Big congratulations to Dr. Syed Faraz Ahmed for his PhD at HKUST!
Faraz made a brilliant defense of his thesis entitled “Genetic Sequence Analysis to Inform Design of Universal Vaccines against Infectious Diseases“, which was jointly supervised by Prof. McKay and myself on topics related to data science, computational immunology and vaccine design. Part of Faraz’s PhD work uses computational methods based on random matrix theory. He is going to continue his research as a post-doctoral fellow in Prof. McKay’s group at University of Melbourne (Australia). We wish him all the best in his new endeavour!!
Congrats again Dr. Faraz!