Lilia Leticia Ramírez Ramírez
ACADEMIC EDUCATION
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2003-2008. Ph.D. (Statistics). Thesis: "On the dynamics of infectious diseases in non-homogeneous populations".
University of Waterloo. Canada.
Supervisor: Dr. Mary E. Thompson.
1997-2000. M.Sc. (Statistics). Thesis: “Statistic Inference of Plants’ DNA using Flow Citometry” (in Spanish).
University of Guanajuato (UG) / Centre for Mathematical Research (CIMAT), Guanajuato, Mexico.
Supervisor: Dr. Eloísa Díaz Francés Murgía.
1992–1996. B.Sc. (Actuarial Science). Thesis: “Some Generalizations of the Law of Large Numbers and the Borel-Cantelli Lemma”(in Spanish).
Autonomous National University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico.
Supervisor: Dr. Begoña Fernández Fernández.
November 1994-October 1995. Courses of Introduction to Personal Computers, Programming
Techniques, and C Programming Language. (100 hrs).
Academic Computing Centre, UNAM, Mexico.
PROFESIONAL EXPERIENCE
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Posdoctoral Researcher
• Since January 2009. Working in a joint project with Infonaut Inc. the Region of Peel (Public Health),
and the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion (OAHPP).
University of Waterloo. Canada.
Course Instructor
• Fall terms 2004 and 2006. Lecturer of Stat 202/204 and Stat 203. University of Waterloo.
Canada.
Research Assistant
• Winter Term 2005. Project: Forecasting of some annual incidence health rates on the region of
Waterloo. Joint project with the Public Health office in the region. Under the supervision of Dr.
Mary Thompson, University of Waterloo. Canada.
• October–December 2000. Project: Edition of class notes on Probability and Statistics for
students in the Master program of Computer Sciences. Under the supervision of Dr. Johan Van
Horebeek. CIMAT. Mexico.
Regional Researcher
• February 2001-August 2003. In the department of Regional Research we analysed
demographical, economical and sociological information of the state of Guanajuato. We also
organized and analyzed two surveys. One was oriened to study the durg habits among teenagers,
and the other one explored some economical ans well-bein characteristics of families with at least one member who
had migrated to the U.S.A.
Population Council of Guanajuato. Government of the State of Guanajuato. Mexico.
Teaching Assistant
• Fall 2003 – Spring 2008. Teaching Assistant in courses such as: Stat 206, Stat 331, Math 118,
Stat 231, and Stat 230. University of Waterloo. Canada.
• Semester 2003-I, 1998-II and 2000-I. Teaching assistant for graduate and undergraduate
classes of Statistical Inference III (Statistical Inference in Science) and Statistics and Probability
Elements. Course instructors: Dr. Miguel Nakamura Savoy and Dr. David A. Sprott. UG-CIMAT.
Mexico.
• Nov 1996-April 1997. Teaching assistant with 2 weekly hours of problems laboratory.
Undergraduate class of Probability II. Faculty of Sciences. UNAM. Mexico.
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
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• Ramírez-Ramírez, L. L. and Thompson, M. E. (Submitted to Advances in Applied Probability).
Infectious diseases on networks.
• Ramírez-Ramírez, L. L. and Thompson, M. E. (Submitted to Advances in Applied Probability).
Infectious diseases on hierarchical networks.
• Ramírez-Ortegon, M. A., Tapia, E.,Ramírez-Ramírez, L. L., Cuevas, E. and Rojas, R.(2009).
A new binarization method based in edge detection and gray-intensit histograms. Pattern Recognition.
• Chávez-Hernández, A. M., Macías-García, L. F., Ramírez, L. and Palatto-Merino, H. (2004).
Epidemiología del suicidio en el estado de Guanajuato. Salud Mental, 27 (2):15-20.
BOOK CHAPTERS
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• Chávez Hernández, A. M., Macías García, L. F. Ramírez Ramírez, L. y Palatto Merino, H.
(2003). Capítulo 1: Datos epidemiológicos sobre suicidio consumado en el Estado de
Guanajuato. In: Chávez Hernández, y Macías García, Ed (2003). El fenómeno del suicidio en el
Estado de Guanajuato. Ed. Universidad de Guanajuato.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
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•Anvari, V., Atapour, M., Bourouiba. L., Caudillo Mata, L. A., Collinson S., Johnson, A.,
Madras N., Miasnikof, P., Ramírez Ramírez, L.L., Sánchez-Bravo, I.
Mathematical Models for Estimating the Risk of vCJD Transmission. Report of the modelling
done during the Math-in-Medicine Study Group. OCCAM-Fields-MITACS Biomedical
Problems Solving Workshop. June 22-26, 2009, Toronto. Canada.
AWARDS, GRANTS AND RECOGNITIONS
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• September 2009 UW-Fields Postdoctoral Fellowship.
• May 2009. One-Term MITACS Accelerate Internship.
• Spring 2008. Math Graduate Experience Award.
• 2003-2006. National Council for Science and Technology grant (CONACyT grant) for graduate
students in foreign educational institutions.
• 2000. Graduated from M. Sc. program with honours for highest GPS in class.
• 1997 and 1998. CONACyT grant for Master Program of Excellence in Science and Technology.
• 1997. Graduated from the B. Sc. Program with honours.
SERVICES
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• 2006-2007. Graduate student representative in the department of Statistics and Actuarial
Science. University of Waterloo. Canada.
• April-October1996. 480 hrs of Social Service. Project: Development of periodicity criteria in
2D billiards and program algorithm to visualize the ball trajectory in polygonal billiards.
Laboratory of Mathematical Objects Visualization. Department on Mathematics. Faculty of
Science. UNAM. Mexico.
DEVELOPED FREEWARE PACKAGES
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• 2006. R package: InfNet (to update).
PRESENTATIONS
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• October 23, 2009. Ramírez Ramírez, L. L. and Thompson, M. E. “The Spread of diseases in networks“.
Invited seminar talk at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. University of Ottawa.
• May 31st -June 3rd, 2009. Ramírez Ramírez, L. L. and Thompson, M. E. “Effectiveness of
control measures for diseases that spread in populations with contact network structure”.
Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada.Vancouver, Canada.
• April 4th, 2009 . Ramírez Ramírez, L. L. “Dynamics of infectious diseases in networks”. Invited
talk to the joint Regional Quebec workshop of the Laboratory of Statistics at the Centre de
recherches mathématiques (CRM) and the SSC New Investigators Committee, Montreal,
Canada.
• June 2008. Ramírez Ramírez, L. L. and Thompson, M. E. “Outbreaks in Populations with
Contact Network Structure”. Joint Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada and the Société
Française de Statistique. Ottawa, Canada.
• June 28, 2007. Ramírez Ramírez, L. L. and Thompson, M. E. “Sobre modelos estocásticos
para brotes epidémicos en poblaciones no homogéneas” (“On Stochastic Models for Outbreaks
in non-homogeneous populations”). Seminar presentation. CIMAT, Mexico.
• June 25, 2007. Ramírez Ramírez, L. L. and Thompson, M. E. “Sobre modelos estocásticos para
brotes epidémicos en poblaciones no homogéneas”. Seminar presentation. University of
Querétaro, Mexico.
• June 2006. Ramírez Ramírez, L. L. and Thompson, M. E. Poster Presentation: “InfNet:
Simulation program for SIR-type epidemic models on contact networks”. 2006 CAIMS-MITACS
Annual Conference / 2006 Summer School on Mathematical Modeling of Infectious
Diseases. York University, Canada.
• May 23-27, 2006. Martínez Hernández, A. C., Ramírez Ramírez, L. L. and Guevara Sanguinés,
M. L. “El Trabajo Interdisciplinario en la Investigación Educativa” (“The Interdisciplinary work
in the educative research”). Segundo Congreso Internacional de Metodología de la Ciencia y
de la Investigación para la Educación. National Politechnic Institute (IPN), Mexico.
• December 7th, 2001. Ramírez Ramírez, L. L., Macias García L. F. and Ortega, L. “Propuesta
para el Análisis Estadístico de la Migración Internacional” (“A Proposed Statistic Analysis to
the Study of the International Migration”). Permanent Seminary of International Migration.
College of the North Border (COLEF). Mexico.
• September 13-15, 2000. Ramírez Ramírez, L. L.“Inferencia a Través de la Verosimilitud”
(“Statistical Inference Through Likelihood”). Week of Applied Mathematics. Autonomous
University of Aguascalientes, Mexico.