Interdisciplinary Lab for Mathematical Ecology & Epidemiology (ILMEE)

ILMEE works on several areas of mathematical biology as diverse as modeling

stoichiometry-based ecological interactions, microbiology, infectious diseases,

habitat destruction and biodiversity, risk assessment of oil sands pollution,

spatial memory and cognition. Mathematical and statistical approaches include

differential equations, data science, and machine learning.

Dr. Hao Wang is always keen to hear from well-qualified prospective graduate students,

postdocs, and visitors who want to work on the above areas. For quality postdocs,

please consider applying for a Banting, PIMS, NSERC or Killam fellowship and send me your CV.

 

  Current group members:

 

    Hao Wang (Howard), PI

    Email: hao8@ualberta.ca

 

   Juping Ji, Postdoc (PhD from University of New Brunswick)

   Email: juping@ualberta.ca

 

   Russell Milne, Postdoc (starting from 2022, PhD from University of Waterloo)

   Email: r2milne@uwaterloo.ca

 

   Pijush Panday, Postdoc (PhD from University of Calcutta)

   Email: ppanday@ualberta.ca

 

   Mozzamil Mohammed, Visiting Scholar (Jul-Aug) & Postdoc (starting from Sep 2022, PhD from University of Oldenburg)

   Email: mozzamilm@gmail.com

 

    Lin Wang, Visiting Assistant Professor (CSC Visiting Scholar Award)

    Email: lw15@ualberta.ca

 

   Yurij Salmaniw, PhD student (Josephine Mitchell Research Prize, 2¡ÁAlberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship,

   NSERC PGS D Scholarship, President's Doctoral Prize of Distinction, Entrance Scholarship, Pundit RD Sharma

   Memorial Graduate Award, Josephine Mitchell Scholarship, Eoin L. Whitney Scholarship, Graduate Student

   Teaching Award)

   Email: salmaniw@ualberta.ca

 

   Pablo Venegas Garcia, PhD student (CONACyT Scholarship)

   Email: venegasg@ualberta.ca

 

   Shohel Ahmed, PhD student (University of Alberta Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship)

   Email: shohel2@ualberta.ca

 

   Amit Chakraborty, PhD student (University of Alberta Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship)

   Email: akchakra@ualberta.ca

 

    Murshed Ahmed Ovi, PhD student (University of Alberta Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship)

    Email: murshedovi95@gmail.com

 

    Kai Wang, PhD student (NUAA Scholarship)

    Email: kai9@ualberta.ca

 

    Hua Zhang, PhD student (CSC Scholarship)

    Email: hua10@ualberta.ca

 

    Jianzhong Gao, PhD student (CSC Scholarship)

    Email: jianzho1@ualberta.ca

 

    Yulei Cheng, PhD student from Fall 2022 (MSc from University of Miami, USA)

    Email: yxc1288@miami.edu

 

    Abdul Wahid, PhD student from Fall 2022 (HEC Scholarship)

    Email: Abdul.Wahid1@buitms.edu.pk

 

    Chunxi Feng, PhD student (CSC Scholarship)

    Email: chunxi4@ualberta.ca

 

    Di Liu, PhD student (HIT Scholarship)

    Email: dliu11@ualberta.ca

 

    Dongxu Geng, PhD student (CSC Scholarship)

    Email: dgeng@ualberta.ca

 

    Pegah Tagheie Karaji, PhD student (Scholarship from the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology of Iran)

    Email: p.karaji@yahoo.com

 

   Xiaotian Hua, MSc student (Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship, Honors Bachelor¡¯s Degree at U of A)

   Email: xhua@ualberta.ca

 

   Shan Gao, MSc student

   Email: sgao9@ualberta.ca

 

   Tianxu Wang, MSc student

   Email: tianxu2@ualberta.ca

 

   Xiaoqi Xie, MSc student

   Email: xxie7@ualberta.ca

 

    Ting Wang, MDP master student

    Email: ting8@ualberta.ca

 

    Preet Parmar, MDP master student

    Email: preet@ualberta.ca

 

   Youssef Ait Haddou, MDP master student

   Email: aithaddo@ualberta.ca

 

   Derek Farkas, BSc student (Honors Program, A Murray Thomas Gibson Memorial Jason Lang Scholarship,

   A Faculty of Science Undergraduate Rutherford Scholarship)

   Email: dfarkas@ualberta.ca

 

    Jodie Price, BSc student (University of Exeter, MITACS Research Internship)

    Email: jcp221@exeter.ac.uk

 

    Rivaldo Cifuentes Monroy, BSc student (Universidad de los Andes, MITACS Research Internship)

    Email: r.cifuentes@uniandes.edu.co

 

 Past group members:

   Christopher Heggerud, PhD student (Faculty of Science Doctoral Dissertation Award 2021, Alberta Graduate

   Excellence Scholarship, NSERC CGSM Scholarship, Alberta Innovates - Graduate Student Scholarship)

   Email: cheggeru@ualberta.ca

   Current position: Postdoc under the supervision of Professor Alan Hastings at University of California - Davis

 

  Jude Kong, PhD student (Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral, Josephine Mitchell Scholarship,

  GS4 Josephine Mitchell Graduate Student Scholarship, PIMS Graduate Student Training Acceleration Award,

  Graduate Student Teaching Award, NSERC postdoctoral research fellow, Doctoral Dissertation Award)

  Email: jdkong@ualberta.ca

  Current position: was a postdoc under the supervision of Professor Simon Levin at Princeton University and DIMACS,

                              now a tenure-track Assistant Professor at York University in Canada

  Recent accomplishment: The leading PI for $1.25 M grant ¡°Predictive modeling and forecasting of the transmission

                              of COVID-19 in Africa using Artificial Intelligence¡± awarded by IDRC.

  Interview in Nature

  Current email: jdkong@yorku.ca

 

   Xiunan Wang, Postdoc (PhD from University of Memorial Newfoundland)

   Email: xiunan@ualberta.ca

   Current position: tenure-track Assistant Professor at University of Tennessee

 

   Jingjing Xu, Postdoc (PhD from University of Western Ontario)

   Email: ji9@ualberta.ca

          Current position: Postdoc at York University

 

   Kyeongah Nah, Postdoc (PhD from University of Szeged)

   Email: kyeongah@ualberta.ca

   Current position: Faculty Researcher at National Institute for Mathematical Science in Korea

 

  Qihua Huang, Postdoc (PhD from University of Louisiana at Lafayette)

  Email: qihua@ualberta.ca

  Current position: Professor at Southwest University in China

  Current email: qihua@swu.edu.cn

 

   Colleen Davies, MSc student (Entrance Scholarship, Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship-Master,

   Josephine Mitchell GS4 Scholarship, Graduate Student Teaching Award)

   Email: cmd2@ualberta.ca

 

 Chaochao Jin, MSc (Bachelor¡¯s Degree from University of Science and Technology of China)

 Email: chaochao@ualberta.ca

 Current position: Manager for Risk Models, Bank of Montreal Financial Group

   

  Silogini Thanarajah, PhD (PIMS IGTC Scholarship)

  Email: silogini9@gmail.com

  Current position: Instructor at the University of Alberta

 

   Zhenkun Wang, Joint PhD student

   Email: 1139178593@qq.com

  Current position: Postdoc at University of Science and Technology of China

 

 Xihui (Eric) Lin, MSc (JM Mitchell Graduate Scholarship, Bachelor¡¯s Degree from University of Science and Technology of China)

 Email: xilin@math.ualberta.ca

 Current position: Senior Researcher SDE, Microsoft Corporation

 

 William Davis, MSc (Alexander Graham Bell NSERC Scholarship)

 Email: wdavis@math.ualberta.ca

         Current position: DB Client Manager, Alight Solutions 

 

  Shao-ting Ge, long-term visiting faculty member

  Email: shaotingge@gmail.com

 

  Nolan Ames, summer research student (Rochester Institute of Technology, MITACS Research Internship)

  Email: nva4347@rit.edu

 

  Velizar Kirkow, summer research student (University of Exeter, MITACS Research Internship)

  Email: vk271@exeter.ac.uk

 

  Julian Pavon, MITACS intern student (from University of T¨¹bingen in Germany)

  Email: JulianPavon@gmx.de

 

  Xingshi Luo, CSC visiting student (from Beijing Institute of Technology in China)

  Email: xingshi@ualberta.ca

 

  Zexian Lu, CSC visiting student (from Nankai University), now a PhD student at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities

  Email: zexian@ualberta.ca

 

  Lijun Wang, CSC visiting student (from Zhejiang University)

  Email: lijun1@ualberta.ca

 

Shayenne Herder, Undergraduate student (NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award)

Email: shayenne@ualberta.ca

 

Laura Parshotam, A visiting student from The University of York, UK (May-August, 2011), now a graduate student at University College London (UCL)

Email: lep506@york.ac.uk

 

  Xiaoyan Deng, visiting scholar

  Email: 1000002412@ujs.edu.cn

 

  Lina Zhang, visiting scholar

  Email: lina-zhang@outlook.com

 

  Yian Yao, MITACS intern student, now a PhD student at Georgia Institute of Technology

  Email: yianyao1994@hotmail.com

  

   Xuantao Chen, IUSEP student, now a PhD student at Johns Hopkins University

  Email: nbhf9802@gmail.com

Research Interests

 

Biological Stoichiometry: Stoichiometric modelling, Harmful algal bloom, Biodiversity, Bifurcation analysis, Nonsmooth dynamical systems, Multiscale analysis, Transient dynamics, Stochastic process, Tipping

 

Ecotoxicology: Risk assessment of industrial toxicants, Sustainability of ecosystems, Multiscale modelling, Mechanistic modelling

 

Biodegradation: Measure and prediction of greenhouse gas emission, Risk assessment of oil sands pollution, Organic matter decomposition, Priming effect, Model validation

 

Species Invasion: Control of invasive species, Complex dynamics, Hybrid model

 

Cognitive Animal Movement: Modelling perception, learning and memory in animal movement, Partial differential equations with nonlocal integrals, Network modelling, Habitat destruction and preservation, Model derivation via first principles

 

Transmission of Infectious Diseases: Inverse method, Data science, Machine learning, Indirect transmission