Data Science Against COVID-19 - Nuria Oliver | Duke ECE

Duke Electrical & Computer Engineering Distinguished Speaker Series — Data scientist Nuria Oliver has used GPS data to track the spread of H1N1 influenza in Mexico, Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and malaria in Mozambique. Since March 2020, Oliver has led a multi-disciplinary team of 20+ volunteer scientists in collaboration with the Presidency of the Valencian Government in Spain on 4 large areas: (1) human mobility modeling; (2) computational epidemiological models; (3) predictive models; and (4) citizen surveys via the COVID-19 impact survey, with over 600,000 responses worldwide.

Valencia's success in leveraging algorithms and unorthodox data to predict patterns in COVID-19 cases led WIRED to write an article about Nuria's work, titled "How Valencia crushed COVID with AI."