Departmental Best Paper Award, Department of Applied Mathematics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2011/2012, 2014/2015, 2017/2018
Meritorious Winner, Mathematical Contest In Modelling, 2015 and 2019(as faculty advisor)
Outstanding Research Articles in Biosurveillance Award (second place) by the International Society of Diseases Surveillance.
Selected Publications
Zhao S, Bauch C, He D (2018) Strategic Decision-Making about Travel during Disease Outbreaks: a Game Theoretical Approach. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 15(146):20180515.
Lou Y, Liu K, He D, Gao D, Ruan S (2018) Modelling diapause in mosquito population growth. Journal of Mathematical Biology. Accepted.
He D, Wang X, Gao D, Wang J (2018) Modeling the 2016-2017 Yemen Cholera Outbreak with the Impact of Limited Medical Resources. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 451:80-85.
Zhao S, Lou Y, Chiu A, and He D (2018) Modeling the Skip-and-Resurgence of Japanese Encephalitis Epidemics in Hong Kong. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 454:1-10.
Sheikh A, Wu P, Cauchemez S, He D, Fang V, Cowling B, Tian L (2018) Ambient ozone and influenza transmissibility in Hong Kong. European Respiratory Journal. 00369.
Zhao S, Stone L, Gao D, and He D (2018) Modelling the Large-scale Yellow Fever Outbreak in Luanda, Angola, and the Impact of Vaccination. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 12(1): e0006158.
Lin Q, Chiu A, Zhao S and He D (2018) Modelling the spread of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus in Saudi Arabia. Statistical Methods in Medical Research. 27(7):1968-1978.
Wang X, Yang L, He D, Chiu A, Chan K, Chan K, Guo Q, Zhou M, Wong C, Hu W (2017) Different Responses of Influenza Epidemic to Weather Factors among Shanghai, Hong Kong and British Columbia. International Journal of Biometeorology 61(6):1043-1053.
He D and Earn D (2016) The cohort effect in childhood disease dynamics. Journal of The Royal Society Interface 13, 20160156.
He D, Dushoff J, Eftimie R, and Earn D (2013) Patterns of Spread of Influenza A across Canada. Proc Roy Soc B, 280(1770), 20131174.
He D, Dushoff J, Day T, Ma J, and Earn D (2013) Inferring the causes of the three waves of the 1918 influenza pandemic in England and Wales. Proc Roy Soc B 280(1766), 20131345.
Earn D, He D, Loeb M, Fonseca K, Lee B, and Dushoff J (2012) Effects of school closure on incidence of pandemic influenza in Alberta, Canada. Annals of Internal Medicine 156: 173-181.
He D, Dushoff J, Day T, Ma J, and Earn D (2011) Mechanistic modelling of the three waves of the 1918 influenza pandemic. Theoretical Ecology 4: 283-288
He D, Ionides E, and King A (2010) Plug-and-play inference for disease dynamics: measles in large and small populations as a case study. Journal of The Royal Society Interface 7: 271-283.
Breto C, He D, Ionides E, and King A (2009) Time series analysis via mechanistic models. Annals of Applied Statistics 3: 319-348.