Applied mathematics team developing AI to predict virus mutations

A team of applied mathematicians at the University of Waterloo have developed a new method that uses artificial intelligence to foresee the most likely mutations of pathogens like SARS-COV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

The new research has implications for the rapid development of vaccines, treatments and diagnostic tests that would be much less likely to be impacted by new or emerging variants of concern.

The team is comprised of a group of professors from the Department of Applied Mathematics, including Mohammad Kohandel, Amirhossein Darooneh and Michelle Przedborski.

Read more in the Waterloo News media release.