Hi there 👋
I'm an infectious disease researcher interested in real-time analysis, forecasting, semi-mechanistic modelling, and open source tool development. More on my research interests here.
NOW
- Working at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the Epiforecasts group;
⭐ Crafting extensions to epinowcast📦 ;🧻 Currently working on:
BIO
🏢 I'm currently working at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine📜 I did my PhD at the University of Bristol⚙️ I use daily:R,stan🏗️ I like to perform analysis using novel models on interesting data and generalise those approaches into software📦 s🌍 I'm mostly active within the R Community🌱 (Very slowly) Learning all about Julia and Turing.jl📘 Reading: Modeling Discrete Time-to-Event Data💬 Ping me about statistical modelling of infectious diseases, real-time analysis of infectious diseases, estimating transmission dynamics in real-time, and team science opportunities📫 Reach me: sam.abbott@lshtm.ac.uk