[Population Modeling] Hi, short bio of Yifei

[Ma Yifei]

   Hi, everyone. I am Yifei Ma, Ph.D. I am a new member here and want to
introduce myself. I was a member of NDSSL at Virginia Tech. My research
experience includes data management system, population and behavior
modeling and simulation, and analysis of large scale social networks. I am
interested in improving simulation systems with the emergent technologies
(such as big data and high performance computing technologies).
  My previous work is about the modeling and simulation of public health
policy for epidemic outbreaks. My work [1] improves the social behavior
modeling flexibility and simulation efficiency. With the improvement, the
latency of evaluating policies in laboratory for real time epidemic control is
reduced. My work [2] evaluated the effectiveness of two strategies during
an epidemic outbreak, self-motivated prevention behaviors and community-led
interventions by simulating the strategies in US cities during an
influenza. I am more interested in the system design of this simulation
problem.

[1] Keith R. Bisset, Jiangzhuo Chen, Suruchi Deodhar, Xizhou Feng, Yifei
Ma, and Madhav V. Marathe. Indemics: An Interactive High-Performance
Computing Framework for Data Intensive Epidemic Modeling.
In the ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS),
Special Issue on Simulation in Complex Service Systems, Volume 24, Issue 1,
Article 4, January 2014.

[2] Achla Marathe, Bryan Lewis, Christopher Barrett, Jiangzhuo Chen, Madhav
Marathe, Stephen Eubank, and Yifei Ma. Comparing Effectiveness of Top-Down
and Bottom-Up Strategies in Containing Influenza.
In PLoS ONE, Volume 6, Issue 9, e25149
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