Who is the 27-year-old China guy who built the most accurate COVID-19 prediction model?

The 27-year-old China guy who built the most accurate COVID-19 prediction model is Gu Youyang.

Gu Youyang comes from a China immigrant family in the United States and grew up in Illinois and California.

Gu liked math and science since he was a child, and he didn't really come into contact with computer science until he graduated from high school. And he can enter this industry thanks to his father, because his father is a computer practitioner.

Both Gu and Master studied at MIT, where he received double bachelor's degrees in computer science and mathematics, and a master's degree in computer science. After graduation, he continued to study in the NLP group of the famous CSAIL laboratory of MIT for one year, and published a paper in EMNLP 20 16 in the same year.

Extended data:

The 27-year-old China guy became famous in the first world war.

The time goes back to the beginning of last year. At that time, the epidemic had spread around the world, so the public tried to predict the impact of the next epidemic by modeling.

Most people turn their attention to the forecasting system established by two professional organizations, namely, the Imperial College London in London and the Seattle Institute of Health Indicators and Evaluation (IHME).

However, the predictions given by the two institutions are quite different:

London, Imperial College London, London: By summer, the death toll in COVID-19 will reach 2 million. IHME: It is estimated that by August, the death toll will reach 60,000. (It turned out that the death toll was 1.6 million. )

This attracted the attention of Youyanggu, who was only 26 years old at that time. Although he has no medical or epidemiological experience, he firmly believes that data prediction will be of great use at this time. So, around mid-April, Gu Youyang stayed at home for a week, and created his own predictor and a website that can display relevant information.