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Juan B. Gutiérrez is a professor whose academic career at the University of Georgia in the Mathematics department, with joint appointments in Bioinformatics, spanned from 2012 to 2024. He earned a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Florida State University in 2009, an M.Sc. in Mathematics from the same institution in 2005, and a Civil Engineering degree from Universidad Nacional de Colombia in 1996. Following postdoctoral fellowships at the Institute for Theoretical and Mathematical Ecology at the University of Miami from 2009 to 2010 and the Mathematical Biosciences Institute at Ohio State University from 2010 to 2012, he joined the University of Georgia as Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Bioinformatics in August 2012, advancing to Associate Professor in August 2016. Additional roles included Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer Science from 2017 to 2019, Adjunct Associate Professor of Mathematics from 2019 to 2024, and Interim Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute from December 2017 to June 2018.

Gutiérrez specializes in mathematical biology, with research interests in multiscale modeling of infectious diseases such as malaria epidemiology and within-host dynamics, muscular dystrophy pathogenesis, bioinformatics, and systems biology data integration. Key publications include "The FRiND Model: A Mathematical Model for Representing Macrophage Plasticity in Muscular Dystrophy Pathogenesis" (Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 2019), "An Epidemiological Model of Malaria Accounting for Asymptomatic Carriers" (Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 2020), "Multi-scale dynamics of infectious diseases" (Interface Focus, 2019), and contributions to the MaHPIC malaria systems biology consortium. At the University of Georgia, he advised eight Ph.D. students to completion between 2017 and 2019, including works on data integration for systems biology, regularization for deep neural networks in biological data, and multi-omic malaria characterization. He served on the editorial boards of Mathematical Biosciences from 2012 to 2023 and Mathematics (MDPI) from 2020 onward, and secured funding from NSF and NIH for projects including the ALICE adaptive learning platform and malaria research. Honors include the 2023 Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities Academia de Liderazgo fellowship, 2023 Best Visualization Award at the Academic Data Science Alliance meeting, and 2021 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award from the Society for Mathematical Biology.