Srinivasan (Srini) Venkatramanan is a research assistant professor. Prior to joining the University of Virginia in 2018, Venkatramanan did his postdoctoral research at the Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory, Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech (2015-2017), where he also worked as a Computational Health Data Scientist (2017-2018). He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science in 2014 for his dissertation titled "Influence Dynamics on Social Networks". Venkatramanan’s research areas include stochastic modeling, diffusion dynamics, optimal control, and network science. At the Biocomplexity Institute, he is responsible for developing, analyzing, and optimizing computational models for complex systems arising in the domains of epidemiology and food security.

Research Interests

Infectious disease modeling, model calibration, and forecasting; Resource allocation optimization; Data synthesis, simulation analytics, network-based causal inference, and game theory

Education

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, ECE, Ph.D., 2014  
College of Engineering Guindy, Chennai, ECE, B.E., 2008