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Mauricio Santillana
Professor and Director of MIGHTE at the Network Science Institute
Expertise
coastal flooding, COVID-19, disease modeling, human mobility, machine learning, Nanomaterial sorbents for water treatment, network science, population dynamics, Transformation of water pollutants

Mauricio Santillana in the Press

Mauricio Santillana for Northeastern Global News

A mosquito biting into a person's skin.

Researchers use machine learning to predict dengue fever with 80% accuracy

Northeastern University breakthrough gives public health officials a step up in preparing careworkers to handle spikes in the disease.
Alessandro Vespignani sitting at a desk looking at a laptop.

Northeastern receives $17.5 million from CDC to launch infectious disease prediction center

“Alessandro Vespignani will head the center that will prepare the U.S. for future epidemics, especially in rural areas. With COVID-19, “everybody was caught off guard,” he says. “We don’t want to be in a situation like that in the future.”
person holding box of Paxlovid

Long COVID clinical trials a step in the right direction, but scale doesn’t match the need, researchers say

“There is now a shift of acknowledging it’s not in people’s heads. And that’s progress,” says Kristin Kostka, director of the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics at Northeastern’s Roux Institute.