Biography

I’m a mathematician and postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Quantitative Medicine at UConn Health, under the supervision of Reinhard Laubenbacher. My mathematical training focused on projective geometry and algebraic geometry, and my research background includes scientometry and network science. I’m currently focusing on applications of geometric and topological data analysis to health informatics and outcomes research.

Research Experience for Undergraduates

Modeling Incidence and Severity of Disease using Healthcare Data

Lauren Nicole Geiser, Beverly Anne Setzer, Jason Cory Brunson, Reinhard Laubenbacher

I mentored two undergraduate students in the NSF-sponsored summer REU “Data and Models in the Biosciences”. We conducted exploratory and predictive analyses of the MIMIC-III critical care database toward three aims: a triage model of myocardial infarction (MI) patients, a risk assessment model for MI patients, and a time series model of MI occurrence.

• Querying MIMIC using the dplyr frontend

Network Analysis of Coauthorship in Mathematics

Jason Cory Brunson, Steve Fassino, Antonio McInnes, Monisha Narayan, Brianna Richardson, Christopher Franck, Patrick Ion, Reinhard Laubenbacher

I mentored four undergraduate students in the NSF-sponsored summer REU “Modeling and Simulation in Systems Biology”. We used statistical and network analysis to characterize coauthorship among mathematicians, based on a bibliographic data set from Mathematical Reviews provided by the American Mathematical Society.

• Evolutionary events in a mathematical sciences research collaboration network
• Surveying the diagnostic landscape: How the exploratory use of simple diagnostics yielded deeper insights into a mathematics collaboration network

High School Internships

Ordination in the Tidyverse

Jason Cory Brunson, Emily Paul, Reinhard Laubenbacher

I mentored a student through the Achieve internship program at Avon High School. We wrote and documented code to organize and visualize the output of principal components analysis in a pipe-able workflow using tidy data and grammar of graphics principles.

• ordr: manipulate ordinations and render biplots in a tidyverse workflow

Formal Context Analysis of Chronic Disease Co-occurrence

Jason Cory Brunson, Reed Freling, Reinhard Laubenbacher

I mentored a student through the Achieve internship program at Avon High School. We implemented techniques from formal concept analysis and used them to examine the co-occurrence of chronic diseases in the U.S. population, as recorded in the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey.

• Duquenne-Guigues Basis at Algo-Run