The MOCOS Team
The MOCOS Group (MOdelling COronavirus Spread) is an international, interdisciplinary team of scientists involved in modelling the COVID-19 epidemic.
prof. Anna Gambin
MOCOS PolandProfessor Anna Gambin is deputy dean for research and international cooperation at the Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Mechanics at the University of Warsaw (term 2016-2020). In her scientific work she deals with mathematical modeling of molecular processes and efficient algorithms for the analysis of biomedical data. Recently, her research is focused on computational methods supporting medical diagnostics based on genomic and proteomic data.
dr inż. Agata Migalska
MOCOS PolandDefended her doctorate in computer science at the Faculty of Electronics of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology. Professionally, she deals with the analysis of unordered data using statistical methods and artificial intelligence techniques.
dr hab. Barbara Adamik
MOCOS PolandAssistant Professor at the Wroclaw Medical University. Her research areas include infectious diseases, sepsis, and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
dr hab. Barbara Pabjan
MOCOS PolandSociologist, works at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Wroclaw. She is involved in the study of social reactions to the coronavirus epidemic (differentiated perception of the threat level, application of preventive measures).
mgr Dubhe Joy S. Carmen
MOCOS PhillipinesA Senior Science Research Specialist of the Department of Science and Technology, deployed at MSU – Iligan Institute of Technology, Philippines and a member of the Applied Mathematics and Statistics Research Group of the Premier Research Institute of Science and Mathematics (PRISM). Her research interests include item response theory and bioinformatics.
prof. Ewaryst Rafajlowicz
MOCOS PolandCorrespondent member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Works in the Department of Automation, Mechatronics and Control Systems, Faculty of Electronics, Wrocław University of Science Technology. He deals with processes with time and space dynamics and teaching control based on image sequences.
dr hab. Ewa Szczurek
MOCOS PolandAssistant professor at the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics at the University of Warsaw. Her research focus is at the border between computer science, machine learning and molecular biology.
prof. Ewa Skubalska-Rafajlowicz
MOCOS PolandWorks in the Department of Technical Computer Science, Faculty of Electronics, Wrocław University of Science Technology. Her field of study includes analysis, processing and detection of changes in large datasets and images and learning neural networks.
mgr Gabriel C. Engcong
MOCOS PhillipinesA faculty member of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics in MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT) and a member of the Applied Mathematics and Statistics Research Group of the Premier Research Institute of Science and Mathematics (PRISM). His research interests include machine learning and time series analysis.
mgr John Alfred M. Liwanag
MOCOS PhillipinesA faculty member in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT). He is a member of the Applied Mathematics and Statistics Research Group of the Premier Research Institute of Science and Mathematics (PRISM) of MSU-IIT. His research interests are spatial statistics and experimental designs.
prof. Jan Pablo Burgard
MOCOS GermanyJan Pablo Burgard is associate professor at the Trier University in the field of statistics, econometrics and data science. His main research interests are methods for regional estimation, the handling of errors in variables in statistical models, and the development of tailor-made quantitative solutions for interdisciplinary empirical problems.
mgr Johniel Babiera
MOCOS PhillipinesA faculty member in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT). He is a member of the Applied Mathematics and Statistics Research Group of the Premier Research Institute of Science and Mathematics (PRISM) of MSU-IIT. His research interests are statistical analysis and modelling, natural language processing and machine learning.
prof. Jinky B. Bornales
MOCOS PhillipinesVice Chancellor for Research and Extension and faculty member of the Department of Physics of the MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology, Philippines. She is a member of the Theoretical Science Research Group of the Premier Research Institute of Science and Mathematics (PRISM) of MSU-IIT. Her research interests include white noise functional integral and polymers modeled by fractional Brownian Motion.
mgr Jennifer Joyce M. Montemayor
MOCOS PhillipinesA faculty member of the Department of Computer Science in MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT). She is a member of the Applied Mathematics and Statistics Research Group of the Premier Research Institute of Science and Mathematics (PRISM) of MSU-IIT. Her research interests include Evolutionary Computation, Feature Selection, and Machine Learning.
mgr inż. Marcin Bodych
MOCOS PolandGraduate of the faculties of Automation and Robotics and Mathematics at the Wrocław University of Science and Technology. Professionally involved in machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques in the context of image and text analysis. He is scientifically working on his doctoral dissertation entitled Agent based models for language evolution under the supervision of Professor Tyll Krüger.
dr inż. Marek Bawiec
MOCOS PolandWorks at the Department of Technical Computer Science at the Wrocław University of Science and Technology. In addition to his involvement in the MOCOS group, he is involved in day-to-day work on technologies enabling the so-called Internet of Things and, among other things, the development of the SimBad cancer cell proliferation simulator.
dr Michał Startek
MOCOS PolandAssistant professor at the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics at the University of Warsaw. His current research interests are high-performance algorithmics in life sciences, computational aspects of mass spectrometry, and algorithmic aspects of stochastic simulations. Past projects include development of automatic, AI-based organic synthesis pathway predictor, mathematical and agent-based modelling of spread of mobile genetic elements in populations, and bioinformatic analyses of human genome.
prof. Przemysław Biecek
MOCOS PolandAssociate professor at Warsaw University of Technology and University of Warsaw. Interested in predictive modeling of large and complex data, data visualization and model interpretability. R enthusiast and main developer of DrWhy.AI tools and methods for Explanatory Model Analysis..
dr inż. Piotr Szymański
MOCOS PolandAssistant Professor at the Department of Computational Intelligence at the Wrocław University of Science and Technology. Professionally involved in data analysis, statistical reasoning, machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques. He is an alumni of the Top 500 Innovators program at Stanford University.
dr Piotr Sobczyk
MOCOS PolandHolds a PhD in Mathematics from Wrocław University of Science and Technology. His thesis was on dimensionality reduction. Professionally, working as a data scientist, he deals with data analysis, modelling and visualization.
dr inż. Radosław Idzikowski
MOCOS PolandAssistant Professor in the Department of Control Systems and Mechatronics at the Wrocław University of Science and Technology. In his scientific work he deals discrete optimization problems, especially task scheduling.
dr Randy L. Caga-anan
MOCOS PhillipinesA faculty member and currently the chairman of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of the MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology, Philippines. A member of the Complex Systems Group of the university who started out in pure mathematics and now doing work with mathematically modeling infectious diseases.
dr Ruth P. Serquiña
MOCOS PhillipinesFaculty member of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology, Iligan City, Philippines. Research focus is on mathematical modeling of ecological systems and on dynamical systems.
prof. Thomas Götz
MOCOS GermanyProfessor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Koblenz-Landau since 2011. His research focuses on mathematical modelling and mathematical epidemiology. For ten years, the mathematician has been working with his colleagues from Kaiserslautern as well as from Portugal and various Asian countries on mathematical aspects of the spread of diseases.
prof. Tyll Krüger
MOCOS founderProfessor in the Department of Electronics at the Wrocław University of Science and Technology. Professionally, he deals with mathematical modelling in medicine and biology, stochastic processes, complex networks and dynamic systems. A graduate of the Humboldt University in Berlin, he received his doctorate at the University of Bielefeld.
mgr inż. Tomasz Ożański
MOCOS PolandDoctoral student at the Faculty of Electronics at the Wrocław University of Science and Technology. In his scientific work he deals with stochastic systems with complex interactions, including epidemic modelling. In his professional work he deals with image processing and machine learning.
dr Viktor Bezborodov
MOCOS PolandA mathematician professionally involved in probabilistics and modelling the spread of infections. PostDoc at the Università degli Studi di Veronaa.
dr hab. Wolfgang Bock
MOCOS GermanyWorks at the Technomathematics Group at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern. His current research objectives are the modeling of systems with non-local interactions and the corresponding fractional S(P)DEs.
dr Wojciech Rafajlowicz
MOCOS PolandWorks in the Department of Technical Computer Science, Faculty of Electronics, Wrocław University of Technology. In his research he focuses on the problems teaching and optimizing the decision sequence.
dr Yashika Jayathunga
MOCOS GermanyGraduate of the University of Kaiserslautern who is currently working as a researcher at the University of Koblenz-Landau. Her research focuses on mathematical modeling and mathematical epidemiology.