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The following news items discussed VIPRA research and the Workshop on Pedestrian Dynamics and Epidemic Modeling in the context of the current coronavirus outbreak. Contagion experts convene in Pensacola to discuss containing the coronavirus Pensacola News Journal article quoting VIPRA researchers on the coronavirus outbreak. Coronavirus workshop: Experts gather at UWF to discuss air travel infections WEAR TV (ABC affiliate) […]

VIPRA hosts the Workshop on Pedestrian Dynamics and Epidemic Modeling at University of West Florida in Pensacola. This workshop brings together researchers in pedestrian dynamics and epidemic modeling, and also decision makers who could leverage scientific results linking these two fields.

Ashok Srinivasan presented a talk on Parallel Pedestrian Dynamics for Analysis of Infection Spread During Air Travel, summarizing recent results from project VIPRA, at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, 18 October 2019.

Project VIPRA has received a grant from the National Science Foundation’s CSSI program for “Cyberinfrastructure for Pedestrian Dynamics-Based Analysis of Infection Propagation Through Air Travel”.

Two papers related to social media techniques with applications to health have been accepted at ASONAM 2019. 1. M. Ghaffari, A. Srinivasan, and X. Liu. High-Resolution Home Location Prediction from Tweets using Deep Learning with Dynamic Structure. In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), (2019). 2. M. Ghaffari, A. Srinivasan, A. […]

Ashok Srinivasan presented talks on Computational Analysis of Infection Spread Through Air Travel at the Indian Institute of Science; Birla Institute of Technology and Science – Pilani, Goa; International Institute of Information Technology – Bangalore; PSG Institute of Technology; and Silicon Institute of Technology in June and July 2019.

Ashok Srinivasan presented a talk on Parallel Simulation of Viral Infection Spread During Air Travel, highlighting results from VIPRA, at the AMLSS Seminar at Arizona State University’s Simon A. Levin Mathematical, Computational and Modeling Sciences Center 29 March 2019.

Project VIPRA has received a grant from the Florida Center for Cybersecurity for “Development of Cybersecurity Lab Exercises for Mobile Health”.

Submission for a talk on integrating travel and epidemic models for vector borne disease surveillance has been accepted at ITIM 2018. Its details are as follows. M. Ghaffari, J. Wang, A. Chari, A. Srinivasan, K. Viswanathan, A. Mubayi, and H. Chi. Integrating Travel and Epidemic Models for Vector Borne Disease Surveillance. 7th International Conference on Innovations in Travel Modeling (ITIM). […]

The IDC Special Report on the Blue Waters supercomputer listed Project VIPRA results first among 12 major scientific breakthroughs achieved using that supercomputer. The full report is available at NCSA.