About
Research Software for Infectious Disease Epidemiology - we are a team of 7 research software engineers working within the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis and the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Imperial College London. ~
The team
Anmol Thapar
Anmol is a software engineer who loves building clean UI/UX, scalable backends and robust infrastructure. He is all the way from New Zealand and outside of work loves basketball, snowboarding and the gym.
David Mears
David is a software engineer with experience in government and the private sector. Besides code, some things he likes doing are playing music, singing in choirs, and improv acting.
Emma Russell
Emma started out coding laboratory process control for combinatorial chemistry, then survived several years in start-ups in the wild West Country before bringing her considerable web development expertise to RESIDE. Outside of work she spends time singing with two choirs and sometimes making stained glass.
Giovanni Charles
Giovanni is a computer scientist and health researcher. The former CTO of a health tech startup he now works with the malaria group at Imperial developing individual-based malaria models in C++ and R. Outside of tech, he paints, makes music, is a keen runner and occasional philosophy reader.
Mantra Kusumgar
Mantra studied Mathematics at university and realised most of it won't be used again so he found more applicable addictions like coding in his spare time. Other addictions include but are not limited to: chess, basketball, K-pop, anime, origami, dancing, acting, escape rooms and much much more!
Pratik Gupte
Pratik got his PhD in ecology and evolutionary biology, but following Covid, decided to help develop epidemic preparedness tools as a research software engineer. At Imperial, he supports the EPPI and VIMC groups. He enjoys cycling, hiking, gardening, and playing WoW.
Rich FitzJohn
Rich was a computational biologist for 15 years before deciding that catalysing research through software was more fun than doing it himself. He's interested in making reproducibility easier and more accessible while letting scientists focus more on science than engineering. Outside of work he enjoys rock climbing and hiking.
Wes Hinsley
Wes is a computer engineer and scientist, with a Ph.D making tools for ocean modelling, and then moving to modelling epidemics. He enjoys problem solving, Advent Of Code, (especially on 40-year old hardware), and making interactive and graphical teaching games. By night, he plays music and squash, and makes very good tea.
