Wei-Ming Jiang

jiangwming@gmail.com

I am interested in applying my expertise in geography and epidemiology to investigate the spatiotemporal dynamics of infectious diseases and understand the social, economic, and environmental drivers of population health.

Experience

Research assistant

Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes

My primary duties involve assisting in the execution of research projects, which include developing and applying mathematical models and deep learning models, preparing manuscripts, and publishing peer-reviewed articles. I also collaborate with colleagues from diverse backgrounds in designing transmission models, such as SEIR models for COVID-19, and linking spatially referenced and socio-economic data with health data. Additionally, I support postgraduate students in learning R and Python programming languages as well as statistical methods, such as time series models.

September 2021 - May 2025

Teaching assistant

Spatial Analysis (Undergraduate Course)

February 2021 - June 2021

Part-time assistant

Research Project: An Early Warning Framework for International Spread of Infectious Diseases: Assessing Disease Importation Risk in Taiwan and East Asian Regions

September 2019 - June 2021

Teaching assistant

Spatial Analysis (Undergraduate Course)

February 2020 - June 2020

Teaching assistant

The Global Positioning System (Undergraduate Course)

February 2019 - June 2019

Part-time assistant

Research Project: From Skills to Literacy: Applying Connectivism in the Teaching Design of the "Global Positioning System" Curriculum

September 2018 - June 2019

Teaching assistant

Multivariate Analysis (Graduate Course)

September 2018 - January 2019

Teaching assistant

The Global Positioning System (Undergraduate Course)

February 2018 - June 2018

Education

National Taiwan University

Master of Science
Department of Geography
September 2019 - June 2021

National Taiwan Normal University

Bachelor of Arts
Department of Geography
September 2015 - February 2019

Skills

Language

Chinese, Taiwanese, English

Geographic information system (GIS)

ArcGIS Pro, QGIS

Programming Languages & Tools

R, Python, MySQL, HTML, CSS

Statistical software

SPSS, MATLAB

Microsoft Office

Word, PowerPoint, Excel

Analysis methods

Spatial-temporal analysis, Network analysis, Multivariate analysis, Mathematical models, Time series models, Machine learning models, Deep learning models

Awards & Certifications

  • 2025 National Health Research Institutes Excellent Research Assistant Award
  • 2024 Government Scholarship to Study Abroad by the Ministry of Education, Republic of China (Taiwan)
  • 2021 The Excellence Award for Master's Thesis, the Chinese Regional Science Association-Taiwan
  • 2019 The Excellence Award for Teaching Assistant of Spatial Analysis, Department of Geography, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
  • 2018 Research Grant Programme for University Students, the National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan

Publications

Excess Mortality and Containment Performance During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence From 34 Countries

C Cheng, H-Y Wu, S-C Kuo, B Fan, Y-T Hsu, Y-K Chen, B Fan, Y-A Jang, C-F Hung, W-M Jiang, H-Y Chiou, W J. Chen, and H-H Tsou.
American Journal of Public Health 115, 1518_1528, https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2025.308136

August 2025

Identifying Subtypes of Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies Based on Clinical Manifestations and Myositis Autoantibodies Using Hierarchical Cluster Analysis: A 20-Year Cohort Study in Taiwan

Jiang W-M, Tsou H-H, Wang C-Y, Wang P-Y, Sung W-Y, Ou T-T, Wu C-C, Tseng C-C, Chen P-P, Tsai J-J and Yen J-H.
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5140923 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5140923

February 2025

Suppression of the alpha, delta, and omicron variants of SARS-Cov-2 in Taiwan

Tsou H-H, Lee F-J, Wu S-I, Fan B, Wu H-Y, Lin Y-H, Hsu Y-T, Cheng C, Cheng Y-C, Jiang W-M, Chiou H-Y et al.
PLoS ONE 19(3): e0300303. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0300303

March 2024

Interregional mobility in different age groups is associated with COVID-19 transmission in the Taipei metropolitan area, Taiwan

Jiang, WM., Wen, TH., Huang, YC. et al.
Scientific Reports 13, 17285. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-44474-z

October 2023

Real-time forecasting of COVID-19 spread according to protective behavior and vaccination: autoregressive integrated moving average models

Cheng, C., Jiang, WM., Fan, B. et al.
BMC Public Health 23, 1500. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-16419-8

August 2023

Using the Internet Volume in Southeast Asia to Predict the Imported Risk of Dengue Fever in Taiwan: a Deep Learning Model

Jiang, Wei-Ming and Wen, Tzai-Hung (Supervisor)
Master Thesis. https://hdl.handle.net/11296/7pazj6

June 2021

Spatial Correlation Between Drug Crime Hotspots and Environmental Factors in the Taipei Metropolitan Area, Taiwan

Jiang, Wei-Ming and Chang, Kuo-Chen (Supervisor)
Research Grant Programme for University Students from the National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan

February 2019

Conferences

2025 National Health Research Institutes Excellent Research Assistant Award

Jiang Wei-Ming# and Tsou Hsiao-Hui* (#Presenter, *Corresponding author)
2025 National Health Research Institutes Research Day

National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Miaoli County, Taiwan

March 25-26 2025

Long-distance interregional commuting in different age groups is associated with COVID 19 transmission in the Taipei metropolitan area, Taiwan

Jiang WM#, Wen TH, Huang YC, Chiou HY, Chen WJ, Hsiung CA, Sytwu HK, Tsou HH* (#Presenter, *Corresponding author)
2023 Biomedical Research Symposium of National Health Research Institutes

National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Miaoli County, Taiwan

August 8-9 2023

Using the Internet Volume in Southeast Asia Countries to Predict the Temporal of Imported Dengue Cases in Taiwan: Long Short-term memory networks

Jiang Wei-Ming# and Wen Tzai-Hung* (#Presenter, *Corresponding author)
2021 Annual Meeting and Academic Conference of the Geography Society of China

National Changhua University of Education, Changhua County, Changhua City, Taiwan

May 29 2021

Using the Internet Volume in Southeast Asia Countries to Predict the Temporal of Imported Dengue Cases in Taiwan: Long Short-term memory networks

Jiang Wei-Ming# and Wen Tzai-Hung* (#Presenter, *Corresponding author)
25th International Geographical Conference of Taiwan

National Taiwan Normal University Heping Campus Ⅰ, Da’an District Taipei City, Taiwan

May 22-23 2021

Spatial Correlation Between Drug Crime Hotspots and Environmental Factors in the Taipei Metropolitan Area, Taiwan

Jiang Wei-Ming# and Chang, Kuo-Chen* (#Presenter, *Corresponding author)
23th International Geographical Conference of Taiwan

National Taiwan Normal University Heping Campus Ⅰ, Da’an District Taipei City, Taiwan

May 26-27 2018