{"id":216,"date":"2021-11-20T03:23:23","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T08:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/professor\/waw\/?page_id=216"},"modified":"2025-09-05T10:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:27:07","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/professor\/waw\/","title":{"rendered":"Woldegebriel Assefa Woldegerima"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"809\" height=\"875\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/professor\/waw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/533\/2021\/11\/Tg_3-3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-254\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.9248434237995825;width:259px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/professor\/waw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/533\/2021\/11\/Tg_3-3.jpeg 809w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/professor\/waw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/533\/2021\/11\/Tg_3-3-370x400.jpeg 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 809px) 100vw, 809px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong><mark class=\"kt-highlight\">Download <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/professor\/waw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/533\/2025\/05\/CV_Woldegerima-without-names-HQP.pdf\">CV<\/a><\/mark><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Assistant Professor in the Professional stream,<\/strong>  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">快播视频<\/a> in the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/science\/mathstats\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/science\/mathstats\/\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Mathematics and Statistics<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Department of Mathematics and Statistics,<br>Faculty of Science, 快播视频<br>S614 Ross Building, 4700 Keele Street,<br>Toronto, ON M3J 1P3<\/strong>,<strong> Canada<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Email<\/strong>: <strong>wassefaw@yorku.ca<\/strong><br><strong>Website:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/dimmslab.org\/\">https:\/\/dimmslab.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Education<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ph.D., Biomathematics, University of Buea with a co-supervision from Lehigh University, August 2018.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Master's degree, <a href=\"https:\/\/aims-cameroon.org\/home\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/aims-cameroon.org\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)<\/a>, Applied Partial Differential Equations, with thesis topic on \u201cExistence and Uniqueness of Viscosity Solutions for Hamilton-Jacobi Equation and Application to Optimal Control Theory.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Master's degree degree,  Addis Ababa University in Functional Analysis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Employments<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Assistant Professor, 快播视频, July 2021 - present<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the DST\/NRF SARChI Chair in Mathematical Models and Methods in Biosciences and Bioengineering Lab at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.up.ac.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">University of Pretoria, <\/a>South Africa, 2019 - 2021<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lecturer, Mekelle University, August 2018- Septemeber 2019<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pre-doctoral ResearchAssociate, Lehigh University,  USA, 2016<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I studied for my Ph.D. while working as a Tutor (Teaching Assistant) at the <a href=\"https:\/\/aims-cameroon.org\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)<\/a> .<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Personal websites<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Woldegebriel-Assefa-Woldegerima-2\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Woldegebriel-Assefa-Woldegerima-2\" target=\"_blank\">ResearchGate<\/a><mark class=\"kt-highlight\"> <\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0336-7831\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0336-7831\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ORCID<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.ca\/citations?user=QjS_7EgAAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.ca\/citations?user=QjS_7EgAAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao\" target=\"_blank\">Google Scholar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/aims-cameroon.org\/2018\/06\/22\/assefa-is-the-second-aims-cameroon-alumnus-to-complete-a-phd-in-mathematics\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/aims-cameroon.org\/2018\/06\/22\/assefa-is-the-second-aims-cameroon-alumnus-to-complete-a-phd-in-mathematics\/\" target=\"_blank\">A small description of my Ph.D. dissertation<\/a>, and a piece of news from the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences- Cameroon about the completion of my Ph.D., and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/aims-cameroon.org\/student\/dr-woldegebriel-assefa-woldegerima\/?studenbio\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/aims-cameroon.org\/student\/dr-woldegebriel-assefa-woldegerima\/?studenbio\" target=\"_blank\">here is another summary <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/science\/mathstats\/applied-and-industrial-mathematics\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/science\/mathstats\/applied-and-industrial-mathematics\/\" target=\"_blank\">Applied and Industrial Mathematics <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/science\/mathstats\/applied-and-industrial-mathematics\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/science\/mathstats\/applied-and-industrial-mathematics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Group<\/a> of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at 快播视频<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research interests<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>My main research interests include, but are not limited to,:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mathematical immunology, including modeling of cellular level dynamics of parasites, viruses and interaction with the immune system<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Within and between hosts infectious disease modelling, <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Singular perturbation theory applied to multiscale epidemiological models,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Modelling the impact of climate change on infectious disease dynamics, <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Applied Differential Equations, Viscosity solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations type equations,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Modeling reaction-kinetics, Chemotaxis,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Data analysis in Python, and <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>recently, I am enthusiastic to diversify my research to Neural differential equations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/professor\/waw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/533\/2021\/11\/immunityschematics_MimiUpdated-1-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/professor\/waw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/533\/2021\/11\/immunityschematics_MimiUpdated-1-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/professor\/waw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/533\/2021\/11\/immunityschematics_MimiUpdated-1-400x225.png 400w, 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