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Name
Jacob Ismail Irunde

Academic Rank
Senior Lecturer

Department
Mathematics, Physics, and Informatics

Biography

Biography

Dr Irunde is a Senior lecturer at Mkwawa University College of Education, A constituent College of University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. He owns Bachelor of Education in Science and Master of Science in Mathematical Modelling from the University of Dar es Salaam. He also owns PhD in Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences from the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha-Tanzania. His areas of specialization include Epidemiological and Ecological Modelling. At Mkwawa University College of Education, he teaches courses in mathematics which include: Ordinary differential equations, Biomathematics, Linear Algebra I, Calculus of several variables and Complex Analysis I. 

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Email:

Email Address
ismail.irunde@muce.ac.tz

Research Interest

Research Interest
Epidemiological and Ecological Modeling

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Projects

Projects

Dynamical modelling of Salmonellosis in humans and dairy cattle with temperature and pH effects

The Role of Human Immune Status on the Transmission Dynamics of Cryptosporidiosis in Humans and Cattle

The Impact of Contaminated Environment on Dynamics of Marburg Virus Disease in Humans

Publications

Publications

  • Stephano, M. A., Mayengo, M. M., & Irunde, J. I. (2024). The role of asymptomatic carriers on the dynamics of a lymphatic filariasis model incorporating control strategies. Results in Control and Optimization, 15, 100425.

  • Irunde, J. I., & Luhanda, F. B. (2023). Taenia solium taeniasis and cysticercosis: extinction or outbreak. Animal Diseases, 3(1), 1-14.

  • Stephano, M. A., Irunde, J. I., Mwasunda, J. A., and Chacha, C. S. (2022). A continuous time Markov chain model for the dynamics of bovine tuberculosis in humans and cattle. Ricerche di Matematica, 1-27.

  • Mwasunda, J. A., Irunde, J. I., Kajunguri, D., and Kuznetsov, D. (2022). Outbreak or Extinction of Bovine Cysticercosis and Human Taeniasis: A Stochastic Modelling Approach.  Applied Mathematical Modelling.

  • Mwasunda, J. A., Irunde, J. I., Kajunguri, D.,and Kuznetsov, D. (2022). Optimal control analysis of Taenia saginata bovine cysticercosis and human taeniasis. Parasite Epidemiology and Control, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.parepi.2021.e00236

  • Mwasunda, J. A., Irunde, J. I., Kajunguri, D., and Kuznetsov, D. (2021). Modeling and analysis of taeniasis and cysticercosis transmission dynamics in humans, pigs and cattle. Advances in Difference Equations, 2021(1), 1-23

  • Shirima Sabini, T., Ismail Irunde, J., and Kuznetsov, D. (2020). Modeling the Transmission Dynamics of Bovine Tuberculosis.  International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences, 2020.