Joseph Lemaitre
Assistant Professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Switzerland
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Top SchoolJoseph Lemaitre is an infectious disease modeler and assistant professor with 13 years of experience building hybrid mechanistic/statistical tools to turn noisy epidemiological data into actionable policy insights. Trained at EPFL (PhD) and now at UNC Chapel Hill, he has led open-source projects—flepiMoP for flexible compartmental metapopulation simulations and InfluPaint for diffusion-based epidemic curve inpainting—that have supported COVID-19 and influenza forecasting worldwide. His work spans cholera, seasonal influenza, and COVID-19, combining computational science, probabilistic modeling, and applied public-health decision support. Known for bridging rigorous theory with practical pipelines, he also helps cultivate modeling communities (e.g., SMIDDY in Switzerland) and has a background in satellite-based data automation, reflecting a knack for integrating diverse data streams into robust models.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computational Science and Engineering, Master’s Degree, Computational Science and Engineering at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de LausanneDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Infectious Disease Dynamics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Infectious Disease Dynamics at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
English, French
Github Skills (28)
python10
forecasting10
data-science9
machine-learning9
docx8
pdf8
sampling8
markdown7
nodejs7
libreoffice7
pandoc7
linux7
html6
macos6
mcmc6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jcblemai/FluSight-forecast-hub
Nov 2023 - Apr 2025
Contributions:87 pushes in 1 year 5 months
jcblemai/Flusight-forecast-data
Oct 2022 - Sep 2023
Forecast submission fork for the inpainting forecast model
Contributions:92 pushes in 11 months
forecastingprophetinpaintingforecast
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