Ryu was also recently selected as an inaugural recipient of a fellowship by the Sylvia Bozeman and Rhonda Hughes EDGE Foundation that advances the research careers of women in the mathematical sciences.
Hwayeon Ryu, assistant professor of mathematics, was awarded $12,100 in supplemental funds by the National Science Foundation. These funds will allow Ryu to visit her colleague at the National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria Saclay) in France to work on their proposed project investigating the role of stochastic behaviors in immune dynamics to SARS-CoV-2. This collaboration will supplement Dr. Ryu’s current 3-year NSF awarded project, “Mathematical Modeling of Immune Response to SARS CoV-2.”
In this project, Ryu will use an adequate mathematical methodology to develop the stochastic models and conduct corresponding simulations based on a mathematical modeling framework being currently developed by her colleague. This approach will enable them to not only address important COVID-19 treatment-related questions considered in the NSF project, but also hopefully develop a new research direction beyond the NSF study.