November 10, 2015
Samuel Kou is one of the co-authors of "Accurate estimation of influenza epidemics using Google search data via ARGO", which just appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Media coverage includes the Harvard Gazette, Ars Technica, SINC (in Spanish), Rue89 (in French) and Forschung Aktuell (in German). The paper is also featured in PNAS' New & Newsworthy column. Samuel's collaborators are Shihao Yang, a Ph.D. candidate in the Statistics Department, and Mauricio Santillana, a lecturer in applied mathematics at Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.