Associate Professor, Department of Statistical Sciences, and School of the Environment
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Cross-Appointments
Department of Statistical Sciences
Fields of Study
- Environmental Data Science
- Pollution & Air Quality
- Remote Sensing
Areas of Interest
- Areas of Interest
- Spatial Statistics
- Time Series
- Machine Learning
Biography
Meredith Franklin studied mathematics (B.Sc. McGill 2001), statistics (M.Sc. Carleton 2003) and environmental statistics (Ph.D. Harvard 2007). Before coming to the University of Toronto she was faculty at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Her research interests are at the intersection of statistics, data science, and the environment with the goal of better quantifying and understanding how the environment affects human health. She specializes in spatio-temporal methods for ground-level measurements and remote sensing data to characterize environmental factors such as air pollution, climate, and the built environment.
Awards
- 2027 Research Grant National Institute of Health
Publications
- Outdoor artificial light at night, air pollution, and risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia in the California Linkage Study of Early-Onset Cancers ( : 2023)
- Spatial Variation in Humidity and the Onset of Seasonal Influenza Across the Contiguous United States ( : 2022)
- Generating Fine-Scale Aerosol Data through Downscaling with an Artificial Neural Network Enhanced with Transfer Learning ( : 2022)
- Social inequality influences the impact of household air pollution on birth outcomes ( : 2022)
- Exposure models for particulate matter elemental concentrations in Southern California ( : 2022)
- A Review of Road Traffic-Derived Non-Exhaust Particles: Emissions, Physicochemical Characteristics, Health Risks, and Mitigation Measures ( : 2022)
- Estimating traffic noise over a large urban area: An evaluation of methods ( : 2022)