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Our project aims to measure the development of U.S. Army Soldiers over the lifecycle of their careers. We seek to develop new methods and models to support the adoption of enhanced talent management approaches that lead to optimal performance.
National Well-being
Past Project
During World War II, the U.S. Army conducted surveys to reveal attitudes toward, and between Black and White Soldiers. These responses hold insights regarding attitudes about race, gender, and family roles of the time. Our research team used computational text analysis and social network analysis of handwritten responses to learn about the dynamics and language of soldiers in the 1940’s.
National Well-being
BV-BRC is the Bacterial and Viral Bioinformatic Resource Center in this program, providing access to comprehensive datasets including genomics, structures, functions, and more. BV-BRC also provides computational tools to quickly analyze data and make predictions using artificial intelligence techniques. The BV-BRC platform enables researchers to fully maximize the value of data related to pathogens.
Population Health Informatics,Systems Biology and Bioinformatics
Past Project
We are studying the spread of invasive plants in the Chitwan Annapurna Landscape (CHAL) of Nepal, which is part of a biodiversity hotspot. This problem of invasive species is an impediment to the achievement of multiple sustainable development goals drafted by the United Nations. CHAL has a rich diversity of flora and fauna, which is unfortunately threatened by the combined effects of climate change and increased human activities.
Resilient Societies and Interdependent Infrastructures
This project aims to reduce malaria transmission by administering ivermectin to humans and livestock. Ivermectin is an endectocide, a drug that can kill ecto- and endoparasites, as well as mosquitoes that feed on treated humans or animals. The overall goal of the project is to conduct randomized control trials through mass drug administration of ivermectin (iMDA) in humans and animals in Tanzania and Mozambique.
Population Health Informatics
The major goal of this project is to design, build, verify, and deploy an open-access general-purpose CI for network science, which we call net.science.
Resilient Societies and Interdependent Infrastructures
The SIF-funded program proposes planning and response strategies to contagious phenomena (e.g. infectious disease outbreaks, network contagion, et al) as a complex system big science problem.
Resilient Societies and Interdependent Infrastructures
The overall goal of this project is to develop methods for prediction of incidence rates and patient risk to HAIs and evaluate interventions to control their spread. The mechanisms of HAI transmission and antimicrobial resistance are very complex, and the available data are sparse and noisy. Therefore, risk prediction and evaluation of interventions cannot be done by simple statistical models restricted to one hospital.
Population Health Informatics
Past Project
This project brings together a systems science approach, combines agent-based stochastic epidemic models, and techniques from machine learning, high performance computing, data mining, and spatial statistics, along with novel public and private datasets on immunization and incidence, to develop a novel methodology for identifying critical undervaccinated clusters.
Population Health Informatics
Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs) are becoming a major challenge in today’s health systems worldwide; many of these infections are becoming resistant to antibiotics, which makes their treatment very difficult.
Population Health Informatics
