Publications

Modeling the effectiveness of Esperanza Window Traps as a complementary vector control strategy for achieving the community-wide elimination of Onchocerciasis,

S. Bilal, M. Smith, S. Sharma, W. Zaatour, K Newcomb, T. R Unnasch, and E. Michael (Frontiers. 2025).

Accelerating progress towards the 2030 neglected tropical diseases targets: how can quantitative modeling support programmatic decisions?

A. Vasconcelos, J. D King, C. Nunes-Alves, R. Anderson, D. Argaw, Maria-Gloria Basáñez, S. Bilal, D. J Blok, S. Blumberg, A. Borlase, O. J Brady, R. Browning, N. Chitnis, L. E Coffeng, E. H Crowley, Z. M Cucunubá, D. AT Cummings, C. N. Davis, E. L. Davis, M. Dixon, A. Dobson, L. Dyson, M. French, C. Fronterre, E. Giorgi, Ching-I Huang, S. Jain, A. James, S. H. Kim, K. Kura, A. Lucianez, M. Marks, P. S. Mbabazi, G. F Medley, E. Michael, A. Montresor, N. Mutono, T. S Mwangi, K. S Rock, Martha-Idalí Saboyá-Díaz, M. Sasanami, M. Schwehm, S. EF Spencer, A. Srivathsan, R. S Stawski, W. A Stolk, S. A Sutherland, Louis-Albert Tchuem Tchuenté, S. J De Vlas, M. Walker, S. J Brooker, T D. Hollingsworth, A. W Solomon, I. Socé Fall, Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2024 May 15;78(Supplement_2):S83-92.

CitySEIRCast: An Agent-Based City Digital Twin for Pandemic Analysis and Simulation,

S. Bilal, W. Zaatour, Y. Alonso Otano, A. Saha, K. Newcomb, S. Kim, J. Kim, R. Ginjala, D. Groen, E. Michael, Complex & Intelligent Systems 11, 83 (2024).

Evaluating elimination thresholds and stopping criteria for interventions against the vector-borne macroparasitic disease, lymphatic filariasis, using mathematical modeling,

S. Sharma, M.E. Smith, S. Bilal, and E. Michael, Nature Communications Biology 6, 225, (2023).

Combining predictive models with future change scenarios can produce credible forecasts of COVID-19 futures

K. Newcomb, S. Bilal, E. Michael, PLoS ONE 17 (11), e0277521, (2022).

A higher-dimensional generalization of the Lozi map: bifurcations and dynamics,

S. Bilal and R. Ramaswamy (Journal of Difference Equations and Applications. 2022 Feb 23:1-2).

 The relation between host competence and vector-feeding preference in a multi-host model: Chagas and Cutaneous Leishmaniasis RC. Rivera, S. Bilal, and E. Michael (Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering 17 (5), 5561-5583, (2020)).

 Complexity and critical thresholds in the dynamics of visceral leishmaniasis,

S. Bilal, R. Rivera, A. Mubayi, and E. Michael, (R. Soc. open sci.7200904200904, (2020)).

 Accelerating river blindness elimination by supplementing MDA with a vegetation “slash and clear” vector control strategy: a data-driven modeling analysis,

MM. Smith , S. Bilal , T. Lakwo , P. Habomugisha , E. Tukahebwa , E. Byamukama , M. Katabarwa , F. Richards , E. Cupp , T. Unnasch, and E. Michael (Sci Rep 9, 15274 (2019).

 Effects of complexity and seasonality on backward bifurcation in vector–host models,

S. Bilal and E. Michael R. Soc. open sci. 5: 171971. (2018).

 Effects of quasiperiodic forcing on epidemic models,

S. Bilal, B. K. Singh, A. Prasad, and E. Michael, Chaos, 26, 093115 (2016).

 Synchronization properties of coupled chaotic neurons: The role of random shared input

R. Kumar, S. Bilal and R. Ramaswamy, Chaos, 26, 063118 (2016).

Synchronization and Amplitude Death in Hypernetworks,

S. Bilal and R. Ramaswamy Phys. Rev. E 89, 062923 (2014).

 Quasiperiodically driven maps in the low dissipation limit,

S. Bilal and R. Ramaswamy. Phys. Rev. E 87, 034901 (2013).

The Generalized Time-delayed Hénon Map: Bifurcations and Dynamics,

S. Bilal and R. Ramaswamy. Int. J. Bifurcation Chaos 23, 1350045 (2013).