Publications

2025

Ye, Y., Pandey, A., Bawden, C., Sumsuzzman, D. M., Rajput, R., Shoukat, A., et al. (2025). Integrating artificial intelligence with mechanistic epidemiological modeling: a scoping review of opportunities and challenges. Nature Communications, 16(1), 1-18 (🌟Editors' Highlights). Paper.
Sumsuzzman, D. M., Ye, Y., Wang, Z., Pandey, A., Langley, J. M., Galvani, A. P., & Moghadas, S. M. (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. BMC Infectious Diseases, 25(1), 215. Paper.

Pandey, A., Ye, Y., Wells, C. R., Singer, B. H., & Galvani, A. P. (2024). Estimating the lives that could be saved by expanded access to weight-loss drugs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(43), e2412872121. Paper. Code.
Ye, Y., Zhang, Q. (2024). The futility of economic sanctions in a globalized and interdependent world: a data-driven game theoretical study. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 11, 1034. Paper. Code.
Ye, Y., Cao, Z., Zeng, D. D., & Zhang, Q. (2024). Supply chain loss from easing COVID-19 restrictions: an evolutionary economic-epidemiological modelling study. Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 480, 20230803 (🌟Cover feature). Paper. Code.

Jing, F., Ye, Y. (joint first author), Zhou, Y., Ni, Y., Yan, X., Lu, Y., et al. (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. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 25, e37719. Paper.
Zhang, Q., Ye, Y. (joint first author), Zeng, D. D. (2023). Travel restrictions cannot prevent the introduction of new COVID variants. Journal of Travel Medicine. Paper. Code.
Liu, W., Pan, J., Zhang, X., Gong, X., Ye, Y., Zhao, X., et al. (2023). Cross-platform product matching based on entity alignment of knowledge graph with RAEA model. World Wide Web. 10.1007/s11280-022-01134-y. Paper.
Cheng, W., Zhou, H., Ye, Y., Chen, Y., Jing, F., Cao, Z., Zeng, D. D., & Zhang, Q. (2023). Future Trajectory of Respiratory Infections Following the COVID-19 Pandemic in Hong Kong. Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 33(1), 013124. Paper.

Ye, Y., Ni, K., Jing, F., Zhou, Y., Tang, W., & Zhang, Q. (2022). Model-Informed Targeted Network Interventions on Social Networks Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in Zhuhai, China. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems. Paper.
Ye, Y., Zhang, Q., Cao, Z., Chen, F. Y., Yan, H., Stanley, H. E., & Zeng, D. D. (2022). Impacts of Export Restrictions on the Global Personal Protective Equipment Trade Network During COVID‐19. Advanced Theory and Simulations, 5(4), 2100352 (🌟Inner-cover feature). Paper.
Ye, Y., Zhang, Q., Wei, X., Cao, Z., Yuan, H. Y., & Zeng, D. D. (2022). Equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines makes a life-saving difference to all countries. Nature Human Behaviour, 6(2), 207-216 (🌟Cover feature). Paper. Code.
Jing, F., Ye, Y. (joint first author), Zhou, Y., Zhou, H., Xu, Z., Lu, Y., et al. (2022). Modelling the geographical spread of HIV among MSM in Guangdong, China: a metapopulation model considering the impact of pre-exposure prophylaxis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 380(2214), 20210126. Paper.

Ye, Y., Zhang, Q., Cao, Z., & Zeng, D. D. (2021). Optimal vaccination program for two infectious diseases with cross-immunity spreading on a network. Europhysics Letters, 133(4), 46001 (🌟Editor's pick). Paper. Code.
Ye, Y., & Zhang, Q. (2021, August). Product Clustering Analysis Based on the Retail Product Knowledge Graph. In Asia-Pacific Web (APWeb) and Web-Age Information Management (WAIM) Joint International Conference on Web and Big Data (pp. 37-40). Springer, Singapore. Paper.

Ye, Y., Zhang, Q., Ruan, Z., Cao, Z., Xuan, Q., & Zeng, D. D. (2020). Effect of heterogeneous risk perception on information diffusion, behavior change, and disease transmission. Physical Review E, 102(4), 042314. Paper.