Samvaad-Talk by Prof. Srinath Srinivasa, IIIT Bangalore (June 18, 2020)

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Title: Simulation of epidemiological models for COVID-19 for Karnataka

Abstract: This task presents an informal introduction to the activities of the IIITB COVID task force, which was formed in response to the nCovid-19 lockdown. The task force worked in close cooperation with the GoK war room and performed various kinds of data analytics. In addition, the task force also designed and implemented a ward-level diffusion simulator for Bangalore, based on mobility data obtained from Facebook Geoinsights portal as well as BMTC routes data.

Speaker bio:
Srinath Srinivasa heads the Web Science lab and is the Dean (R&D) at IIITB. Srinath holds a Ph.D. (magna cum laude) from the Berlin Brandenburg Graduate School for Distributed Information Systems (GkVI) Germany, an M.S. (by Research) from IIT-Madras and B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering from The National Institute of Engineering (NIE) Mysore. His research interests are in understanding how the WWW is affecting humanity; and how the web can enable social empowerment and capability building.He has participated in several initiatives for technology enhanced education including the VTU Edusat program, The National Programme for Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL), a Switzerland based online MBA school called Educatis, and IIITB’s educational outreach program with Upgrad. He is a member of various technical and organizational committees for international conferences like International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), ACM Hypertext, International Conference on Management of Data and Data Sciences (COMAD/CoDS), International conference on Ontologies, Databases and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE), International Conference on Big Data Analytics (BDA), etc.As part of academic community outreach, Srinath has served on the Board of Studies of Goa University and as a member of the Academic Council of the National Institute of Engineering, Mysore. He has served as a technical reviewer for various journals like the VLDB journal, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor of the journal Sadhana from the Indian Academy of Sciences. He is also the recipient of various national and international grants and awards, from foundations and companies like: EU Horizon 2020, UK Royal Academy of Engineering, Research Councils UK, MEITy, DST, Siemens, Intel, Mphasis, EMC and Gooru.
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