I am currently a Provost’s Fellow (Guarini Dean’s Fellow) at Dartmouth College, primarily affiliated with the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, with an additional affiliation at the Irving Institute for Energy and Society. At Dartmouth, I am developing an independent interdisciplinary research program on computational health systems, integrating health data science, network science, and spatial analysis.​

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The central theme of my research is healthcare resilience under disruptions. Health systems face growing challenges from infectious disease outbreaks, pandemics, climate-related hazards, and other systemic disruptions. I investigate how healthcare systems anticipate, absorb, and adapt to these disruptions across three interconnected scales: population-level surveillance and responses, hospital-level operations, and patient-level continuity of care, with applications in rural health, cancer care, and pandemic preparedness. While grounded in healthcare, my research generates broader insights into the resilience of complex socio-technical systems.

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Methodologically, my research integrates large-scale, multimodal health and behavioral data—including electronic health records, administrative healthcare data, wastewater surveillance, and human mobility data—with computational network science, spatial analysis, machine learning, and AI-based modeling. These approaches connect early signals of population health threats with downstream changes in healthcare utilization, patient flow, and care delivery.

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My work has been published in leading interdisciplinary journals, including Nature Medicine (2024), Nature Cities (2025), and Nature Communications Physics (2021), and has been supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through a Research Accelerator Grant. I also serve as a reviewer for journals including BMC Public Health and Scientific Reports.

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Prior to joining Dartmouth, I served as a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at Clemson University (worked with Dr. Lior Rennert) and completed postdoctoral training in the Department of Computer Science and the Network Science and Technology Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (advised by Dr. Jianxi Gao). I received my Ph.D. in Data Science from the City University of Hong Kong (advised by Dr. Qingpeng Zhang).​​​​​

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Related links​

• Mobility Models and Infectious Disease Spread