My name is Navid Mohammad Mirzaei. I am a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Previously, I was a visiting assistant professor at UMass Amherst. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Delaware in 2020 under the supervision of Dr. Pak-wing Fok.
I am currently a member of the Yang Epi-Modeling Group, working on models to infer risk factors contributing to the recent increases in cancer onset.
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Email address:
nm3519 [at] cumc.columbia.edu
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Mathematical Biology, Epidemiology, Scientific Computation (especially Finite Element Methods), Partial Differential Equations, and Ordinary Differential Equations.
I am also interested in the mechanics of growing biological tissues triggered by diseases such as Atherosclerosis and Cancer.
I am proficient in Matlab, Python, FEniCS/DOLFIN, C/C++, GMSH, Paraview, and Mathematica. I am currently learning Physics Informed Neural Network (PINN), Julia, CompuCell3D, and Tellurium/SBML.