Lauren Gardner (scientist)
Lauren Gardner | |
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| Born | Lauren Marie Gardner |
| Alma mater | University of Texas at Austin |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of New South Wales Johns Hopkins University |
| Thesis | Network based prediction models for coupled transportation-epidemiological systems (2011) |
| Doctoral students | Ensheng 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 |
| Website | https://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.