Doctoral Candidate Successful at Arkansas Bioinformatics Consortium 2024
Hieu Bui
Hieu Bui, a doctoral student in industrial engineering, competed in the Arkansas Bioinformatics Consortium 2024 Conference held Feb. 26-27 in Little Rock.
The consortium is a state-centric scientific community. Its mission is to develop, leverage and enhance bioinformatics expertise and resources to solve public health challenges. The conference for 2024 focused on the topic "Real-World Impact of AI."
Bui, who was advised by Sandra Eksioglu, associate dean for research, received third place recognition in the Best Poster Award, Graduate Student category, for his poster titled, "Tackling Vaccine Hesitancy Via Analytical Models." By utilizing a modeling approach to capture changes in vaccine hesitancy over time, his research highlighted the need to decrease vaccine hesitancy to improve health outcomes, the importance of fast and effective vaccination programs and the critical role of sufficient hospital beds and ventilators in reducing mortality.
Contacts
Tamara O. Ellenbecker, website developer
Department of Industrial Engineering
479-575-3157,
tellenbe@uark.edu
Jennifer P. Cook, director of communications
College of Engineering
479-575-5697,
jpc022@uark.edu
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