GPCE Spring 2022 Meeting
We are excited to announce the first in-person/hybrid meeting for our Expeditions team members on May 24-25, 2022 at UVA in Charlottesville, VA!
Tuesday May 24
- 10:00 AM - Welcome: Madhav Marathe (UVA)
- 10:30 AM - Keynote: Cecile Viboud (NIH)
- 11:30 AM - Q&A
- 12:00 PM - Break for lunch
- 1:00 PM - *Discussion Groups, Session 1: Computational epidemiology research progress
- 2:15 PM - Break
- 2:30 PM - *Discussion Groups, Session 2: Future directions
- 3:45 PM - Break
- 4:00 PM - Panel Discussion: Reflections on COVID and epidemiology research: short-term challenges and long-term questions
- Panelists: Li Xiong (Emory), Eili Klein (JHU), Justin Crow (VDH)
- Moderator: Srini Venkatramanan (UVA)
- 5:00 PM - Break
- 5:15 PM - Poster Session (see list of posters below)
- 6:15 PM - End Day 1
*Discussion Group Topics
- Modeling and Forecasting (Session Chair: Dave Higdon, VT)
- Data and Privacy (Session Chair: Aravind Srinivasan, UMD)
- Computation and Infrastructure (Session Chair: Mandy Wilson, UVA)
- Policy and Decision Making (Session Chair: Anuj Mubayi, The Public Health Company)
- Education and Outreach (Session Chairs: Baltazar Espinoza and S.S. Ravi, UVA)
Wednesday May 25
- 9:00 AM - Keynote: Ramesh Raskar (MIT)
- 10:00 AM - Q&A
- 10:30 AM - Break
- 10:45 AM - Summary of Discussion Groups
- 11:45 AM - Closing: Madhav Marathe (UVA)
- 12:00 PM - End Day 2
Poster Session


Spring 2022 meeting Program Committee:
- Xinwei Deng (Virginia Tech)
- Anuj Mubayi (The Public Health Company)
- Aravind Srinivasan (University of Maryland)
- Samarth Swarup (University of Virginia)
Newsletters
CompEpi Quarterly Febuary 2022
CompEpi Quarterly September 2021
CompEpi Quarterly February 2021
Seminar Series Videos // CompEpi YouTube Channel
Dylan George // 11 August 2022
Rita Colwell // 28 July 2022
Lauren Marks // 23 June 2022
Jeff Townsend // Adapting quarantine as a public health measure to scenarios where community transmission is ongoing on both sides of a border // 12 May 2022
Samarth Swarup // A Framework for Modeling Complex Human Behaviors in Epidemic Simulations // 14 April 2022
Richard Hatchett // Two Years Before the Mast: Reflections on the Late Pandemic // 24 March 2022
David Swerdlow // Role of Modeling During Epidemic Responses- View From Public Health, Industry, and Academia // 10 March 2022
Arnaud Bataille // Presentation of the EU Project Livestock Disease Surveillance Knowledge Integration (LIDISKI) // 10 February 2022
Alessandro Vespignani // Computational Epidemiology at the time of COVID-19 // 27 January 2022
Steven Zeichner // Towards Rapid Vaccine Development & Deployment // 18 November 2021
Simon Levin // COVID-19 and Challenges to the Classical Theory of Epidemics // 4 November 2021
Maimuna (Maia) Majumder // Machine Learning Research Applications During the COVID-19 Pandemic // 21 October 2021
Chadi Saad-Roy // Modeling SARS-CoV-2 immuno-epidemiological dynamics // 7 October 2021
Rebecca Powell Doherty // Immunopeptidomics: A Personalized Medicine Approach to Antigen Discovery, Characterization, and Treatment of Autoimmune Inflammatory Disease // 23 September 2021
Aniruddha Adiga // All Models Are Useful: Bayesian Ensembling for Robust High Resolution COVID-19 Forecasting // 9 September 2021
Judy Fox // HySec-Flow: Privacy-Preserving Hybrid Computer Model // 26 August 2021
Aravind Srinivasan // Controlling Epidemic Spread through Stochastic Networks // 12 August 2021
Mark Orr // Behavior Matters, Whatever Next: Computational Psychology for Computational Epidemiology // 8 July 2021
Stephen Eubank // Perturbative approximations to stochastic satisfiability problems // 22 April 2021
Anuj Mubayi // Ecological Complexity, Thresholds, and Risk Tradeoff in the Dynamics of Neglected Vector Borne Diseases // 8 April 2021
Jiangzhuo Chen // Efficient Vaccination in a Volatile Pandemic // 25 March 2021
Natarajan Meghanathan // A Novel Approach to Quantify the Intra-Cluster Density of the Blocking Cluster of a Complex Network // 11 March 2021
Rajesh Sundaresan // Optimal design of serosurveys for disease burden estimation // 25 February 2021
Wilfred Ndifon & Lavanya Singh // Searching for COVID-19 patients in a hypercube // 11 February 2021
Jeff Townsend // Optimal COVID-19 quarantine and testing strategies // 28 January 2021
Anil Vullikanti // Controlling epidemics on networks: a game theoretical perspective // 14 January 2021
Xinwei Deng // Modeling and Active Learning for Experiments with Quantitative-Sequence Factors // 19 November 2020
Jure Leskovec & Serina Chang // Mobility network models of COVID-19 explain inequities and inform reopening // 5 November 2020
Ramanan Laxminarayan // Epidemiology and Transmission Dynamics of COVID-19 in two Indian States // 24 September 2020
Jeff Townsend // The duration of immunity following COVID-19 infection // 10 September 2020
Kathleen Alexander // Transforming Landscapes and the Ecology of Scale - Understanding Disease Emergence at the Human-Wildlife-Environmental Interface // 27 August 2020
Naren Ramakrishnan // Automatic Extraction of Epidemiological Line Lists for Open Sources // 13 August 2020
B. Aditya Prakash // Deep Learning Data-driven Approaches for Epidemic Forecasting // 23 July 2020
Abhishek Pandey & Alison Galvani // Projecting hospital utilization and assessing implications of silent transmission during the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States // 9 July 2020
Rita Colwell // Climate, Oceans, and Human Health: Cholera as a Paradigm for Predicting Infectious Diseases // 25 June 2020
Simon Levin & Dylan Morris // Optimal, near-optimal, and robust epidemic control // 11 June 2020
Student Presentations & Spotlights
Ann Li, UVA & George Li UMD // February 2022
Hayley Hassler, Yale // August 2021
Carlos Bustamante & Jordy Cevallos, Arizona State // May 2021
Serina Chang, Stanford // October 2020 // February 2021
Jacob Ritchie, Stanford // Crowdsourcing County-level COVID-19 Policy Data - and Lijing Wang, UVA // Interplay of global multi-scale human mobility, social distancing, government interventions and COVID-19 dynamics // 24 June 2020
Henry Carscadden, UVA // June 2020
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Contact
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