Email

austin.meyer@bcm.edu

Positions

Assistant Professor

School of Medicine - Temple
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston

Adult and Pediatric Hospitalist

Baylor Scott and White
Temple, TX

Statistical Editor

Pediatrics Open Science - American Academy of Pediatrics

Addresses

McLane Children's Hospital (Hospital)

Temple, TX, 76502
United States

McLane Children's Hospital (Office)

Temple, TX, 76502
United States

Education

MD from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Lubbock, TX

PhD from University of Texas at Austin

Austin, TX

Biochemistry

MS from Georgia Institute of Technology

Atlanta, GA

Analytics

MPH from University of North Texas Health Science Center

Fort Worth, TX

MS from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

TX, Lubbock

Biotechnology

Residency at The Ohio State University

06/2021 - Columbus

Internal Medicine-Pediatrics

Professional Interests

• Adult & Pediatric hospital medicine
• Infectious disease epidemiology
• Machine learning
• Outbreak forecasting
• Molecular evolution
• Biostatistics
• Global health
• AI / LLM in healthcare
• Data-visualization & computational tools for education & research
• Bedside teaching / EBM education

Websites

Selected Publications

• AG Meyer, F Lu, L Clemente, M Santillana. " A prospective real-time transfer learning approach to estimate Influenza hospitalizations with limited data. " Epidemics. 2025 ; 100816.
• Mathis SM, Webber AE, León TM, Murray EL, Sun M, White LA, Brooks LC, Green A, Hu AJ, Rosenfeld R, Shemetov D, et al.. " Evaluation of FluSight influenza forecasting in the 2021–22 and 2022–23 seasons with a new target laboratory-confirmed influenza hospitalizations. " Nature Communications. 2024 ; 6289.
• Iyengar V, Meyer A, Stedman E, Casale S, Kalsi S, Hale AJ, Freed JA. " A Predictive Algorithm for Discriminating Myeloid Malignancies and Leukemoid Reactions. " American Journal of Medicine. 2024 ; 137 : 658-665.
• Kachroo AH, Laurent JM, Yellman CM, Meyer AG, Wilke CO, Marcotte EM. " Systematic humanization of yeast genes reveals conserved functions and genetic modularity. " Science. 2015 ; 348 : 921-925.
• Barrick JE, Colburn G, Deatherage DE, Traverse CC, Strand MD, Borges JJ, Knoester DB, Reba A, Meyer AG. " Identifying structural variation in haploid microbial genomes from short-read resequencing data using breseq. " BMC Genomics. 2014 ; 15 : 1-7.
• Jack BR, Meyer AG, Echave J, Wilke CO. " Functional sites induce long-range evolutionary constraints in enzymes. " PLOS Biology. 2016 ; 14 : e1002452.
• Meyer AG, Wilke CO. " Integrating sequence variation and protein structure to identify sites under selection. " Molecular Biology and Evolution. ; 30 : 36-44.
• Meyer AG, Wilke CO. " Geometric constraints dominate the antigenic evolution of influenza H3N2 hemagglutinin. " PLOS Pathogens. 2015 ; 11 : e1004940.
• Meyer AG, Dawson ET, Wilke CO. " Cross-species comparison of site-specific evolutionary-rate variation in influenza haemagglutinin. " Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. ; 368 : 20120334.
• Meyer AG, Spielman SJ, Bedford T, Wilke CO. " Time dependence of evolutionary metrics during the 2009 pandemic influenza virus outbreak. " Virus Evolution. ; 1 : vev006.
• Skyler Wu, Austin G Meyer, Leonardo Clemente, Lucas M Stolerman, Fred Lu, Atreyee Majumder, Rudi Verbeeck, Serge Masyn, Mauricio Santillana. " Ensemble approaches for short-term dengue fever forecasts: A global evaluation study. " PNAS. 2025 ; 122 (33)

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Funding

Multivariate transfer learning and probabilistic optimization to improve and extend machine learning forecasts in respiratory virus hospitalizations
#1L70AI194328-01

$100,000.00   (07/01/2025 - 06/30/2027)

Grant funding from NIH - LRP