Minami Ueda

About

I'm a second-year PhD student at the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University, supervised by Prof. Alessandro Vespignani at the MOBS Lab. My research spans network science, infectious disease epidemiology, Bayesian inference, and computational social science, with a focus on decomposing human and social dynamics through data and mathematical models. Drawing on quantitative analysis and technical skills across multiple disciplines, I work to build models and softwares that improve people's lives and health.

Education

• PhD in Network Science. Northeastern University, Network Science Institutehttps://www.networkscienceinstitute.org/. September 2024 - present. Boston, USA.
• Doctor of Public Health (discontinued). Kyoto Universityhttp://sph.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/. April 2024 - July 2024. Kyoto, Japan. Worked on research projects with funding from JSPS until starting PhD at Network Science Institute.
• Master of Public Health. Kyoto Universityhttp://sph.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/. April 2022 - March 2024. Kyoto, Japan.
• Bachelor of Arts. Keio University, SFChttps://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/en/. April 2017 - September 2021. Kanagawa, Japan.
• Elementary and secondary education. Gunma Kokusai Academyhttps://www.gka.ed.jp/en/. April 2005 - March 2017. Gunma, Japan.

Selected Projects

I develop and maintain open-source softwares for research in epidemic modeling, which powers our influenza forecasts submitted to CDC's FluSight. We run age-structured compartmental models with behavioral and demographic drivers (contact structure, vaccination, school calendars), calibrated via Approximate Bayesian Computation.

• mobs-lab/epymodelingsuite: Python suite for infectious disease modeling with Approximate Bayesian Computation.
• mobs-lab/epymodelingsuite-cloud: Scalable, serverless pipeline for running epymodelingsuite in parallel on Google Cloud, with a CLI tool epycloud. [doc]
• epydemix-webapi: REST API for running epidemic simulations with epydemix. [doc]
• tailestim: Python package for estimating heavy-tailed distribution parameters, including power-law exponents. [doc]

I also develop a variety of tools as personal side projects. See GitHub for details.

Grants, Awards, and Scholarships

• Scholarship, Heiwa Nakajima Foundation. September 2024 - present.
• Stipended Graduate Assistantship for PhD program, Northeastern University. September 2024 - present.
• Research Fellowships for Young Scientists (DC1), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. April 2024 - July 2024. Recieved stipend and research funding for the DrPH program at Kyoto University. Discontinued to start a PhD program at Network Science Institute.
• Excellent Graduation Project, Keio University. September 2021.

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Last updated: April 23, 2026