Pranav is a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Veterinary Medicine in University of California, Davis working on spatio-temporal modeling of the zoonotic spillover of Arenavirus infections in humans. His work involves the development of epidemiological tools that predict the outbreak of Arenaviral hemorrhagic fever in response to climate change. Development of these tools use cutting-edge ML/AI ensemble algorithms that can be leveraged with high accuracy to predict the effects of changes in climate and species distribution patterns of rodent reservoirs for Arenaviruses. Being a PhD in animal health economics and epidemiology, he also has research interests in the economic burden of such zoonotic infections on public health infrastructure and decision support. He has a background in quantitative veterinary epidemiology, animal health economics, dairy herd management, and decision optimization.