Ellsworth Campbell

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Ells is a PhD Candidate at the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics at Penn State (Salathé Group). In August, he'll begin work as an ORISE Fellow at the CDC in Atlanta, GA.

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Research

• Digital epidemiology [1]
• Evolution of antibiotic resistance and optimal antibiotic-use strategies [2]
• Public health impacts of health behaviors that spread from person-to-person (social contagion) [3]
  • Optimal vaccination strategies when susceptibility is clustered on a network
• Infectious disease management by improved ventilation when increased vaccination coverage is not feasible

Academic Interests

• Open Source & Open-Access without exception (GitHub)
• Leveraging interactive media for scientific outreach and citizen science
  • Developed a browser-based game about epidemic prevention called Vax
  • TA for Coursera MOOC on Epidemics

Education

• BS in Human Biology from UC San Diego in 2009
• MS in Biology from UC San Diego in 2011
• PhD ongoing at Penn State / CDC (expected 2016)

CSSS

My interests are extremely broad so I'm open to anything. Like all of you I am here to explore, cultivate new skills, and step outside my comfort zone. I've listed topics & skills that might be relevant to CSSS projects.

• Infectious disease dynamics
• Evolutionary theory w/ specific experience in antibiotic resistance tradeoffs
• Social contagion processes (simple, complex & dynamic adoption)
• Network construction, manipulation and analysis
• Agent-based simulations in Java & Python
• Mass Action PopGen models in MatLab
• Data Visualization in D3.js, Gephi & ggplot2
• Data Analysis via Python & R w/ exposure to PostgreSQL
• Web Development in Ruby on Rails, Javascript & CSS

Hobbies

• Video games (more than I'd like to admit)
  • steam: ellscubed
• GeoPolitics
• Hiking/Camping (when whether permits)
• Poker (Texas Hold'em)
• Billiards (8-ball & 9-ball)
• Trees & Pineapples and such