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Syed Faraz Ahmed is a McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He focuses on developing data-driven solutions for vaccine and antiviral drug design targeting infectious diseases. His work integrates computational methods with immunological insights to identify precise pathogen targets.
Education: PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2016–2022), Master's from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. Professional affiliations include the Australian Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Society (ABACBS), Australia and New Zealand Society for Immunology (ASI), and International Society for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (ISCB).
Research interests span vaccine engineering, T cell immunity, CRISPR-based drug design, and bioinformatics-driven antigen discovery. He has contributed to platforms like COVIDep for real-time vaccine target recommendations and pioneered methods for analyzing mutational networks in viral proteins.
His work on cross-reactive immunity for monkeypox and Omicron variants highlights strategic vaccine design. He has secured grants from ARC, NHMRC, and MRFF for projects like 'Using Big Data to Engineer Hepatitis C Vaccines' and 'CRISPR-Cas13b Drug Design' (2022–2028).
Awards include the 2025 McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2022 Young Scientist Laureate Forum, and 2016 Hong Kong PhD Fellowship. His research bridges engineering principles with biomedical challenges, emphasizing computational tools for public health solutions.
