James M. Azam, PhD
Infectious Disease Modeller · Research Software Engineer · Educator
I am a Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, based at the Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases (CMMID), where I work with Dr. Kathleen O’Reilly on modelling the spatial spread and control of infectious diseases, including polio and measles.
Previously, I was a Research Software Engineer with the Epiverse-TRACE Initiative, developing and maintaining R packages such as epichains and EpiNow2 for reproducible analytics during epidemics.
Education
- 2022 PhD, Applied Mathematics · Stellenbosch University, South Africa
- 2018 MSc, Mathematics · Stellenbosch University, South Africa
- 2015 MSc, Mathematical Sciences · African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), Senegal
- 2013 BSc, Actuarial Science · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana