Dr. Paterne Gahungu

About

I am a Research fellow at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, specializing in spatial epidemiology and public health data analysis. My work focuses on understanding disease patterns through geospatial modeling and data-driven public health interventions.

Research Interests

• Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Modeling
• Disease Mapping and Risk Analysis
• Bayesian Statistics and INLA
• Health Disparities and Environmental Epidemiology

Selected Publications

• Gahungu, P. et.al (2022). Adjoint-aided inference of Gaussian process driven differential equations. NeurIPS 2022.
• Gahungu, P. et .al. (2021). SMathematical modeling of malaria transmission dynamics: case of Burundi. Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics.

Teaching

Courses:

• Introduction to Epidemiology
• Spatial Analysis in Public Health
• Advanced Biostatistics

Contact

Email: pgahungu@aimsric.org

Office: Kigali, Kacyiru

Twitter: @gahungupaterne