Omar Saucedo

Department of Mathematics
460 McBryde Hall, Virginia Tech

Office: McBryde Room 450
Email: osaucedo@vt.edu

Greetings! My name is Omar Saucedo, and I'm an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics at Virginia Tech.

My area of research is Mathematical Biology with emphasis on modeling infectious diseases. In the past, I have worked with deterministic dynamical systems to address various epidemiological questions. These projects range from optimal control strategies on the 2009 H1N1 pandemic to investigating how poultry movement affects competition between strains of avian influenza. My current work focuses on determining how human movement affects the spread of vector-borne diseases, and in collaboration with a group in Woman Advancing Mathematical Biology (WAMB), defining characteristics for a superspreader.