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University of Notre Dame

Postdoctoral Fellow

I've been working in Perkins Lab at the University of Notre Dame since 2016. My main focus is to develop and simulate agent-based models of dengue.

2016-Present

University of Pittsburgh

Predoctoral Fellow

I conducted research in my PhD at the Public Health Dynamics Laboratory. I designed and implemented a vector-borne disease transmission model in the agent-based model FRED.

2013-2015

National University of Colombia

Researcher

My role as a researcher at the Modeling and Control of Biological Systems research group was to model and analyze dengue trnamission dynamics using deterministic and agent-based models.

2011-2015

National University of Colombia

Modeling Engineer

I worked with the school of public health at the National University of Colombia in developing a mathematical model to estimate the burden of dengue in Colombia. We also used this model to design optimal control strategies for possible vaccination scenarios.

2011-2012

National University of Colombia

Teaching Assistant

I taught to engineering students the class sensors and actuators, and assisted the laboratory of the class automatic control.

2012-2013

Education

National University of Colombia - Bogotá

Ph.D. in Engineering
Thesis: Large-scale vector-borne disease agent-based model, with application to Chikungunya in Colombia
2016

National University of Colombia - Bogotá

Master of Engineering
Thesis: Modelamiento de la dinámica del dengue en Colombia
2012

National University of Colombia - Bogotá

Bachelor of Electronics Engineering
2010

Skills

Computer languages

C++

Python

Perl

R

Swift

JS

SQL

HTML

VBA

Modeling

Agent-based models

ODE models

Model fiting

Dynamical systems

Control theory

Non-linear systems

Optimization

Other

Scikit-learn

TensorFlow

Publications

Biased efficacy estimates in phase-III dengue vaccine trials due to heterogeneous exposure and differential detectability of primary infections across trial arms

España G., Hogea C., Guignard A., ten Bosch Q. A., Morrison A. C., Smith D. L., ... Perkins T. A.

PLOS ONE

2019

Exploring scenarios of chikungunya mitigation with a data-driven agent-based model of the 2014–2016 outbreak in Colombia.

España G., Grefenstette J., Perkins A., Torres C., Campo Carey A., Diaz H., ... van Panhuis W.

Scientific Reports

2018

Spatiotemporal incidence of Zika and associated environmental drivers for the 2015-2016 epidemic in Colombia.

Siraj, A. S., Rodriguez-Barraquer, I., Barker, C. M., Tejedor-Garavito, N., Harding, D., Lorton, C., ... Perkins, T. A.

Scientific Data

2018

The Long-Term Safety, Public Health Impact, and Cost-Effectiveness of Routine Vaccination with a Recombinant, Live-Attenuated Dengue Vaccine (Dengvaxia): A Model Comparison Study.

Flasche, S., Jit, M., Rodríguez-Barraquer, I., Coudeville, L., Recker, M., KoelleK., ... Ferguson N.

PLOS Medicine

2016

Pokémon Go and Exposure to Mosquito-Borne Diseases: How Not to Catch ‘Em All

Oidtman, R. J., Christofferson, R. C., ten Bosch, Q. A., Espana, G ., Kraemer, M. U. G., Tatem, A., ... Perkins, T. A.

PLOS Currents Outbreaks

2016

Burden of Disease and Economic Impact of Dengue and Severe Dengue in Colombia, 2011

Castañeda-Orjuela, C., Díaz, H., Alvis-Guzman, N., Olarte, A., Rodriguez, H., Camargo, G., and de la Hoz-Restrepo, F.

Value in Health Regional Issues

2012

Model-based assessment of public health impact and cost-effectiveness of dengue vaccination following screening for prior exposure

España, G ., Yao, Y., Anderson, K. B., Fitzpatrick, M. C., Smith, D. L., Morrison, A. C., ... Perkins, A.

BioRxiv (Preprint)

2018

An agent-based model of dengue virus transmission shows how multiple uncertainties about vaccine efficacy influence public health impact projections.

Perkins, A., Reiner, R., España, G. , ten Bosch, Q., Verma, A., Liebman, K., ... Smith, D. L.

BioRxiv (Preprint)

2018

DTK-Dengue: A new agent-based model of dengue virus transmission dynamics.

Soda, K. J., Moore, S. M., Espana, G. , Bloedow, J., Raybaud, B., Althouse, B., ... ten Bosch, Q. A.

BioRxiv (Preprint)

2018

Conferences

Phase-III dengue vaccine trial simulations quantify sensitivities of vaccine efficacy estimates to unmeasured heterogeneities.

España G, Hogea C, Guignard A, ten Bosch QA, Morrison AC, Smith D., et al.

Epidemics 6 - International Conference on Infectious Disease Dynamics. Barcelona, USA.

2017

Simulating Chikungunya Outbreaks in Colombia Using an Agent-Based Model.

Guido España, John Grefenstette, Hernando Diaz, Alex Perkins,Fernando Delahoz-Restrepo, Donald Burke, et al.

ASTMH Annual Meeting. Atlanta, USA.

2016

Simulating Chikungunya Outbreaks in Colombia Using an Agent-Based Model.

Guido España, John Grefenstette, Hernando Diaz, Alex Perkins, Fernando Delahoz-Restrepo, Donald Burke, et al.

Fourteenth Annual Meeting on Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases. Ithaca, USA.

2016

Risk analysis of Chikungunya in Colombia based on historical Dengue epidemics.

Guido España, John Grefenstette, Hernando Diaz, Fernando Delahoz-Restrepo, Donald Burke, and Willem van Panhuis.

Epidemics 5 - International Conference on Infectious Disease Dynamics. Clearwater Beach, USA.

2015

Agent-Based Simulation of Chikungunya in Colombia.

Guido España, John Grefenstette, Hernando Diaz, Donald Burke, and Willem van Panhuis.

Congreso colombiano de parasitología y medicina tropical. Santa Marta, Colombia.

2015

A National Agent-Based Model of Dengue Transmission in Colombia.

G. Camargo, J. Grefenstette, H. Díaz, C. Castañeda-Orjuela, E. Marques, N. Stone, et al.

Fourth Pan-American Dengue Research Meeting. Belém, Brazil.

2014

Análisis Wavelet de la ocurrencia de dengue en dos 2014 departamentos de Colombia.

G. Camargo, A. Olarte, H. Díaz, and W. van Panhuis.

Congreso latinoamericano de control automático. Cancún, México.

2014

Mathematical model for the 2013 design of a Dengue vaccination campaign in Colombia.

G. Camargo, C. Castañeda-Orjuela, F. Dela Hoz-Restrepo, and H. Diaz.

Epidemics 4 - International Conference on Infectious Disease Dynamics. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

2013

Modelo del dengue 2012 estratificado por edad e incluyendo dos serotipos del virus para representar la dinámica en Colombia.

G. Camargo, A. Olarte, and H. Diaz.

Encuentro nacional de investigación y desarrollo. Bogotá, Colombia.

2012

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