Austin G. Meyer

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Biography

I am a physician-scientist currently appointed as an Assistant Professor at Baylor College of Medicine and serving as a Pediatric Hospitalist at McLane Children's Hospital (Baylor Scott & White Health). I also work intermittently as an Adult Hospitalist with Baylor Scott & White Health in Austin and Temple. Additionally, I am a core faculty member of the pediatric residency and the associate director for the Temple campus of the BCM global health pathway. I also serve as the Statistical Editor for Pediatrics Open Science, an American Academy of Pediatrics journal.

My research focuses on leveraging machine learning techniques to predict and understand virus evolution and epidemiology. I collaborate with teams from Northeastern University and Harvard School of Public Health, with current projects centered on influenza hospitalization forecasting for the CDC's FluSight project and on developing explainable machine learning approaches to characterize influenza antigenic evolution and inform vaccine strain selection.

Previously, I was an Instructor at Harvard Medical School and a combined Internal Medicine and Pediatric Hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Boston Children's Hospital. I completed a combined residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at The Ohio State University and Nationwide Children's Hospital where I concurrently completed an HIV Medicine certification and an advanced competency in Global Health.

During my graduate and postdoctoral studies, I investigated viral evolution, protein molecular evolution, and protein structural biology. I hold a PhD in Computational Biochemistry from the University of Texas at Austin, an MD from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, and three master's degrees in Analytics, Public Health, and Biotechnology respectively.

Data Science Hospital Medicine Infectious Diseases Evolution Epidemiology Statistics Health Informatics

Education / Training

Fellowship, Adult and Pediatric Infectious Diseases (incomplete)

07/21–11/21 | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA

  • Left after 5 months

Residency, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics

2017–2021 | Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH

  • Advanced Competency: Global Health (Experience: St. Damien Children's Hospital, Port-au-Prince, HT)
  • HIV Medicine Specialist (AAHIVS)

Doctor of Philosophy, Biochemistry

2010–2014 | University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

  • Focus: Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
  • Mentor: Claus O. Wilke, PhD
  • Dissertation: 'The Role of Structure in Protein Evolution'

Doctor of Medicine

2012–2017 | Texas Tech University HSC, Lubbock, TX

Master of Science, Analytics

2019–2024 | Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

  • Track: Analytical Tools
  • Mentor: Mauricio Santillana, PhD

Master of Public Health

2015–2017 | University of North Texas HSC, Fort Worth, TX

  • Practicum: CDC, Influenza Division

Master of Science, Biotechnology

2008–2010 | Texas Tech University HSC, Lubbock, TX

  • Track: Biomedical Research
  • Mentor: R. Bryan Sutton, PhD

Bachelor of Science, Physics (Minor: Mathematics)

2003–2008 | Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy (Minor: Mathematics)

2003–2008 | Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

Graduate Coursework in Philosophy

2012–2014 | Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

Work History

Attending Pediatric Hospitalist

09/24–Present | Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine, Baylor Scott and White, McLane Children's Hospital, Temple, TX

PRN Hospitalist

09/24–Present | Division of Inpatient Medicine, Baylor Scott and White Health, Austin, TX

Visiting Scholar/Data Scientist

01/22–Present | Department of Physics and the Network Science Institute, Santillana Lab, Northeastern University, Boston, MA

Medical Director

01/24–08/24 | Division of Infectious Disease Prevention, Texas Department of State Health Services, Austin, TX

Attending Pediatric Hospitalist (part time)

01/23–08/24 | Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine, Baylor Scott and White, McLane Children's Hospital, Temple, TX

Attending Hospitalist

06/23–01/24 | Division of Inpatient Medicine, Baylor Scott and White Health, Austin, TX

Attending Hospitalist

12/22–06/23 | TeamHealth, St. David's Medical Center, Austin, TX

Attending Hospitalist

01/22–11/22 | Section of Hospital Medicine, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

Attending Pediatric Hospitalist

07/22–11/22 | Division of Emergency Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital at Winchester Hospital, Boston, MA

Postdoctoral Fellow

01/15–06/15 | University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

  • Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Academic Positions

Assistant Professor

09/24–Present | Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Temple, TX

Core Faculty, Pediatrics Residency

07/25–Present | McLane Children's Hospital, Baylor Scott and White Health, Temple, TX

Associate Director, Global Health Pathway

10/24–Present | Baylor College of Medicine, Temple, TX

Statistical Editor

07/24–Present | Pediatrics Open Science, American Academy of Pediatrics, Chicago, IL

Instructor

01/22–11/22 | Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Adjunct Staff

05/22–11/22 | Division of Emergency Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA

Visiting Researcher

07/15–06/17 | University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

Teaching Experience

Lecturer, Pediatric Residency

01/23–Present | Baylor Scott and White Health, Temple, TX

  • Topic: Biostatistics and Epidemiology (EBM Series)

Lecturer, School of Medicine

2017 | Texas Tech University HSC, Lubbock, TX

  • Topic: Tropical Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses (3 lectures)

Lecturer, School of Medicine

2017 | Texas Tech University HSC, Lubbock, TX

  • Topic: Biostatistics and Epidemiology

Lecturer, School of Medicine

2016 | Texas Tech University HSC, Lubbock, TX

  • Topic: Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Review for USMLE Step 1

Publications

For a full list, please see my Google Scholar Profile.

Summary: 31 Peer Reviewed Papers | 12 First/Corresponding Author | >2000 Citations | H-index: 16

  1. Meyer AG and Santillana M. (2026) In Review

    Interpretable sequence-based machine learning consolidates candidate Influenza H3N2 hemagglutinin antigenic sites. PNAS (submitted). Preprint at bioRxiv, 2026.

  2. Meyer AG, Dewey G, Blasick S, Hovland C, and Santillana M. (2026) In Press

    Quantifying the protection gap: RSV activity outside the recommended RSV prophylaxis administration window. J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc (in press).

  3. Meyer AG. (2026) In Press

    Explainable machine learning reveals evolutionary signals in Influenza hemagglutinin. J R Soc Interface (in press). Preprint at bioRxiv, 2026.

  4. Garrido Garcia R, Clemente L, Meyer AG, Dewey G, Yang S, and Santillana M. (2026) In Press

    A prospective real-time early warning system to anticipate onsets and peaks of respiratory disease outbreaks at the state level in the US: a transfer learning approach leveraging digital traces. Nat Commun (in press).

  5. Meyer AG, Blasick S, Yang S, and Santillana M. (2026) Published

    An introduction to machine learning for the pediatric hospitalist. Hosp Pediatr. 16:e2025008939.