Meet the Team

  • Christine K. Johnson


    Center Director

    Principal Investigator

    EpiCenter for Disease Dynamics

  • Urbashi Mitra


    Associate Director

    FORECAST Team Lead

    Ubli Mitra Research

  • Simon Anthony

    Simon Anthony


    Associate Director

    INFORM Team Lead

    Anthony Lab

  • Karen Saylors


    Associate Director

    Cross-cutting Team Lead

    Labyrinth Global Health

  • Gisele Ragusa


    Director of Training and Outreach

    Transdisciplinary Education

    Senior Scientist

    The STEM Education Research Group

  • David Coil


    Program Manager

    Herding cats

  • Janna Freeman


    Operations and Policy Officer

    Herding cats

  • Guillaume Jospin


    Cyberinfrastructure and Data Management Officer

  • Cristina Davis


    Health Sensor Systems

    Senior Scientist

    Bioinstrumentation and BioMEMS Lab

  • Pei Zhang


    Sensor Integration and Wireless Network

    Senior Scientist

    Pei Zhang Research

  • Troy Magney


    Remote Environmental Sensing

    Senior Scientist

    Plant Optics Lab

  • Patrick Mercier


    Sensor Integration and Ruggedization

    Senior Scientist

    Energy-Efficient Microsystems Lab

  • Bistra Dilkina


    Machine Learning and Optimization

    Senior Scientist

    Center for AI in Society

  • Zhaodan Kong


    Cyber-physical Systems and Robotics

    Senior Scientist

    CHPS Lab

  • Nadine Lamberski


    Wildlife Sensor Innovation and Public Outreach

    Senior Scientist

    San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance

  • Kartik Chandran


    Emerging Virus Structure

    Senior Scientist

    The Chandran Lab

  • Rebekah Kading


    Infectious Disease

    Senior Scientist

    Kading Lab

  • Brian Wood


    Human Behavior and Social Science

    Senior Scientist

    Brian Wood Research

  • Tigga Kingston


    Wildlife Ecology and Public Outreach

    Senior Scientist

    Kingston Lab

  • Tierra Smiley Evans


    Community Health

    Senior Scientist

  • Marcela Uhart


    Outbreak Investigations and Global Engagement

    Senior Scientist

  • Angel Desai


    Epidemiology of Emerging Infectious Diseases

    Senior Scientist

    Desai Website

  • Ian Ingram


    Wildlife Sensor Innovation

  • Maggie Reinbold


    Community Engagement

  • Mitchell M. McCartney


    Health Sensor Systems

  • Elizabeth Leasure


    Financial Manager

  • Eunah Preston


    Marketing & Graphic Design Specialist

  • Alex Tremeau-Bravard


    Laboratory Specialist

  • Pranav Pandit


    Epidemiological modeling

  • Jonathan Eisen


    Microbiome and Environmental Sampling

    Eisen lab