Haley Stone

I am a computational biologist (virology) focusing on graph-based models for viral host and tissue tropism. Currently, I am developing graph neural network models to predict viral tissue tropism and build large-scale virus–tissue interaction datasets using text-mining pipelines. Previously, I was a postdoctoral research associate at the School of Computer Science & Engineering, UNSW, where I developed data-integrative modelling frameworks for avian influenza in the United States. I now hold a visiting fellow position to continue this work. I completed my PhD at the Kirby Institute (UNSW), where I developed mechanistic epidemic models to evaluate COVID-19 vaccination strategies, generated synthetic contact matrices for aged-care facilities using agent-based simulation, and applied phylogenetic methods to investigate clustering in human avian influenza cases.