Biography
Awards and honours:
- 2007 Indo-US AKI Workshop, USDA/ANGRA University/ICAR/TU, Capacity Building for Risk Analysis and Modelling to Promote Agriculture trade in India.
- 2007 Tuskegee University, Recognition for Service as a Prostate Cancer Educator.
- 2010 Tuskegee University, Outstanding Faculty Performance Award for Research.
- 2011 Fort Valley State University, Appreciation for Outstanding Dedication and Service Above and Beyond The Call of Duty.
- 2011 Pfizer, Pfizer Award For Veterinary Research Excellence.
- 2013 Tuskegee University Faculty Achivement Award.
Research interests
- Dr. Tamerus team research interest is in the area of Computational Epidemiology
- Bioinformatics
- Risk Analysis focuses on computational science with the goal of developing models that can be used in epidemiologic problem-solving
- decision-making of animal
- plant
- human diseases. Current research areas include: dynamic (spatial-temporal systems analysis)
- stochastic modeling; optimization models (linear/non-linear
- dynamic programming); multivariate statistical models; expert systems models; neural networks
- genetic algorithms; risk analysis
- modeling. With his team he has worked on such diseases as HIV/AIDS
- Cancer
- in Risk Analysis models his team developed for such diseases as foot
- mouth disease (FMD)
- H1N5
- H1N1
- bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) (Released by the Secretary of Agriculture Ann M.Veneman
- 2001 ) classical swine fever
- citrus canker
- others. He has collaborated with the USDA
- the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis
- the University of Maryland College of Engineering
- FDA
- others