{"id":2,"date":"2012-09-04T13:39:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T17:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/template\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-09-21T14:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T18:45:19","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/malachi-vaughn\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\n<div class=\"container px-0\">\n\n    <div class=\"row align-items-start\">\n        <div class=\"col-12\">\n\n            \n            <h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Malachi Vaughn<\/h1>\n            \n\n            \n            <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:1.2em; margin-bottom:1.5rem;\">\n                PhD Student in Mathematics at the University of Florida\n            <\/p>\n            \n\n            <div style=\"float:right; width:383px; max-width:40%; margin:0 0 25px 35px;\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\"\n        src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/malachi-vaughn\/files\/Buenos-Aires-Ship-scaled.jpg\"\n        alt=\"Malachi Vaughn in Buenos Aires\"\n        style=\"display:block; width:100%; height:auto;\"\n    >\n<\/div>\n\n            \n            <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About Me<\/h2>\n            \n\n            \n            <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n                I am a PhD student in Mathematics at the University of Florida. My main interests\n                are in applied mathematics and mathematical biology, especially using mathematical\n                and computational models to study infectious diseases!\n            <\/p>\n            \n\n            \n            <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n                I graduated from Barrett, The Honors College at Arizona State University in 2025\n                with a B.S. in Computational Mathematical Sciences, where I worked with\n                Taylor Hines and Joan Ponce. I was also an undergraduate researcher in the Quantitative Research\n                in the Life and Social Sciences Program (QRLSSP) in 2023.\n            <\/p>\n            \n\n            \n            <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n                In 2024, I conducted research abroad for my honors thesis in collaboration with\n                Dr. Ilaria Dorigatti at Imperial College London and Dr. Mercedes Mill\u00e1n at the\n                University of Buenos Aires. That work focused on epidemic modeling in urban\n                transportation systems and developed my interest in applying disease model to real world systems.\n            <\/p>\n            \n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <div class=\"row mt-4\">\n        <div class=\"col-12\">\n\n            \n            <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Current Research<\/h2>\n            \n\n            \n            <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n                At UF, I am part of an interdisciplinary T32 training program where I work on\n                problems connecting mathematics, epidemiology, and biomedical science. My current\n                project focuses on mathematical modeling of malaria transmission and transmission-blocking vaccination.\n            <\/p>\n            \n\n            \n            <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n                I am particularly interested in how processes at different biological\n                scales fit together. For malaria, this includes within-host infection dynamics,\n                human infectiousness, mosquito transmission, immunity, and the effects of\n                vaccination.\n            <\/p>\n            \n\n            \n            <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n                I am also continuing work on spatial epidemic models involving human movement and\n                transportation networks. In particular, I am interested in models where time spent\n                traveling is treated explicitly rather than simply being absorbed into movement\n                between geographic patches.\n            <\/p>\n            \n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <div class=\"row mt-4\">\n        <div class=\"col-12\">\n\n            \n            <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Interests<\/h2>\n            \n\n            \n            <ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n                <li>Mathematical Biology<\/li>\n                <li>Infectious Disease Modeling<\/li>\n                <li>Malaria Transmission Dynamics<\/li>\n                <li>Spatial and Multi-Patch Epidemic Models<\/li>\n                <li>Within-Host and Multiscale Modeling<\/li>\n                <li>Computational Modeling<\/li>\n            <\/ul>\n            \n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <div class=\"row mt-4\">\n        <div class=\"col-12\">\n\n            \n            <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Background<\/h2>\n            \n\n            \n            <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n                My parents are originally from the Houston area, but I spent the first fifteen\n                years of my life living in several cities in eastern China before moving to the\n                Phoenix area in 2019. Living in different countries growing up is a big part of\n                why I am interested in international research and would like to continue working\n                abroad throughout my career!\n            <\/p>\n            \n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <div class=\"row mt-4\">\n        <div class=\"col-12\">\n\n            \n            <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact<\/h2>\n            \n\n            \n            <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n                <strong>Email:<\/strong>\n                <a href=\"mailto:malachi.vaughn@ufl.edu\">malachi.vaughn@ufl.edu<\/a><br>\n                <strong>Phone:<\/strong> (480) 679-0726<br>\n                <strong>Office:<\/strong> Little Hall, University of Florida\n            <\/p>\n            \n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/malachi-vaughn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/malachi-vaughn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/malachi-vaughn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/malachi-vaughn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/malachi-vaughn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/malachi-vaughn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/malachi-vaughn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/malachi-vaughn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}