. Apply here 👉 mitacs.ca/our-programs/g…

4️⃣ AI & Data Science for Infectious Disease Research Through @MitacsCanada, @AimmLab invites undergraduates to help build AI-driven dashboards that forecast infectious diseases in real time using health and environmental data. Apply now 👉 mitacs.ca/our-programs/g…

3️⃣ Malaria Dynamics Modelling @AimmLab, through @MitacsCanada, invites undergraduate students to formulate a mathematical model integrating behavior, vaccination, and climate effects to understand malaria spread in Sub-Saharan Africa. Apply today 👉 mitacs.ca/our-programs/g…

2️⃣ Theoretical Solutions for Data Fusion Join @AimmLab through the Mitacs internship to develop novel tools that fuse diverse datasets, tackling bias and unlocking new insights for big data analysis. Apply here 👉 mitacs.ca/our-programs/g…

1️⃣ Machine Learning Sentiment & Emotion Analysis @AimmLab in conjuction with Mitacs, invites undergrads to explore AI models like ChatGPT & Gemini for analyzing public sentiment on COVID-19 vaccines across Canadian cities. Apply 👉 mitacs.ca/our-programs/g…

"🌟 @AimmLab Weekly Lab Update – 08/09/25 🌟 🎤 Thanks to Cynthia Luo for an insightful talk on public perceptions of Mpox via topic modeling & sentiment analysis of social media data. 🎉 Trivia hosted by Dr. Gelan Ayana Zewdie — trivia champ: Cynthia Luo!

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🎤 Huge shoutout to Dr. Gelan Ayana Zewdie of @AimmLab for his powerful keynote at #BE_STEMM2025! His talk on AI for community-based disease surveillance in low-resource settings was visionary and grounded in equity. Proud to have him in our lab! 💙

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🌟@AimmLab weekly meeting updates – 07/25/2025🌟 Trivia twist: Dr. Emma Zajdela won our Geography challenge! 🗺️🎉 Lavneet Singh presented on LLMs vs Transformer baselines in sentiment analysis—insights on performance, interpretability & efficiency. #AI #LLM #NLP #AIMMLab

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🔬Visitor Spotlight: Dr. @EmmaZajdela 🌍 @AimmLab is honored to host Dr. @EmmaZajdela, Postdoctoral Fellow from Princeton. Her work in app. math, social modeling, and synchronization theory bridges socio-ecological systems and digital innovation. Thank you for visiting us.

🔍 GDB fellowship! IHME’s fully funded 2-year GBD Fellowship trains recent grads in statistical modeling, geospatial analysis & health metrics research. 📍 Seattle | 🗓️ Apply by Aug 18, 2025 🔗 For more details lnkd.in/gnVi5K6m

📢 AI4PEP Exec. Director Prof. Jude Kong is speaking at #MaModAfrica2025 in Mombasa 🇰🇪! 🗣️ Talk: “Mathematical Epidemiology Training in Africa: State of the Art” Strengthening African-led modelling for #MalariaElimination 🦟 Let’s connect if you’re around!

Our Executive Director @dzevela is representing us at the #MaModAfrica Symposium 2025 at PrideInn Paradise Beach Resort & Spa, Mombasa 🇰🇪 — connecting with NMCPs, researchers & students to advance malaria modelling in Africa. Stop by to catch up & explore collab with us!

🌟 AIMMLab Weekly Update – 07/18/2025 🌟 Weiran Wang presented on malaria transmission and the advantages of impulsive vaccination strategies for mass immunization in resource-limited areas. 🦠📊 🎉 Dr. Abass Yazdinejad won the Paleontology & Evolution trivia. 🦖💻

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🚨 Spotlight Talk: Leveraging Social Data & AI for Disease Surveillance 📊🌍 Dr. Zahra Nia (Data Scientist, AIMMLab) presented to the Public Health Medicine Team at @cityoftoronto. She highlighted how ML pipelines enable continuous, automated surveillance of emerging outbreaks.

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@AimmLab Weekly Update – July 11, 2025 🎉 Trivia by Dr. Zahra Movahedi Nia 🎤 Talk by Dr. Andrew Omame. Dr. Omame presented an mpox model based on Canadian data (2022–2024), showing that pre-exposure vaccination in high-risk groups is essential to curb future outbreaks.

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