Lauren Gardner Recognized for Developing AI Systems to Discover and Track Potential Pandemics.

Lauren Gardner, the Alton and Sandra Cleveland Professor in civil and systems engineering at Johns Hopkins University, has been recognized for her work in developing AI systems to discover and track potential pandemics. She received the Future Insight Prize from Merck for her contributions. Dr. Gardner played a crucial role in creating a web-based COVID-19 dashboard at Johns Hopkins that became a global resource for tracking the pandemic. She has also developed a modeling system to predict measles outbreaks in the United States. In addition to her teaching position, Dr. Gardner holds a joint faculty appointment with the department of epidemiology and serves as director of the Center for Systems Science and Engineering. She previously worked at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. [Extracted from the article]