The Machine Intelligence Group for the betterment of Health and the Environment (MIGHTE), now based at the Network Science Institute, at Northeastern University (from 2017 to 2022, our research lab, the Machine Intelligence Lab, was based at Boston Children’s Hospital) and the Center fo Communicable Disease Dynamics, at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has a multidisciplinary research agenda. Our research involves the conception and implementation of machine intelligence analytics tools, capable of predicting unobserved events in public health and healthcare in the immediate or near future. Our work ranges from tracking disease outbreaks around the Globe, leveraging information from big data sets from Internet-based services (such as Google, Twitter, Weather, Human Mobility, Electronic Health Records), to bed-side patient-centered monitoring approaches aimed at improving care in clinical settings.

Generally speaking, our approaches use machine learning techniques to identify patterns that have occurred historically that may be predictive of specific and future events of interest, for example:

  • Can we characterize the time evolution of a disease outbreak in a population by analyzing: 
    • disease-related search activity on Internet search engines?
    • the local air temperature/humidity in their location?
    • human mobility patterns?
    • multiple disparate Internet-based data sources ?
  • Can we identify real-time vital signs patterns in a patient's hospital visit that may suggest the need to intervene or change care plans, hours (or days) before this happens?

Our team consist of applied mathematicians, computer scientists, physicists, public health experts, and clinicians. 

Current Team Members:

Mauricio Santillana

Mauricio Santillana, PhD. Physics and Computational and Applied Mathematics
Principal Investigator and Lab lead,

  • Professor of Physics, Northeastern University
  • Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University
  • Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

 

Nicole Kogan

Nicole Kogan, PhD Student in Population Health Sciences,
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Team member: 2020 - present

Leo Clemente

Cesar Leonardo Clemente, M.S. Applied Math and Physics,
Tecnológico de Monterrey

Team member: 2017 -present

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Gemma Llano, MIGHTE Lab Operations Manager
​Northeastern University

Team member: 2023 - present

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Tamanna Urmi, Ph.D. Student in Network Science
​Northeastern University

Team member: 2022 - present

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Anjalika Nande, PhD Physics,
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

Team member: 2021 - present
Now: Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University​

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Xiyu Yang, M.S. in Data Science, Harvard

Team member: 2023 - present

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Raul Garrido, PhD Student in Physics
​Northeastern University

Team member: 2023 - present

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Yash Bhora, Undergraduate student, Physics
Northeastern University

Team member: 2023 - present

Ang Barrett, Mathematics and Physics Student
Northeastern University

Team member: 2024 - present

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Jinho Park, Undergraduate Student, Mathematics
​Harvard University

Team member: 2023 - present

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Fred Lu, PhD Student in Computer Science,
University of Maryland

Team Member: 2016 - present

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Austin Meyer, M.D. Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin,
Now: Instructor, Harvard Medical School

Team member: 2021 - present

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Leonardo Cázares, Undergraduate Student, Physics
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Team member: 2022 - present

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Matthew Levine, PhD in Computing + Mathematical Science,
California Inctitute of Technology

Team member: 2023 - present

Canelle Poirier

Canelle Poirier, PhD Applied Statistics,
Université de Rennes, France

Team member: 2019 - present

Dianbo Liu

 

Dianbo Liu, PhD Mathematical Modelling, 
University of Dundee, UK

Team member: 2019-present

 

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Skyler Wu, Undergraduate student, Statistics
Harvard University

Team member: 2020 - present

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Iris Lang, Undergraduate Student, Applied Math
​Harvard University

Team member: 2022 - present

Tiggy

Tigist Menkir, PhD Student in Population Health Sciences,
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Team member: 2019 - present

   
Current Colaborators
  Lucas_Stolerman

Lucas Stolerman, PhD, PhD Mathematics

National Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, Brazil

Team member: 2020-present

Nick Link

Nick Link, PhD Student in Biostatistics,
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Team member: 2019 - present

Paola Calvachi

Paola Calvachi, MD MSc,

MBI-Candidate, Harvard Medical School

Team member: 2020-present
Justin

Justin Kaashoek, Undergraduate student,

Harvard College

Team member: 2020 - present

Taylor_chin

Taylor Chin, PhD Student in Population Health Sciences,

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Team member: 2018 - present

Xincheng Tan

Xincheng Tan, Master in Computational Science & Engineering Student,

Harvard Institute of Applied and Computational Sciences

Team member: 2021 - present

Lin Zhu

Lin Zhu, Master in Computational Science & Engineering Student,

Harvard Institute of Applied and Computational Sciences

Team member: 2020 - present

Past Team Members

Derek MacFadden

Derek MacFadden, Medical Doctor and Ph.D Candidate, Harvard School of Public Health 

Collaboration: 2017- 2019

Mohammad Hattab

Mohammad W. Hattab, Ph.D. Biostatistics, Wyss Institute, Harvard University

Collaboration: 2018 - 2019

Shihao Yang, Assistant Professor, School of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

Collaboration: 2015 - 2017

Maia Majumder

Maia Majumder, Ph.D. Engineering Systems, Harvard University’s Health Policy Data Science lab

Collaboration: 2014 - 2021

Yuval Barak-Corren

Yuval Barak-Corren, M.D., Researcher at Boston Children's Hospital

Collaboration: 2016 - 2019

Kristin B

Kristin Baltrusaitis, Ph.D. Candidate in Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health

Collaboration: 2015 - 2020

Won-Yong

Prof. Won-Yong Shin, Ph.D. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Dankook University, Korea

Collboration: 2018 - 2021

Vivek Sharma

Vivek Sharma, PhD
Researcher, MIT Media Lab; 

Team member: 2019 - 2020

Now: Postoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Backtosch Mustafa

    
Backtosch Mustafa, Medical Student, University of Hamburg; 
Visiting Scholar, Harvard Medical School

Team member: 2019 - 2020

Wei_Luo

Wei Luo, PhD in Geographic Information Sciences,  Postdoctoral Fellow at HMS

Team member: 2019-2020

Now: Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore

Bhaven Patel

Bhaven Patel, Master in Computational Science & Engineering Student, Harvard Institute of Applied and Computational Sciences

Team member: 2019 - 2020

Now: Personal Capital

Mathieu_molina

Mathieu Molina, M.S. Engineering and Data Science, Mines ParisTech; Intern, Boston Childrens Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Team member: 2019 - 2020

Now: Amazon Inc

Emily Aiken

Emily Aiken, B.S. Computer Science, Harvard University

Team member: 2018 - 2019

Now: PhD student, University of California, Berkeley

Sarah McGough

Sarah McGough, PhD,  Candidate Global Health, Harvard School of Public Health       

Team member: 2016 - 2019

Now: Data Scientist at Genentech

Gal K

Gal Koplewitz, B.S. Computer Science, Harvard University

Team member: 2018 - 2019

Now: Data Scientist, Quantum Black; and Independent Scientific Writer, (The Economist, New Yorker, etc)

Karla_Mejia

Karla Mejía, M.S. in Global Health, Harvard School of Public Health

Team member: 2018 - 2019

Now: Associate Staff, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Fred Lu

Fred Lu, B.S Computational Biology, Harvard University             

Team member: 2016 - 2018       

Now: Graduate student, Stanford University

   David Castineira

David Castiñeira, PhD. Chemical Engineering, Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Team member: 2016 - 2017

Now: Chief Technology Officer, Quantum Reservoir Impact

Gaston Fiore

Gaston Fiore, M.S. Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Team member: 2016 - 2017

Now: Entrepreneur

     Kaycie Schlosser

Kaycie Schlosser, Medical Doctor, Chief Fellow, Boston Children's Hospital

Team member: 2016 - 2017

Now: Pediatric Intensivist, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Gal Wachtel

Gal Wachtel, B.S. Molecular & Cellular Biology, Harvard University

Team member: 2017

Now: Data Scientist, Palantir

Sam Tideman

Sam Tideman, M.S. Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health

Team member: 2017

Now: Data Scientist, Northshore University Healthsystem

 Nick Generous

Nick Generous, M.S. Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health

Team member: 2017

Now: Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Suqin Hou

Suqin Hou, M.S. Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health

Team member: 2016

Now: Data Scientist, KAYAK

Andre Nguyen

Andre Nguyen,  B.S. Applied Math, Harvard University

Team member: 2014 - 2016

Now: Senior Data Scientist, at Booz Allen Hamilton