Feng Fu
Assistant Professor of MathematicsAdjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science
My background in applied math and training in mathematical biology enable me to do interdisciplinary work, ranging from natural sciences to social sciences to biomedical sciences. My research combines mathematical modeling approaches with analyses of experimental and observational data, for a better understanding of (1) the evolution of cooperation, (2) behavior-disease interactions, and (3) cancer evolution. My previous work covers a wide range of important topics in mathematical biology, with a particular emphasis on social networks, human behavior and public health, including the evolution of cooperation in dynamical social networks, the evolution of in-group favoritism, the evolution of homophily, and imitation behavior of vaccination and its impact on public health. At the moment, my research is mainly focused on stochastic modeling of cancer evolution and infectious diseases as well as on the emergence of drug resistance, with particular respects to cancer and HIV treatments.
Department(s):
Mathematics
Quantitative Social Science
Education:
B.S. Fudan University, 2004
Ph.D. Peking University, 2010
Selected Publications
Feng Fu, Nicholas A. Christakis, James H. Fowler (2017). Dueling biological and social contagions. Scientific Reports, 7: 43634. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep43634
Te Wu, Long Wang, Feng Fu (2017). Coevolutionary dynamics of phenotypic diversity and contingent cooperation. PLoS Computational Biology 13: e1005363. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005363
Feng Fu, Sarah D. Kocher, Martin A. Nowak (2015). The risk-return trade-off between solitary and eusocial reproduction. Ecology Letters, 18: 74-84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.12392
Feng Fu, Martin A. Nowak, Sebastian Bonhoeffer (2015). Spatial heterogeneity in drug concentrations can facilitate the emergence of resistance to cancer therapy. PLoS Computational Biology,11(3): e1004142. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004142
Alison L. Hill, Daniel I. S. Rosenbloom, Feng Fu, Martin A. Nowak, RF Siliciano (2014). Predicting outcomes of treatments to eradicate the HIV latent reservoir. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111: 13475-13480. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1406663111
Hirokazu Shirado, Feng Fu, James H. Fowler, Nicholas A. Christakis (2013). Quality versus Quantity of Social Ties in Experimental Cooperative Networks. Nature Communications, 4: 2814. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms3814
Feng Fu, Martin A. Nowak, Nicholas A. Christakis, James H. Fowler (2012). The Evolution of Homophily. Scientific Reports, 2: 845 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep00845
Feng Fu, Corina E. Tarnita, Nicholas A. Christakis, Long Wang, David G. Rand, Martin A. Nowak (2012). Evolution of in-group favoritism. Scientific Reports, 2: 460. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep00460
Feng Fu, Daniel I. Rosenbloom, Long Wang, Martin A. Nowak (2011). Imitation dynamics of vaccination behaviour on social networks. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 278: 42-49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.1107
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