Dr. Abel Torres-Espin is an Assistant Professor of Health Data Science in the School of Public Health Sciences at University of Waterloo. His research expands the cross-section between health and biomedicine with data science.
With a background in biology, neuroscience, bioinformatics and biostatistics, Abel is interested in conceptualizing and modeling health as a complex system and using systems thinking, knowledge integration, and machine learning approaches to understand and model such complexity.
His research has focused on the health context of complex heterogeneous populations such as spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, dementia and chronic low back pain, resulting in tremendous individual and societal costs. He is also interested in analytical and computational methods, multivariate statistics, the reproducibility and replicability of research and real-world evidence.