Members
Sam Clark leads the openVA Team. Sam is a demographer, epidemiologist, and data scientist at The Ohio State University. He works on developing new methods and data resources for demography and epidemiology.
Zehang (Richard) Li is a statistician at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is a specialist in statistical/computational algorithms to automate cause classification using verbal autopsy data. He also works on estimation of under five mortality rates from complex survey data and models to characterize excess deaths.
Clarissa Surek-Clark is a lecturer and research scientist at The Ohio State University. She has specific expertise in the verbal autopsy interview and maintains openVA Team collaborations.
Yue Chu is a postdoc in the Department of Sociology at The Ohio State University working with Sam. She has specific expertise in machine learning and artificial intelligence approaches to cause classification using verbal autopsy data.
Tyler McCormick is a statistician at the University of Washington. He is a specialist in statistical/computational algorithms to automate cause classification using verbal autopsy data, network methods, algorithm calibration, and many other things.
Zhenke Wu is a statistician at the University of Michigan. He works on statistical/computation algorithms for cause classification using verbal autopsy data and a variety of machine learning and artificial intelligence projects for health care.
Tsuyoshi Kunihama is a statistician at the Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan. He is an expert in Bayesian statistics, and he has developed and refined a new factor model for VA cause of death classification.
