VIPRA

Nathan Farmer, a research assistant on the VIPRA project, received the Outstanding Undergraduate Student award in Computer Science from the University of West Florida.

A. Srinivasan and S. Namilae. Infection Risk Mitigation Using Pedestrian Dynamics. A Chapter in Architectural Factors for Infection and Disease Control, Editors: A. Bliss and D. Kopec. Routledge, 2023.

S. Namilae, Y. Wu, A. Mubayi, A. Srinivasan, and M. Scotch. Identifying Mitigation Strategies for COVID-19 Superspreading on Flights using Models that Account for Passenger Movement. Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease 47 (2022): 102313.

We have multiple postdoctoral positions available. Please see the following for further details:
1. https://careersmanager.pageuppeople.com/997/cw/en-us/job/494050/postdoctoral-research-associate-computer-science
2. https://careersmanager.pageuppeople.com/997/cw/en-us/job/494051/postdoctoral-research-associate-computer-science
You can find additional details on our projects at:
1. https://www.cs.fsu.edu/vipra/?page_id=797
2. https://www.cs.fsu.edu/vipra/?page_id=41

We have received a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for “Privacy Preserving Models Leveraging Mobility Data for Public Health”.

Project VIPRA has received a three-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NLM) for “A data analytics framework for the application of pedestrian dynamics to public health”.

1. R. Löhner, H. Antil, A. Srinivasan, S. Idelsohn, and E. Onate. High-Fidelity Simulation of Pathogen Propagation, Transmission and Mitigation in the Built Environment. Arch. Computat. Methods Eng. (2021).
2. Sadeghi Lahijani M, Gayatri R, Islam T, Srinivasan A, and Namilae S. Architecture-Aware Modeling of Pedestrian Dynamics. Journal of the Indian Institute of Science (2021).
3. Derjany P, Namilae S, […]

Royal Society Open Science published our paper pointing out infection risk arising from current airplane boarding policies.
Islam T., Lahijani M. Sadeghi, Srinivasan A., Namilae S., Mubayi A. and Scotch M. 2021. From bad to worse: airline boarding changes in response to COVID-19. Royal Society Open Science. 8201019201019. http://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.201019
It has received media coverage in several countries, such as Covid Risk Is […]

VIPRA was included as a case study in a talk titled “Case Studies in Research Software Sustainability” by Rajiv Ramnath, The Ohio State University and Daniel Katz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in a panel at the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, 2021. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14153303.v2

Letters in Biomathematics published our editorial paper suggesting N95 mask use by the general public.
Srinivasan A, Mubayi A, Akman O. (2020) Should N95 Respirators be Recommended for the General Public. Letters in Biomathematics, 7 (1), 143-152.