Sara Yemimah De Valle | |
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| Alma mater | New Jersey Institute of Technology (BS, MS) University of Iowa (Ph.D) |
| Known for | Epidemiology modeling |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Thesis | Effects of behavioral changes and mixing patterns in mathematical models for smallpox epidemics (2005) |
Sara Yemimah Del Valle is a senior scientist and mathematical epidemiologist at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). At the LANL, Del Valle leads the Fusion Team, where she combines internet data with satellite imagery to forecast disease outbreaks. During the COVID-19 pandemic Del Valle created a computational model that could predict the spread of COVID-19 around the United States.