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Education: Ph.D. in Entomology and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Pennsylvania State University
Courses Taught: Introduction to Health Informatics HCIP 6380
Biography:
Dr. Shi Chen’s research interest include how individual, spatial, and temporal heterogeneity determine both environmentally-transmitted and directly-transmitted pathogen transmission dynamics. He also explores how the interaction among these sources of heterogeneity influence the pathogen transmission; multiple transmission pathways (e.g. airborne, waterborne, direct contact-based), and how environmental factors (e.g., temperature, photoperiod, etc) influence insect life history, population dynamics, and vector-borne disease dynamic.