Kashif Zia

Dr. Kashif Zia is a Research Associate at the University of Glasgow within the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit. His work bridges Public Health and Computer Science, focusing on computational models and data-driven interventions.

• Role: Research Associate (Public Health)
• Institution: University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Research Interests

• Agent-Based Modeling for housing markets and public health
• Systems Science in tackling socioeconomic crises like cost-of-living
• Computational methods for secure biometric systems
• Epidemiological simulations for pandemic response
• Integration of behavioral economics with AI
• Uncertainty propagation in complex models

Publications highlight cross-disciplinary work combining public health with computational techniques, including models for housing markets, synthetic population datasets, and cybersecurity applications. Notable collaborations include work with the International COVID-19 Research Network.

Labs & Teams: Contributed to the SIPHER project, developing tools for public health research through synthetic data and simulations.