Global Pervasive Computational Epidemiology Seminar Series
Date/time: Thursday, April 13, 11:30am – 12:30pm Eastern (USA)
Topic: Containing the Spread of a Contagion on a Tree
Speaker: Michela Meister
Zoom link: https://virginia.zoom.us/j/92700002677?pwd=Zi8vQ21TUHpBQVYxQXFpaTZPY2FNdz09
Speaker Bio: Michela Meister is a PhD candidate in computer science at Cornell University, where she is advised by Jon Kleinberg. Her main interests are in algorithms and networks, and her recent work focuses on algorithmic problems in contact tracing. Before coming to Cornell, she was a software engineer at Google Research. She holds BS and MS degrees in computer science from Stanford University.