VIPRA

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.

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
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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”.