AIMMLab—AI and Mathematical Modelling Lab @AimmLab

📢 Speaker Spotlight | #CCGH2025 Excited to welcome Prof. Tobi Kollmann (@DalhousieU) & Dr. Jude Kong (@UofT) to plenary “Innovation for Equity: Whose Solutions, Whose Impact?” 📅 Oct 24–28 | Halifax + Online 👉 Register: events.myconferencesuite.com/canadian_confe… #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth

📢 Pleins feux sur les conférenciers | #CCGH2025 Nous sommes ravis d'accueillir le professeur Tobi Kollmann (@DalhousieU) et le Dr Jude Kong (@UofT) à la séance plénière « Innovation pour l'équité». 👉 Inscription : events.myconferencesuite.com/canadian_confe… #SantéMondiale #Canada

AIMMLab and partners are heading to Kigali! 🇷🇼 We’re excited to share that AIMMLab and our partners will be at the @AfricaHTSummit 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_e partners, inspiring chats on cross-border collabs, community-driven innovation. 🎤 Research highlights: Weiran Wang – malaria control in Cameroon Cynthia Luo – mpox outbreak prediction Trivia by Sherif Shuaib

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@AimmLab × @cityoftoronto| Climate-Health Discussion🏙️🌡️🤖 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.

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@AimmLab × @cityoftoronto: 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 collab.

@AimmLab 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.

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🚨 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 👉 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.

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🚨 Special Guest at @AimmLab ! 🚨 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. 🚀

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📢 New preprint: Using LLMs for Avian Influenza surveillance & outbreak response. Gemini 1.5 Pro topped accuracy (91%). 🙏 Grateful to @NSERC_CRSNG making this work possible! Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

🚨 New in @ConversationCA: 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 immune. Read more: tinyurl.com/2j4pcn77 #AI #Deepfakes #Democracy #Canada #Elections

🚨 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_CRSNG for making this work possible! 🙏 Link: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S00…

🌟 AIMMLab Weekly Meeting Updates – 08/15/2025 🌟 AIMMLab 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 through @MitacsCanada, to study adaptive strategies and institutional incentives. Apply here 👉 mitacs.ca/our-programs/g…

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

3️⃣ Malaria Dynamics Modelling @AimmLab, through @MitacsCanada, invites undergraduate students to formulate a mathematical model integrating behavior, vaccination, and climate effects to understand malaria spread in Sub-Saharan Africa. Apply today 👉 mitacs.ca/our-programs/g…

2️⃣ Theoretical Solutions for Data Fusion Join @AimmLab through the Mitacs internship to develop novel tools that fuse diverse datasets, tackling bias and unlocking new insights for big data analysis. Apply here 👉 mitacs.ca/our-programs/g…

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