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Samir Bhatt

@sjbhatt.bsky.social
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Professor at Imperial College London and University of Copenhagen. Academic council of Schmidt Science Fellows. Loves maths, biology and health!

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HDSAI - Health Data Science & AI, University of Copenhagen @hdsai.sund.ku.dk · 24/10/2025
Great news for our future! Professor Samir Bhatt @sjbhatt.bsky.social is joining a new initiative to provide free access to advanced AI tools for pathogen analysis to close gaps in global preparedness to enable faster responses to future outbreaks. 🎉 Samir! novonordiskfonden.dk/en/news/new-...
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New platform to strengthen our global defence against future pandemics - Novo Nordisk Fonden
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MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis @mrc-outbreak.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Read more about socioeconomic & temporal heterogeneity in SARS-CoV-2 exposure in England (May 2020 - Feb 2023) in this @science.org publication 👇 doi.org/10.1126/scia... @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social@imperialsph.bsky.social @thomrawson.bsky.social @sjbhatt.bsky.social @cm401.bsky.social
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Socioeconomic and temporal heterogeneity in SARS-CoV-2 exposure and disease in England from May 2020 to February 2023
Deprivation and ethnicity influenced COVID-19 outcomes, revealing health inequalities and vaccine effectiveness in the pandemic.
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cm401.bsky.social @cm401.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
We are excited to have a new paper published in Science Advances on Socioeconomic and temporal heterogeneity in SARS-CoV-2 exposure and disease in England — a great team effort led by @sjbhatt.bsky.social and Prof Neil Ferguson, in collaboration with the whole team. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Socioeconomic and temporal heterogeneity in SARS-CoV-2 exposure and disease in England from May 2020 to February 2023
Deprivation and ethnicity influenced COVID-19 outcomes, revealing health inequalities and vaccine effectiveness in the pandemic.
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Tanja Stadler @tanjastadler.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Thoughts on how AI can help prepare for the next pandemic - Thanks for having led this work @mugkraemer.bsky.social Joseph L.-H. Tsui Serina Y. Chang, @sjbhatt.bsky.social - it is an honour to be part of it!
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Moritz Kraemer @mugkraemer.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
AI is poised to accelerate understanding in infectious diseases, but its value needs to be demonstrated through close collaboration between research, industry, society, and policy. Paper free to read: rdcu.be/eaxEw Summary here: www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-02...
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Artificial intelligence for modelling infectious disease epidemics
Nature - This Perspective considers the application to infectious disease modelling of AI systems that combine machine learning, computational statistics, information retrieval and data science.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
New @nature.com How #AI can play a pivotal role in future pandemic preparedness and mitigation, with caveats nature.com/articles/s41... a privilege to join this global collaborative effort led by Moritz Kraemer and Samir Bhatt
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Ryan Hisner @ryanhisner.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Looking forward to digging into this. Co-authors include @mghafari.bsky.social & @mugkraemer.bsky.social. "Large-scale genomic surveillance reveals immunosuppression drives mutation dynamics in persistent SARS-CoV-2 infections" www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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arxiv stat.ML @arxiv-stat-ml.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Alessandro Micheli, M\'elodie Monod, Samir Bhatt Diffusion Models for Inverse Problems in the Exponential Family arxiv.org/abs/2502.05994
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Moritz Kraemer @mugkraemer.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
The rising threat of deadly diseases jumping from animals to humans www.ft.com/content/a714...
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The rising threat of deadly diseases jumping from animals to humans
Zoonotic pathogens very likely caused the last pandemic. Can we get better at halting them before the next one?
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Samir Bhatt @sjbhatt.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Ill be very curious to see how this new foundation model performs on different data, and will be pleasantly surprised if boosting is finally outperformed, its been king for a while....
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Samir Bhatt @sjbhatt.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Tabular data in contrast can be very heterogeneous and importantly, highly non-smooth, both of which can cause issues in deep neural networks. Tree methods tend to be be robust to uninformative features and orientations arxiv.org/abs/2207.08815
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Why do tree-based models still outperform deep learning on tabular data?
While deep learning has enabled tremendous progress on text and image datasets, its superiority on tabular data is not clear. We contribute extensive benchmarks of standard and novel deep learning met...
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Samir Bhatt @sjbhatt.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Deep learning seems unreasonably effective. But many areas it succeeds in, the data have nice properties. For example, images, arxiv.org/abs/2104.08894 . Which might seem complex, but lie on low-dimensional manifold. Most images are locally connected, which is why spatial analysis works so well.
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The Intrinsic Dimension of Images and Its Impact on Learning
It is widely believed that natural image data exhibits low-dimensional structure despite the high dimensionality of conventional pixel representations. This idea underlies a common intuition for the r...
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Samir Bhatt @sjbhatt.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
An interesting paper out today www.nature.com/articles/s41... As well known to many of us, tabular data is fiendishly hard, and whenever a new method comes out, boosting still beats it. Always, but this paper suggests deep learning is finally competitive.
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Accurate predictions on small data with a tabular foundation model - Nature
Tabular Prior-data Fitted Network, a tabular foundation model, provides accurate predictions on small data and outperforms all previous methods on datasets with up to 10,000 samples by a wide margin.
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Swapnil Mishra @smishra.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Took us some time to get this out. Shows how one metric fits all can be dangerous. Thanks to all co-authors.
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Samir Bhatt @sjbhatt.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Stunting/wasting in children in Sub-Saharan Africa is a major public health concern. However, we show that identifying where the problem occurs can be difficult due to confounding with ethnicity. journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
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Ethnicity and anthropometric deficits in children: A cross-sectional analysis of national survey data from 18 countries in sub-Saharan Africa
Child anthropometric deficits remain a major public health problem in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and are a key target of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs recommend disaggregation of...
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Samir Bhatt @sjbhatt.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
While this is all quite technical, the framework we present and the code is relatively simple, and opens new avenues to using renewal type models to estimate importation and transmission dynamics from observed data.
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Samir Bhatt @sjbhatt.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
We also utilise the popular result of Barbour and Reinert to toggle a stochastic-deterministic switch to make computation faster. Using this framework we can calculate useful statistics like first passage times and times to extinction.
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Samir Bhatt @sjbhatt.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
In this new work, we have tried to apply this framework to looking at importation dynamics. The long story short is, we extend our process to a marked Poisson process and are still able to numerically compute (via vectorised computation) the probability generating function.
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Samir Bhatt @sjbhatt.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
In a second paper we derived the probability generating function of a time varying Crump-Mode-Jagers process and applied it to look at uncertainty (www.nature.com/articles/s42...).
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Intrinsic randomness in epidemic modelling beyond statistical uncertainty - Communications Physics
Intrinsic randomness is a critical source of uncertainty in infectious disease outbreaks. The authors show in a series of analytical results how this source of uncertainty can be better characterised.
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Samir Bhatt @sjbhatt.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
In a first paper we proved how the renewal equation used in infectious disease modelling arises from a Crump-Mode-Jagers (and, interestingly, also a Bellman-Harris) branching process (link.springer.com/article/10.1...).
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Unifying incidence and prevalence under a time-varying general branching process - Journal of Mathematical Biology
Renewal equations are a popular approach used in modelling the number of new infections, i.e., incidence, in an outbreak. We develop a stochastic model of an outbreak based on a time-varying variant o...
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Samir Bhatt @sjbhatt.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
New paper from Jacob and Frederik in the group. We have been interested in branching processes for a while now. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Modelling the stochastic importation dynamics and establishment of novel pathogenic strains using a general branching processes framework
The importation and subsequent establishment of novel pathogenic strains in a population is subject to a large degree of uncertainty due to the stocha…
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