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URL:https://www.lincs.fr/events/seminar/
SUMMARY:"CoronaSurveys: Using Indirect Reporting to Estimate the Incidence
 of Epidemics"
DESCRIPTION:The world is suffering from a pandemic called COVID-19\, caused
 by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. National governments have problems evaluating the
 reach of the epidemic\, due to having limited resources and tests at their
 disposal. This problem is especially acute in low and middle-income
 countries (LMICs). Hence\, any simple\, cheap and flexible means of
 evaluating the incidence and evolution of the epidemic in a&nbsp\;given
 country with a reasonable level of accuracy is useful.\nIn this talk\, I
 will present the CoronaSurveys project (https://coronasurveys.org/).
 CoronaSurveys uses a technique based on (anonymous) surveys in which
 participants report on the health status of their contacts. This indirect
 reporting technique\, known in the&nbsp\;literature as network scale-up
 method\, preserves the privacy of the participants and their contacts\, and
 collects information from a larger fraction of the population (as compared
 to individual surveys). The CoronaSurveys project has been collecting
 reports for the COVID-19&nbsp\;pandemic since March 2020. Results obtained
 by CoronaSurveys show the power and flexibility of the approach\,
 suggesting that it could be an inexpensive and powerful tool to track the
 COVID-19 pandemic. This makes it especially interesting and useful for
 LMICs.\nBio\nDr. Antonio Fernández Anta is a Research Professor at IMDEA
 Networks.\nPreviously he was a Full Professor at the Universidad Rey Juan
 Carlos&nbsp\;(URJC) and was on the Faculty of the Universidad Politécnica
 de Madrid&nbsp\;(UPM)\, where he received an award for his research
 productivity. He&nbsp\;was a postdoc at MIT from 1995 to 1997\, and spent
 sabbatical years at&nbsp\;Bell Labs Murray Hill and MIT Media Lab. He has
 been awarded the&nbsp\;Premio Nacional de Informática "Aritmel" in 2019
 and is a Mercator&nbsp\;Fellow of the SFB MAKI in Germany since 2018. He
 has more than 25&nbsp\;years of research experience\, and more than 200
 scientific&nbsp\;publications. He was the Chair of the Steering Committee
 of DISC and&nbsp\;has served in the TPC of numerous conferences and
 workshops. He&nbsp\;received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of SW
 Louisiana in&nbsp\;1992 and 1994\, respectively. He completed his
 undergraduate studies at&nbsp\;the UPM\, having received awards at the
 university and national level&nbsp\;for his academic performance. He is a
 Senior Member of ACM and IEEE.
CATEGORIES:Seminars,Youtube
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