The CCI mini-workshop on digital technologies for COVID-19 featured presentations from several USC researchers and faculty on how digital technologies such as mobile applications, internet of things, data science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning can play a role in understanding, monitoring and combatting COVID-19.

The event featured several researchers and groups at USC. This mini-workshop was organized online as a Zoom Meeting and was open to all USC students, staff and faculty. You can find the presentation slides here. The program was as follows:

Introductory remarks, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Director CCI  [video]

Session 1: Data collection, Mobile Apps, IoT and Social Media Analytics

• Peter Kuhn, Dean’s Professor of Biological Sciences and Professor of Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, and Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, USC [video]
• Cyrus Shahabi, Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science, USC [video]
• Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, USC [video]
• Emilio Ferrara,  Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Research Team Leader at USC ISI [video]
• Kristina Lerman, Research Associate Professor of Computer Science and Principal Scientist at USC ISI [video]
• Yan Liu, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Karishma Sharma, PhD student in Computer Science [video]

Session 2: Data collection, Mobile Apps, IoT and Social Media Analytics

• Viktor Prasanna, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science, and Ajitesh Srivastava, Senior Research Associate, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering [video]
• Aram Galstyan, Research Associate Professor of Computer Science and Principal Scientist at USC ISI,  and Fred Morstatter, Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Computer Scientist at USC ISI [video]
• Pedro Szekely, Research Associate Professor of Computer Science and Principal Scientist at USC ISI [video]
• Jay Pujara, Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Research Lead at USC ISI [video]
• Jonathan May, Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Research Lead at USC ISI [video]
• Paul Bogdan, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Xiong Ye Xiao, PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering [video]