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Aaron King serves as the Nelson G. Hairston Collegiate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Complex Systems, and Mathematics at the University of Michigan. He holds appointments in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of Mathematics, and Center for the Study of Complex Systems.
His research focuses on the dynamics of ecological, epidemiological, and evolutionary systems. Key research areas include host-pathogen systems (pertussis, dengue, cholera, measles, malaria), parasite infections within hosts, genomic and epidemiologic data integration with transmission models, antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections in hospitals, and statistical inference methods for biological systems. His work combines sophisticated model-based approaches to understand biological systems, analyze data, and make predictions.
Professor King has developed significant open-source software including 'ouch' for phylogenetic comparative analysis using Ornstein-Uhlenbeck models, 'pomp' for inference with partially-observed Markov processes, and several other computational tools for mathematical biology.
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Biological Sciences Scholar, University of Michigan
He advises graduate students and postdoctoral researchers including Avinash Subramanian and Madeline Peters (Schmidt Fellow). His research is supported by grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation. Professor King teaches courses including Mathematical Ecology (EEB/MATH/CMPLXSYS 466), Introduction to Adaptive Systems (CMPLXSYS 510/MATH 550), and specialized courses in model-based statistical inference.
He maintains affiliations with the Santa Fe Institute as an External Professor, and with the Michigan Institute for Data Science and Michigan Medicine Center of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics.
