Precision Medicine Kevin Flores
Associate Professor, Mathematics
Kevin Flores joined NC State in August 2015 as a Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program cluster hire in Precision Medicine. He is an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics and is a member of the Center for Quantitative Sciences in Biomedicine and the Center for Research in Scientific Computation. Flores’ research focuses on mathematical modeling, optimal experimental design and uncertainty quantification with applications to precision medicine, systems and synthetic biology, and environmental toxicology.
He earned a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow in NC State’s Department of Mathematics. He was a postdoctoral associate in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University and a bioinformatician in the Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics at the Mayo Clinic. Flores’ publications have appeared in mathematical and biological journals. He is a Principal Investigator on a project funded by the National Science Foundation Mathematical Biology program. Flores earned a bachelor of science in mathematics from the College of Creative Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara.
