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I attended the University of California (UC), Irvine from 2008 to 2013 where I studied International Studies & Statistics. I received my MPH in Epidemiology & Biostatistics in 2016, and my PhD in Epidemiology with a designated emphasis in Computational Biology in 2020, both under John M. Marshall at UC Berkeley. My main research interest is the process of going from a whiteboard description of a complex system to a verifiable simulation program. This process tends to proceed from observation about a real sy
Inspiration for collecting these notes and scraps is largely from Cosma Shalizi's excellent and voluminous collection of notebooks on everything under the sun. I am trying to move all of my notes and examples to a dedicated website, which is very slowly taking form at https://slwu89.github.io/Categorical-Idiot/ /