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.
Ed Knock
Ed is a data science software developer with a background in mathematics and statistics. He has extensive experience in epidemic modelling, most notably on COVID-19 in the UK. He likes cats, cinema (particularly Italian horror and Hong Kong action cinema), metal, prog and cycling (though he finds he has far more time to watch it than do it himself these days).
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.
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!
Mudar Tayy
Mudar builds web applications that make infectious disease models and data usable by researchers and policymakers. He's leading the development of an interactive map of antimalarial drug resistance across Africa, and develops tools for dengue and other arbovirus research. Outside of work he's curious about quantum computing and behavioural science.
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.
