Yang Ye
Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)About
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2025
Impact of disease severity, age, sex, comorbidity, and vaccination on secondary attack rates of SARS-CoV-2: a global systematic review and meta-analysis
Sumsuzzman D, Ye Y, Wang Z, Pandey A, Langley J, Galvani A, Moghadas S. Impact of disease severity, age, sex, comorbidity, and vaccination on secondary attack rates of SARS-CoV-2: a global systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Infectious Diseases 2025, 25: 215. PMID: 39948450, PMCID: PMC11827239, DOI: 10.1186/s12879-025-10610-5.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPopulation settingEffective public health strategiesConfidence intervalsImpact of disease severityModified Newcastle-Ottawa ScalePublic health strategiesHigher secondary attack rateRisk of biasNewcastle-Ottawa ScalePandemic responseGlobal systematic reviewRandom-effects modelFreeman-Tukey double arcsine transformationWeb of ScienceNo significant associationDrivers of SARS-CoV-2 transmissionHealth strategiesSecondary attack rateSARS-CoV-2Disease severityEffective pandemic responseTargeted interventionsDouble arcsine transformationOvid MEDLINESystematic reviewIntegrating artificial intelligence with mechanistic epidemiological modeling: a scoping review of opportunities and challenges
Ye Y, Pandey A, Bawden C, Sumsuzzman D, Rajput R, Shoukat A, Singer B, Moghadas S, Galvani A. Integrating artificial intelligence with mechanistic epidemiological modeling: a scoping review of opportunities and challenges. Nature Communications 2025, 16: 581. PMID: 39794317, PMCID: PMC11724045, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-55461-x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsArtificial intelligenceEffective public health planningPublic health planningMechanistic modelSystematic search strategyCapabilities of artificial intelligenceData-mining capabilitiesReview of opportunitiesFusion of AIPotential of AIHealth plansSpectrum of infectious diseasesDisease dynamics
2024
Estimating the lives that could be saved by expanded access to weight-loss drugs
Pandey A, Ye Y, Wells C, Singer B, Galvani A. Estimating the lives that could be saved by expanded access to weight-loss drugs. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2024, 121: e2412872121. PMID: 39405358, PMCID: PMC11513960, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2412872121.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGlucagon-like peptide-1Body mass index categoriesObesity prevalence dataGlucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonistsHazard ratio of mortalityRatio of mortalityPublic health impactWeight loss drugsInsurance coverage issuesGastric inhibitory polypeptideHealthcare accessType 2 diabetesUnited StatesPublic health crisisObesity epidemicReceptor agonistsIndex categoriesHazard ratioPrevalence dataInhibitory polypeptidePeptide-1Health impactsNovel treatmentObesityHealth crisisThe futility of economic sanctions in a globalized and interdependent world: a data-driven game theoretical study
Ye Y, Zhang Q. The futility of economic sanctions in a globalized and interdependent world: a data-driven game theoretical study. Humanities And Social Sciences Communications 2024, 11: 1034. DOI: 10.1057/s41599-024-03518-z.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchGame-theoretic frameworkEconomic sanctionsCountry's capabilityInternational trade dataGame-theoretic studyEconomic opennessTrade dataInternational tradeTrade relationshipsVulnerable economiesGiant economiesPolitical stabilityEconomic interdependenceSanction riskPolitical conflictReal world conflictsInterdependent worldSanctionsEconomyTheoretical frameworkConflictCountriesData-driven evidenceIneffective strategiesTradeSupply chain loss from easingCOVID-19 restrictions: anevolutionary economic-epidemiological modelling study
Ye Y, Cao Z, Zeng D, Zhang Q. Supply chain loss from easingCOVID-19 restrictions: anevolutionary economic-epidemiological modelling study. Proceedings Of The Royal Society A 2024, 480: 20230803. DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2023.0803.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchGlobal supply networksSupply chain lossesSupply networkProfitability of firmsSupply-chain disruptionsSupply chainReal worldSupply-chainMacroeconomic dataGlobal economyHuman movementFirmsCOVID-19 pandemicChain lossNetworkReopening scenariosCOVID-19Restrictive countriesCountriesStringent control measuresProfit
2023
Identification of Key Influencers for Secondary Distribution of HIV Self-Testing Kits Among Chinese Men Who Have Sex With Men: Development of an Ensemble Machine Learning Approach
Jing F, Ye Y, Zhou Y, Ni Y, Yan X, Lu Y, Ong J, Tucker J, Wu D, Xiong Y, Xu C, He X, Huang S, Li X, Jiang H, Wang C, Dai W, Huang L, Mei W, Cheng W, Zhang Q, Tang W. Identification of Key Influencers for Secondary Distribution of HIV Self-Testing Kits Among Chinese Men Who Have Sex With Men: Development of an Ensemble Machine Learning Approach. Journal Of Medical Internet Research 2023, 25: e37719. PMID: 37995110, PMCID: PMC10704319, DOI: 10.2196/37719.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHuman identification approachMachine learning modelsLearning modelsMachine learning approachLearning approachEnsemble learning algorithmHuman identificationEnsemble learning modelMachine learning classificationEnsemble machine learning approachIdentification approachSecondary distribution of HIVST kitsDistribution of HIVST kitsHIV self-testingFirst-time testingLearning algorithmsAverage accuracyLearning classificationPerformance evaluationHIVST kitsSocial networksSimulation experimentsDistribution of HIV self-testing kitsMachineHIV self-test kitsTravel restrictions cannot prevent the introduction of new COVID variants
Zhang Q, Ye Y, Zeng D. Travel restrictions cannot prevent the introduction of new COVID variants. Journal Of Travel Medicine 2023, 30: taad066. PMID: 37195279, DOI: 10.1093/jtm/taad066.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCross-platform Product Matching Based on Knowledge Graph
Liu W, Pan J, Zhang X, Gong X, Ye Y, Zhao X, Wang X, Wu K, Xiang H, Zhang Q. Cross-platform Product Matching Based on Knowledge Graph. Communications In Computer And Information Science 2023, 1784: 45-48. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-1354-1_5.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCross-platform product matching based on entity alignment of knowledge graph with raea model
Liu W, Pan J, Zhang X, Gong X, Ye Y, Zhao X, Wang X, Wu K, Xiang H, Yan H, Zhang Q. Cross-platform product matching based on entity alignment of knowledge graph with raea model. World Wide Web 2023, 26: 2215-2235. DOI: 10.1007/s11280-022-01134-y.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchEntity alignmentGraph attention networkRelation-aware graph attention networkAttention networkDataset DBP15KTwo-stage pipelineEntity representationsProduct matchingKnowledge graphCompetitive resultsSource codeMatching problemEA methodExperimental resultsNetworkEA taskFilterMatched productsAlignment signalMatchingTriplesEncodingGitHubEntitiesEBayFuture trajectory of respiratory infections following the COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong
Cheng W, Zhou H, Ye Y, Chen Y, Jing F, Cao Z, Zeng D, Zhang Q. Future trajectory of respiratory infections following the COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong. Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal Of Nonlinear Science 2023, 33: 013124. PMID: 36725657, DOI: 10.1063/5.0123870.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
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