Health Geography and Disease Modeling Laboratory

Medical and health geography, GIS applications in epidemiology, environmental studies, mathematical modeling of infectious diseases, host-pathogen and pathogen-pathogen interactions, health economics assessment

Esteban Correa attended Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira in Colombia, where he majored as –cum laude– in Computer Science and Systems Engineering. Afterwards, he accomplished a research training in traffic analysis within the same university. The training was funded through a scholarship for young researchers from COLCIENCIAS, the Administrative Department of Science, Technology and Innovation of Colombia. He finished his studies with a master degree at the specific area of image processing at Université Lyon 1 in France. He was awarded a joint MSc. in Computer Engineering degree with Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. During his master studies, Esteban fulfilled a research internship at CREATIS, a Biomedical Imaging Research Center under the supervision of Prof. Maciej Orkisz. He also had complementary formation in Computer vision and Machine Learning (ENS/INRIA Visual Recognition and Machine Learning Summer School in Paris).

Degree program: Ph.D
Advisor: Changjoo Kim
Committee members: TBD
Research Interest: Spatial analysis/ statistics, Public health, Accessibility
Program Begin Term: 2017F
GA Appointment: Teaching Assistant

Degree program: PhD
Advisor: Dr. Cuadros
Committee members: Diego Cuadros, Lin Liu,  Kevin N. Raleigh, Tomasz Stepinsky, Yanyu Xiao
Research Interests: Spatial statistics, Geocomputation, Medical Geography
GA assignment: TA