Stephen Eubank

Stephen Eubank is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Tech. He holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Texas and postdoctoral experience at Los Alamos National Lab and the La Jolla Institute. His research focuses on computational epidemiology, network science, and socio-technical systems simulation. He has led major projects like the Epidemiological Simulation System (EpiSims) and contributed to the NIH MIDAS network for infectious disease modeling.

Professional roles include Deputy Director of the Network Systems Science and Advanced Computing division at the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute. His work spans infrastructure resilience, pandemic response strategies, and agent-based modeling of complex systems. He has developed tools for evaluating vaccine allocation, analyzing cascading failures in power grids, and assessing economic impacts of public health policies.

Research interests include network structure analysis, scaling in complex systems, and diffusive processes on networks. His articles prioritize understanding disease spread dynamics, network reliability, and policy implications of pandemic interventions. Collaborative efforts involve interdisciplinary teams addressing global health challenges such as Ebola and influenza outbreaks, as well as socio-technical system vulnerabilities.