Invited Talks

Tsinghua University, China, 2019
Tsinghua University, China, 2019

  • Modeling the Opioid Epidemic in the United States, Center for Health Decision Science, Harvard, April 2021 

  • A dynamic model for COVID-19 in Brazil, MIT Media Lab, March 2021

  • Modeling the opioid crisis, University of Washington, March 2021

  • COVID-19 modeling, MIT Media Lab, December 2020 

  • Weather, Air Pollution, and COVID-19, Georgia Southern University, August 2020

  • The impact of weather and air pollution on COVID-19 transmission, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), July 2020

  • Systems engineering meets food safety, Wageningen University, The Netherlands, Jan 2020

  • Systems science in opioids research, Bentley University, USA, Nov 2019

  • Opioids systems modeling at the FDA, Opioid Use Disorder Modeling Seminar, Portland, OR, USA, Oct 2019 

  • Model synthesis and data fusion, Peking University, China, May 2019

  • Data modeling and simulation for decision making in healthcare, Tsinghua University, China, May 2019

  • Data needs for opioids systems modeling, US Food and Drug Administration, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, USA, May 2019

  • Systems thinking and dynamic modeling for health policy analysis, RAND Corporation, Boston, USA, Oct. 2018

  • A flexible method for aggregation of prior modeling-based findings; combining heterogeneous statistical findings, Medical Practice Evaluation Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA, Oct. 2018

  • Analytical methodologies for evidence-based policy and decision-making, Wichita State University, USA, Mar. 2018

  • Fighting another war: How many military personnel and veterans will have PTSD in 2025?, Health Systems Innovation’s Lunch Seminars at MIT Sloan, USA, Nov. 2017

  • A new approach for aggregating heterogeneous statistical findings, MAER-NET Workshop, Germany, Oct. 2017

  • Diagnosis policies for PTSD and social stigma, MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, USA, Oct. 2017

  • A flexible method for aggregation of prior statistical findings, Applied Stats Workshop at Harvard IQSS (Gary King’s group), USA, Sep. 2017

  • System dynamics modeling for complex sociotechnical problems, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, Sep. 2017

  • Aggregation of prior heterogeneous statistical findings, SRSM Annual Meeting at McGill University, Canada, Jul. 2017

  • Synthesizing predictive equations, Harvard School of Public Health, USA, May 2017

  • Systems science and health policy, The University of Tokyo, Japan, Mar. 2017

  • Introduction to MIT-(IC)3, Keio University, Japan, Mar. 2017

  • A novel method for aggregation of statistical findings, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, Feb. 2017

  • System dynamics in health, for executives at Novartis, MIT Industrial Liaison, USA, Nov. 2016

  • Measuring stakeholders’ perceptions of cybersecurity, International Workshop on Data Analytics, Italy, Jun. 2016

  • Cybersecurity governance and culture, (keynote speaker and panelist), MIT Information and Communication Technologies Conference, USA, Apr. 2016

  • A flexible method for aggregation of statistical findings, University of Pittsburgh, USA, Apr. 2016

  • Current topics in systems thinking, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran, Apr. 2015

  • Aggregation of heterogeneous statistical findings, Human Dynamics Lab (Alex 'Sandy' Pentland’s lab), MIT Media Lab, USA, Feb. 2015

  • Research synthesis and meta-analysis, West Virginia University, USA, Sep. 2013