Dr. Chris Bauch

Chris Bauch is a Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He studies coupled human-environment systems in ecology, environmental sciences, epidemiology and climate science. Study systems include coupled social-climate systems, forest-grassland ecosystem mosaics, and vaccine scares, among others. He also conducts research on data-driven dynamical systems with a specific focus on hybridizing dynamical systems and deep learning to predict and characterize tipping points. His work has reached a wide public audience through the media, having been covered in The New York Times, Scientific American, USA Today, BBC News and other sources. His research has been published in journals such as Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of the USA, and has been funded by organizations such as the World Health Organization, the United States Food and Drug Administration, DARPA, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.