Epidemic Spreading

Critical hybrid epidemic spreading model

Dr. Shi Zhou and collaborators studied the critically hybrid epidemics. They proposed a meta-population model which revealed the feasibility of combining different spreading mechanisms to produce an extremely infectious epidemic.

The Internet worm Conficker

They introduced the critically hybrid epidemic spreading model, which explained the extraordinary infectiousness of the Internet worm Conficker.


Modelling HIV in vivo hybrid spreading

They proposed the first mathematical model that reproduces the full course of HIV infection in human body. This model can be used for evaluation of new therapeutic treatments.