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Eugene Tan

Eugene Tan is a Research Officer at The Kids Research Institute Australia. He is an applied mathematician with a background in agent-based models, time series analysis and embedding theory

Eugene Tan

Research Officer

B Sc. MPE.

eugene.tan@thekids.org.au

Eugene is an applied mathematician with a background in agent-based models, time series analysis and embedding theory. He has an MPE in mechanical engineering from the University of Western Australia and is currently completing a PhD in applied mathematics with the UWA Complex Systems Group under the supervision of Prof. Michael Small. His current research focuses on the use of network theory to develop new analysis methods for improved forecasting of time series. Eugene is interested the study of emergent dynamics in complex systems, with a particular focus on disease spread on social networks

Published research

Replicating hypergraph disease dynamics with lower-order interactions

Disease spreading models such as the ubiquitous SIS compartmental model and its numerous variants are widely used to understand and predict the behavior of a given epidemic or information diffusion process. A common approach to imbue more realism to the spreading process is to constrain simulations to a network structure, where connected nodes update their disease state based on pairwise interactions along the edges of their local neighborhood. 

Published research Infectious Diseases Immune system Geospatial Mapping Child Health Analytics
Learn more about Replicating hypergraph disease dynamics with lower-order interactions

February 2026

Education and Qualifications

BSc (Engineering Science and Mathematics & Statistics)

MPE (Mechanical Engineering)

Awards/Honours

2022-2024 – A.F. Pillow Applied Mathematics Top-Up Scholarship

2021-2024 – Robert and Maude Gledden Research Scholarship

2016-2020 – BHP Engineering Scholar