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Simin Ma and Shihao Yang

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Ph.D student Simin Ma sits with Assistant Professor Shihao Yang at his desk. A computer monitor shows flu data and Google search trends that they used in their Covid and flu forecasting models.

Ph.D. student Simin Ma, left, and Shihao Yang, assistant professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. They developed a model that uses search data to predict coming waves of serious Covid-19 and flu cases that could burden healthcare resources. (Photo: Candler Hobbs)