VIPRA

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. Mubayi, X. […]

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). National […]

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.

A paper on efficient parameter sweep for public health applications using low discrepancy sequences has been accepted at CCGrid 2018. Its details are as follows.
S. Chunduri , M. Ghaffari, M.S. Lahijani, A. Srinivasan, and S. Namilae. Parallel Low Discrepancy Parameter Sweep for Public Health Policy. Proceedings of the 18th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGrid), (2018).

The Phoenix affiliate of CBS interviewed Project VIPRA researchers and presented a news segment on our research.

Results from Project VIPRA were covered in around 40 international news outlets in four continents, including newspapers and magazines such as The Economist, Fox News, Economic Times, Navbharat Times, and India Today, with total monthly unique readership of around 1.8 billion. Please see the ‘Press Coverage’ tab for further details.

A talk on Project VIPRA was presented at ICCE 2017.
P. Derjany, S. Namilae, A. Mubayi, M. Scotch, and A. Srinivasan, Molecular Dynamics Like Numerical Approach for Studying Infection Propagation, International conference of composites Engineering ICCE (2017).