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Srinivasan (Srini) Venkatramanan is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia's Biocomplexity Institute.
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Srinivasan (Srini) Venkatramanan is a Research Assistant Professor at the Biocomplexity Institute, University of Virginia, where he works on computational modeling and simulation for biological and socio-technical systems. He has published 100+ technical articles, and his work has been funded by multiple grants from CDC, CSTE, NSF, NIH, and ARPA-H.
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Srinivasan (Srini) Venkatramanan is a Research Assistant Professor at the Biocomplexity Institute, University of Virginia, where he works on computational modeling and simulation for biological and socio-technical systems. His research spans network science, stochastic processes, and agentic AI systems, applied to epidemiology, forced migration, healthy buildings, and neuroscience. He has published 100+ technical articles across diverse venues such as PNAS, Nature Communications, ICML, and KDD, and received a best paper award at IEEE BigData 2022. He has contributed to national collaborative efforts including CDC FluSight, the COVID-19 Forecast Hub, and the Scenario Modeling Hubs, and his work has been funded by multiple grants from CDC, CSTE, NSF, NIH, and ARPA-H. In 2022 he received the University of Virginia's Collaborative Excellence in Public Service Award for modeling support provided to the Virginia Department of Health throughout its COVID-19 response. He has also managed several academia-industry partnerships with Google, Metaculus, Kinsa Health, and Signature Science. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Areas of Expertise
Topics I can speak to on the record:
- Epidemic forecasting, what it can and cannot tell you
- Scenario modeling and how projections inform policy decisions
- Wastewater surveillance as an early-warning signal
- Agentic AI systems applied to public health
- Human judgment and crowd forecasting during outbreaks
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Name & Title
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- Srinivasan (Srini) Venkatramanan
- Title
- Research Assistant Professor, Biocomplexity Institute, University of Virginia
Contact
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- srini@virginia.edu
- Communications
- Biocomplexity Institute Communications: erinraymond@virginia.edu