Aleksandr Aravkin

Associate Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, UW
Director, Math Sciences, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Adjunct Professor, Health Metrics Sciences, Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science & Engineering

Contact

Office: Lewis Hall 317
Email: saravkin@uw.edu

Burden of Proof Studies (2019-2024)

We developed a comprehensive meta-analytic approach for analyzing relationships between risks and outcomes. The initial set of Burden of Proof studies came out in 2022, with recent work adding a lot of new risk-outcome pairs.

• Methods capstone
• Vegetables, red meat, blood pressure
• Smoking and chewing tobacco, second-hand smoke
• Alcohol, intimate partner violence
• Risk Factors 2021

The results for 153 risk-outcome pairs analyzed in these papers are gathered together in a convenient viz tool. A research brief is published in The Conversation.

COVID-19 Modeling (2020-2023)

• The Math Sciences Team at IHME worked on COVID-19 modeling. The Nature Medicine paper describes the forecasting results with further methods details available for excess mortality estimation and key rates. Earlier modeling, developed at the start of the pandemic and based on the CurveFit tool, is available on Medrxiv. An article from A&S Newsletter highlights the work.

Education

• Ph.D. in Mathematics (Optimization), University of Washington, 2010
• M.S. in Statistics, University of Washington, 2010
• B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Washington, 2004

Research Interests

• Convex and Variational Analysis, Algorithm Design and Implementation
• Robust Statistics, Machine learning, Data Science, Inverse Problems, Uncertainty Quantification
• Health Metrics, Tracking and Navigation, Seismic Imaging, Computational Finance, Neuroscience, Computational Medicine

Past Events

• West Coast Optimization Meeting September 28, 2019.
• West Coast Optimization Meeting May 4th, 2019.
• Northwest Data Science Summit will be held on May 7th and 8th, 2019.
• PIMS workshop on computational math in renewable energy at UBC, May 21-24th, 2019.
• Semicentennial conferece Applied Mathematics: The Next 50 Years June 15-19, 2019.