麻豆传媒

Wei's research focuses on how massive location-based social media data can help the understanding of the nature of human activities and the dynamics of social interactions.
Courses Wei has taught include python programming; data mining and modeling; data visualization; machine learning; and data analysis on AWS.
Wei earned a doctorate in geography at the University of Georgia, master's degrees in GIS and urban planning at Wuhan University and University of Twente; and a bachelor's degree in urban planning at Wuhan University.

Professor Samuel Manda is a lecturer at the Department of Statistics

His research interests include: Methods research concentrates on Bayesian modelling, analysis of survival and longitudinal studies, design and analysis of health surveys, spatial modelling, and developing innovative statistical models and analysis for research evidence combination and assembled complex and big datasets on critical African health issues such as women and child health, HIV and NCDs). 

Application research focuses on health, epidemiology, and health systems in the sub-Saharan Africa. Designing of clinical trials and impact evaluation of programs and interventions. He is currently working on small area estimation methods, causal inference of health outcomes and coverage; and COVID-19 burden estimation, modelling, and prediction in sub-Saharan Africa.