About the Authors

Ickwon Choi

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

Amy W. Chung

Affiliation Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Todd J. Suscovich

Affiliation Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Supachai Rerks-Ngarm

Affiliation Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand

Punnee Pitisuttithum

Affiliation Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Sorachai Nitayaphan

Affiliation Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand

Jaranit Kaewkungwal

Affiliation Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Robert J. O'Connell

Affiliation Department of Retrovirology, U.S. Army Medical Component, AFRIMS, Bangkok, Thailand

Donald Francis

Affiliation Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases (GSID), South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Merlin L. Robb

Affiliations US Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America, Henry Jackson Foundation HIV Program, US Military HIV Research Program, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Nelson L. Michael

Affiliation US Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Jerome H. Kim

Affiliation US Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Galit Alter

Affiliation Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Margaret E. Ackerman

Affiliation Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

Chris Bailey-Kellogg

cbk@cs.dartmouth.edu

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AWC TJS GA MEA. Performed the experiments: AWC TJS GA. Analyzed the data: IC MEA CBK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IC CBK. Wrote the paper: IC AWC TJS GA MEA CBK. Designed the study: IC GA MEA CBK. Designed, developed, and applied the analysis approaches: IC MEA CBK. Designed and conducted vaccine trials: SRN PP SN JK RJO DF MLR NLM JHK.