Co-Lead, Research Project 2, MISM
Professor in Mathematics, NCSU
Kevin Flores, PhD, Co-Lead, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and a member of the Center for Quantitative Sciences in Biomedicine and the Center for Research in Scientific Computation at North Carolina State University (NCSU). Dr. Flores earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the College of Creative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, earned a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University, and joined NCSU in 2015 as a Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program cluster hire in Precision Medicine. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow in NCSU’s Department of Mathematics, a postdoctoral associate in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University, and a bioinformatician in the Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics at the Mayo Clinic.
Dr. Flores’ research focuses on mathematical modeling, optimal experimental design, and uncertainty quantification with applications to precision medicine, systems and synthetic biology, and environmental toxicology. His publications have appeared in mathematical and biological journals. He is a Principal Investigator on a project funded by the National Science Foundation’s Mathematical Biology program and serves as Co-Lead for MISM Research Project 2.