AIMMLab—Artificial Intelligence and Mathematical Modelling Lab

🌍 Proud to highlight Zahra Movahedi Nia’s presentation through our AIMMLab x City of Toronto!

Her research uses AI & environmental modelling to find bird migration “hot & cold spots” where HPAI could spill into poultry & wildlife.

Huge thanks to Prof. Effie Gournis & Sylvia Ota for organizing.

🔬✨ Exciting News from AIMMLab! ✨🔬

Our Director, Prof. Jude Kong, has been selected as a delegate for the 2025 Science Meets Parliament program 🎉.

🙏 Special thanks to the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) for the nomination.

Learn more 👉 lnkd.in/gTaDdRMD

AIMMLab and partners are heading to Kigali! 🇷🇼

We’re excited to share that AIMMLab and our partners will be at the Africa HealthTech Summit 2025, happening October 13–15 in Kigali, Rwanda.

We look forward to engaging with leaders, innovators, and changemakers.

See you in Kigali!

🌟Big week at AimmLab!
We hosted Dr. Vivian Nfor & our Nobellum partners, inspiring conversations on cross-border collaborations and community-driven innovation.

🎤 Research highlights:
Weiran Wang – malaria control in Cameroon
Cynthia Luo – mpox outbreak prediction
Trivia by Sherif Shuaib

@aimmlab.bsky.social × City of Toronto | Climate-Health 🏙️🌡️🤖
Honoured to be hosted by the City of Toronto. Our team shared how AI + modelling turns climate evidence into action.
Grateful to Prof. Effie Gournis and keen to turn today’s dialogue into pilot collabs.

AimmLab × City of toronto: Climate & Health Briefing 🏙️🌡️🩺
Looking ahead to today’s session, hosting Prof. Jude Kong and the AIMMLab team to share our climate–health work.

Big thanks to the City & Sylvia Ota—excited for the discussion and future collaboration.

@aimmlab.bsky.social weekly Lab Meeting (Sept 19): 🎤 Nhat Chau—2nd-yr UofT DLSPH Epi & AIMMLab volunteer—shared “Environmental & Health Metrics for Toronto,” integrating env+health data to track climate impacts. 🧠 Trivia by Ebenezer Adeniyi; winner: Lavneet Sidhu. Next: City of Toronto, Mon Sept 22.

Analyzing Reddit Social Media Content in the United States Related to H5N1: Sentiment and Topic Modeling Study Background: The H5N1 avian influenza A virus represents a serious threat to both animal and human health, with the potential to escalate into a global pandemic. Effective monitoring of social media du...

🚨 Publication Alert! 🚨
Proud of our undergrad Oscar Pang’s work analyzing Reddit sentiment & topics on #H5N1 in the US (2022-24). Thanks to NSERC, UofT Work Study for support!
Read more 👉 www.jmir.org/2025/1/e70746

🚀 The Fall meeting series kicked off on a high note!
🎤Prof. Jonathan Shock wowed us with his talk on “Building an African AI Institute which Bridges Worlds.”

🎉 Prof. Alisson led a disease timeline trivia that had us all thinking! We’re honoured they shared their time with us.

🚨 Special Guest at @aimmlab.bsky.social ! 🚨
We’re thrilled to welcome Prof. Jonathan Shock as a Visiting Professor today! 🎉

He’ll share insights on “Building an African AI Institute which bridges worlds.”
We can’t wait for the conversations & collaborations ahead! 🙌 #AI #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. 🚀🌍

👉 lnkd.in/g9Z5vSax

📢 New preprint: Using LLMs for Avian Influenza surveillance & outbreak response. Gemini 1.5 Pro topped accuracy (91%). Grateful to NSERC

🙏 Grateful to NSERC_CRSNG making this work possible!
Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

🚨 Just published in The Conversation Canada:
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 ready.
Read here 👉https://tinyurl.com/2j4pcn77

🚨 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 for making this work possible! 🙏

Link: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

🌟 @aimmlab.bsky.social Lab Weekly Meeting Updates – 08/15/2025 🌟
@aimmodel.bsky.social 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.bsky.social through @mitacscanada.bsky.social, to study adaptive strategies and institutional incentives.

Apply here 👉 www.mitacs.ca/our-programs...

4️⃣ AI & Data Science for Infectious Disease Research
Through @mitacscanada.bsky.social, @aimmlab.bsky.social
invites undergraduates to help build AI-driven dashboards that forecast infectious diseases in real time using health and environmental data.

Apply now 👉 www.mitacs.ca/our-programs...

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

3️⃣ Malaria Dynamics Modelling
@aimmlab.bsky.social, through @mitacscanada.bsky.social,
invites undergraduate students to apply to model malaria dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Apply here 👉 www.mitacs.ca/our-programs...

2️⃣ Theoretical Solutions for Data Fusion
Join @aimmlab.bsky.social through the Mitacs internship to develop novel tools that fuse diverse datasets, tackling bias and unlocking new insights for big data analysis.

Apply here 👉 www.mitacs.ca/our-programs...

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

"🌟 @aimmlab.bsky.social 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!

🎤 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! 💙
#AI4Good #BlackExcellence #PublicHealth #AIMMLab

🌟@aimmlab.bsky.social 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

🔬Visitor Spotlight: Dr. Emma Zajdela 🌍

@aimmlab.bsky.social is honored to host Dr. Emma Zajdela Postdoctoral Fellow from Princeton. Her work in app. math, social modeling, and synchronization theory bridges socio-ecological systems and digital innovation.

👉 Learn more: lnkd.in/gPXyG6N5

🔍 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 www.healthdata.org/gbd-fellowship

Our Executive Director @dzevela.bsky.social 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. 🦖💻

Thanks to everyone who joined!

From selling peanuts to saving lives: Researcher uses AI to combat health misinformation across Africa At age 15 – a time when most teenagers are enjoying after-school activities and hanging out with their friends – Jude Kong was selling peanuts on the street in Cameroon. He grew up in a village called...

😊 Our Director, Prof. @dzevela.bsky.social , has been spotlighted by @UofTNews News!
The article traces his extraordinary journey—from growing up in Shiy, a small village in Cameroon to becoming a globally recognized leader in responsible AI for public health.
👉 www.utoronto.ca/news/selling...

🚨 Spotlight Talk: Leveraging Social Data & AI for Disease Surveillance 🧠📊🌍

Dr. Zahra Movahedi Nia (Data Scientist, AIMMLab) presented to the Public Health Medicine Team at City of Toronto.

She highlighted how ML pipelines enable continuous, automated surveillance of emerging outbreaks.