Lauren Gardner (scientist)

Lauren Gardner
Born
Lauren Marie Gardner
Alma materUniversity of Texas at Austin
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of New South Wales
Johns Hopkins University
ThesisNetwork based prediction models for coupled transportation-epidemiological systems (2011)
Doctoral studentsEnsheng Dong, PhD candidate

Hongru Du, PhD candidate Maximilian Marshall, PhD candidate Sonia Jindal, PhD candidate Kristen Nixon, PhD candidate Naomi Rankin, PhD Candidate Samee Saiyed, Research Assistant

Andreas Nearchou, Research Assistant
Websitehttps://systems.jhu.edu/lauren_gardner/

Lauren Marie Gardner is an American engineer who is an associate professor and co-director of the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. She created the Johns Hopkins University dashboard that is used to share information about the COVID-19 pandemic.

She is also a member of the Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Institute. She is the creator of the interactive web-based dashboard used by public health authorities, researchers, and the general public around the globe to track the COVID-19 Pandemic. The dashboard debuted on January 22, 2020, and since has recorded more than 200 billion feature requests, which are the number of interactions visitors have with the underlying data available on the site.

Gardner was included in Time's 100 Most Influential People of 2020.