Service & Outreach

Public Health Support

• CDC FluSight Influenza Forecasting Repo
  2016–19, 2021–now
• CDC-supported Scenario Modeling Hub (COVID-19, Influenza, RSV)
  2020–now
• CDC-supported COVID-19 Forecast Hub Repo
  2020–23
• Tridemic (COVID-19, Influenza, RSV) in the United States – modeling & forecasting
  DTRA, 2022
• COVID-19 Response Support, Karnataka Technical Advisory Committee
  In collaboration with Indian Institute of Science, 2020–21
• COVID-19 Response Support, Virginia Departments of Health (VDH), Education (VDoE) and Emergency Management (VDEM) Report
  2020–23
• COVID-19 Response Support, Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)
  2020–21
• Influenza Forecasting Challenge, Armed Forces Health Services Branch (AFHSB)
  2018–19
• Ebola outbreak response in Central Africa (DRC)
  DTRA for US AFRICOM, 2018–19
• Ross River Virus response in Australia
  DTRA for US PACOM, 2018
• Pest Risk Assessment, Fall Army Worm, Egypt
  2017–18
• Pest Risk Assessment, Tomato leafminer, Nepal
  2016–17
• Seasonal influenza vaccine allocation planning
  DTRA for US NORTHCOM, 2016–17

Reviewing

• Guest Editor
  Epidemics Special Issue on Scenario Modeling Hub
• Track Chair
  ANNSIM 2024 – Health & Medicine
• NIH Study Section: Special Emphasis Panel
  Office of Data Sciences and Emerging Technologies, November 2022
• Grant Reviewer
  NIH MIDAS COVID-19 Modeling Urgent Grant New Initiatives
• NIH Study Section: Special Emphasis Panel 2021/01 ZRG1 PSE N90
  COVID-19: epidemiology and analytics
• TPC Member
  COMSNETS (2015, 2016) · IJCAI (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023) · AAMAS (2021, 2022, 2024) · AAAI (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024) · ICMLA (2021, 2022, 2023) · ANNSIM'21

Journal Reviewer

PNAS · PLOS Computational Biology · Nature Communications · Nature Communications Medicine · Nature Scientific Reports · Nature Human Behavior · JAMA Open · Epidemiology & Infection · Epidemics · Vaccine · American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene · PLOS Currents: Outbreaks · Health Security · Health Affairs · Journal of Theoretical Biology · Physica A · PLOS One · BMJ Open · F1000 · Frontiers · Frontiers Public Health · Ecological Informatics · Ecological Modeling · Simulation Modeling Practice & Theory · Applied Soft Computing · IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · Theoretical Computer Science · Artificial Intelligence Review · Journal of the Indian Institute of Science · Journal of The Royal Society Interface

Community Activities

• Organizing Committee, 2024 Annual CSTE-CDC Infectious Disease Forecasting & Modeling Workshop
  November 2024
• Co-organizer, Indo-US virtual workshop on Next Generation of STEM Scientists (NGSS)
  August 2022
• Organizing Committee, NSF VO on Pandemic Research for Preparedness & Resilience (PREPARE) Kickoff Workshop
  December 2020
• Co-organizer, epiDAMIK 3.0: The 3rd International Workshop on Epidemiology meets Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
  Co-held with SIGKDD 2020
• Delphi Panel member for Epidemic Forecasting Reporting Guidelines (EPI-FORGE)
  January 2020
• Local Organizing Committee, ICTS School and Workshop on Network Science in EECS
  IISc. Bangalore, 2012

Outreach

• Podcast co-host: COVIDChasers
  A retrospective of COVID-19 response from UVA-BI
• Podcast co-host: Science Before the Storm
  Part of the NSF PREPARE Virtual Organization
• Podcast guest: “The Outbreak I Didn’t Understand: A Conversation about Ebola and Measles”
  Voices of Biocomplexity (VoBI), UVA Biocomplexity Institute, 31 Jul 2026
• Panelist on “Data Sharing”
  Annual CSTE/CDC Infectious Disease Forecasting Workshop, Atlanta, Sep 2023
• “Innovative Professional Workshops Revolutionize Pedagogical Approaches for the Next Generation”
  SIAM News, 28 Nov 2022
• Panelist, Bridging the gap between CS/ML work and public health practice
  epiDAMIK 5.0, held in conjunction with ACM SIGKDD 2022
• Panelist, “A Metaculus Open Panel Discussion: How Forecasts Inform COVID-19 Policy”
  Metaculus, 5 Oct 2021
• “Flattening the Curve”
  Mini Med School Special Podcast: COVID-19 Charlottesville, 24 Jun 2020
• Panelist, “Rural Populations and Infectious Disease Transmission: Implications for COVID-19”
  George Mason University, 9 Jun 2020Slides
• “Networked Epidemiology for COVID-19”
  SIAM News, 1 Jun 2020
• “Modeling the Spread of Epidemics”
  The Pragati Podcast, 25 Mar 2020
• Panelist, “Batten Hour: Multidisciplinary perspectives on the coronavirus”
  UVA Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy, 24 Feb 2020

Press Mentions

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• “UVA Researchers Lead Development of Smart Risk Assessment Software to Improve Indoor Air Quality and Public Health”
  UVA Biocomplexity Institute News, 10 Oct 2025
• “Will We Get Omicron'd Again?”
  The Atlantic, 10 Nov 2022
• “Warning Signs About the First Post-pandemic Winter”
  The Atlantic, 5 Oct 2022
• “California, With Strict Mandates, Has More COVID Cases Than Florida, Texas—Here's Why”
  Newsweek, 11 Nov 2021
• “When Will Delta Variant Peak? Winter Uncertain As COVID Cases Drop in U.S.”
  Newsweek, 27 Sep 2021
• “University of Virginia scientists wield statistics to prep for coronavirus' next moves”
  The Virginian Pilot, 5 Sep 2021
• “Biocomplexity Institute's COVID-19 model projects peak in cases during first week of classes”
  The Cavalier Daily, 19 Aug 2021
• “An Interview with Srini Venkatramanan”
  Intelligent Health AI, 19 May 2020
• “To predict Flu's spread, modelers turn to weather forecasts”
  UVA Today, 18 Feb 2020
• “Using weather forecasts to predict flu activity”
  AccuWeather Press, 28 Jan 2020
• “Researchers utilize holistic approach to predict severity of influenza season”
  Cavalier Daily, 16 Jan 2020
• “UVA Researchers Harnessing Big Data's Power to Fight the Flu”
  UVA Today, 25 Oct 2019
• “Modelling epidemics: the maths behind disease outbreaks”
  Elsevier, Feb 2019
• “Researchers at Virginia Tech's Biocomplexity Institute work to forecast flu”
  Collegiate Times, 19 Feb 2018
• “Virginia Tech flu forecasting technology to be used by AccuWeather”
  WSLS10, 6 Dec 2017