Sameer Halai
Chief Executive Officer
$200M + fundraised across
3 startups (2 VC backed). Built products used by 1bn + users.
Microsoft, Limeade, Jirav,
SunFunder
Joanna Masel
Head of Science
70+ publications in fields of infectious disease, biochemistry, aging, economics, and education. Author of “Bypass Wall Street: A Biologist’s Guide to the Rat Race”.
University of Arizona
James Petrie
Head of Research
Key contributor to Bluetooth proximity detection white paper. Bluetooth Beacon Patent pending.
University of Waterloo
Liane Jollon
Head of Public Health
$3.5M funding raised. AMA Award for Outstanding Government Service. Executive Director San Juan Basin Public Health.
Columbia University
The timing of COVID-19 transmission.
Ferretti, L, Ledda, A, Wymant, C, Zhao, L, Ledda, V, Abeler-Dörner, L, Kendall, M, Nurtay, A, Cheng, H-Y, Ng, T-C, Lin, H-H, Hinch, R, Masel, J, Kilpatrick, AM, and Fraser, C. 2020. medRxiv:2020.09.04.20188516.
Modelling the effectiveness and social costs of daily lateral flow antigen tests versus quarantine in preventing onward transmission of COVID-19 from traced contacts.
Ferretti, L, Wymant, C, Nurtay, A, Zhao, L, Hinch, R, Bonsall, D, Kendall, M, Masel, J, Bell, J, Hopkins, S, Kilpatrick, AM, Peto, T, Abeler-Dörner, L, and Fraser, C. 2021. medRxiv:2021.08.06.21261725.
Quantifying meaningful adoption of a SARS-CoV-2 exposure notification app on the campus of the University of Arizona.
Masel, J, Shilen, AN, Helming, BH, Rutschman, JD, Windham, GD, Pogreba Brown, K, and Ernst, K. 2021. medRxiv:2021.02.02.21251022.
The economic value of quarantine is higher at lower case prevalence, with quarantine justified at lower risk of infection.
Petrie, J, and Masel, J. 2021. Journal of The Royal Society Interface 18:20210459.
Slowing the Spread of Infectious Diseases Using Crowdsourced Data.
von Arx, S, Becker-Mayer, I, Blank, D, Colligan, J, Fenwick, R, Hittle, M, Ingle, M, Nash, O, Nguyen, V, Petrie, J, Schwaber, J, Szabo, Z, Veeraghanta, A, Voloshin, M, White, T, and Xue, H. 2020. IEEE Data Eng Bull 43:71-82.
Quantifying SARS-CoV-2 infection risk within the Google/Apple exposure notification framework to inform quarantine recommendations.
Wilson, AM, Aviles, N, Petrie, JI, Beamer, PI, Szabo, Z, Xie, M, McIllece, J, Chen, Y, Son, Y-J, Halai, S, White, T, Ernst, KC, and Masel, J. 2021. Risk Analysis published online ahead of print.