USC-IISc 2nd Faculty Research Online Symposium on COVID-19


Date : Sept 16, 2020 {Wednesday]

Coordinators : Cauligi Raghavendra (USC) and P. Vijay Kumar (IISc)

Agenda (Brochure)

Opening Remarks

8:00 AM to 8:10 AM at USC/8:30 PM to 8:40 PM at IISc
Yannis Yortsos (Dean, Viterbi School of Engineering, USC)
Yadati Narahari (Chair, Division of Electrical, Electronics and Computer Sciences, IISc

Technical Session

8:10-8:30 AM at USC / 8:40-9:00 PM at IISc
Vijay Chandru, Strand Life Sciences & IISc:
Exponential Technologies and the Perfect Storm for Digital Health

8:30-8:50 AM at USC / 9:00-9:20 PM at IISc
Yannis Yortsos, Assad Oberai, and Harisankar Ramaswamy, USC:
A Comprehensive Spatial-temporal Infection Model, with Applications to COVID-19

8:50-9:10 AM at USC / 9:20-9:40 PM at IISc
Sashikumaar Ganesan and Deepak Subramani, IISc:
Spatio-temporal Predictive Modeling Framework for Infectious Disease Spread9:10-9:30 AM at USC / 9:40-10:00 PM at IISc
Bhaskar Krishnamachari, USC:
Update on Digital Contact Tracing and Risk Estimation for COVID-199:30-9:50 AM at USC / 10:00-10:20 PM at IISc
Cyrus Shahabi, USC:
PREP: Pandemic Risk Evaluation Platform — Beyond Contact Tracing for COVID-199:50-10:05 AM at USC / 10:20-10:35 PM at IISc
Rajesh Sundaresan, IISc:
Swabs-to-labs Tool and Serosurvey Designs10:05-10:20 AM at USC/ 10:35-10:50 PM at IISc
Meher Prakash JNCASR, Santosh Ansumali, JNCASR and Aloke Kumar, IISc:
Different stages, Different Modeling Strategies: Adaptive Strategies for Early Stage, Detailed SAIR Modeling for the Intermediate Stage, Space-Time Analytics for a Mature Stage10:20-10:30 AM at USC/10:50-11:00 PM at IISc
Discussion and Closing
Abstracts & Speaker Biographies of the first COVID-19 Symposium