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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 […]

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.

A Bloomberg article discussing questionable strategies used by airlines to deal with COVID-19 mentioned discussed VIPRA research: Airlines Stumble Ahead With COVID Plans That May Heighten Risks.

An Associated Press article discussed VIPRA research explaining the recent increase in COVID-19 in Florida: Study: Florida social interactions rose before virus spike.

PLOS ONE published our paper on mitigating infection risk in queues. Derjany P, Namilae S, Liu D, Srinivasan A (2020) Multiscale model for the optimal design of pedestrian queues to mitigate infectious disease spread. PLoS ONE 15(7): e0235891. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235891

Prof. Sirish Namilae reviewed and provided guidance for COVID-19 emergency preparedness plan of Daytona Beach airport.

Project VIPRA has received a grant from the National Science Foundation’s RAPID program for “Leveraging New Data Sources to Analyze the Risk of COVID-19 in Crowded Locations”. This is in collaboration with the CAM2 team at Purdue.

PLOS ONE published our paper on the new CALM model. M.S. Lahijani, T. Islam, A. Srinivasan, and S. Namilae. Constrained Linear Movement Model (CALM): Simulation of passenger movement in airplanes. PLoS ONE 15(3): e0229690 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229690

Wired magazine had a news article on In Planes and Trains, Mini-Mops and Fog Machines Battle Coronavirus that cited VIPRA research.