Kaiming Bi
Assistant Professor
Management, Policy & Community Health
713/500-9000
Reuel Stallones Building
1200 Pressler Street, Houston, TX 77030-3900
About
Kaiming Bi, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Management, Policy & Community Health at the University of Texas Health Science Center School of Public Health (UTSPH) and an affiliated member of the Center for Health Care Data. Dr. Bi’s research interests focus infectious disease modeling, epidemic forecasting, and supporting public health decision-making. His research spans topics such as respiratory infectious diseases, vector-borne diseases, sexually transmitted infections, and the opioid epidemic. Dr. Bi specializes in mathematical modeling, simulation, optimization, data analytics, and machine learning, leveraging quantitative and engineering methods to address challenges in public health and infectious disease research. He earned his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Kansas State University, completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, and worked as a research associate in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Bi has published in PNAS, Plos Medicine, Nature Communications, JAMA Health Forum, JAMA Network Open, Emerging Infectious Diseases, and other journals.
Center Affiliation
- Center for Healthcare Data
- Center for Health Systems Research, Policy, and Practice
Research Interests
- Artificial Intelligence
- Biostatistics and Data Science
- Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease
- Epidemiology
- Infectious Disease
- Respiratory Diseases