Ashok Srinivasan

2018

Pierrot Derjany and Sirish Namilae (2018): Computational Model for Pedestrian Movement and Infectious Diseases Spread During Air Travel, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2018 AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference, Kissimmee, Florida, U.S.A.
Sudheer Chunduri, Meysam Ghaffari, Mehran Sadeghi Lahijani, Ashok Srinivasan, and Sirish Namilae (2018): Parallel Low Discrepancy Parameter Sweep for Public Health Policy, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, 2018 18th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGRID), pp291-300, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

2017

S. Namilae, A. Srinivasan, A. Mubayi, M. Scotch, and R. Pahle (2017): Self-Propelled Pedestrian Dynamics Model: Application to Passenger Movement and Infection Propagation in Airplanes, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier BV, Vol 465, pp248--260
Sirish Namilae, Pierrot Derjany, Anuj Mubayi, Mathew Scotch, and Ashok Srinivasan (2017): Multiscale Model for Pedestrian and Infection Dynamics During Air Travel, Physical Review E, American Physical Society, Vol 95, Num 5, pp052320

2016

Ashok Srinivasan, C. D. Sudheer, and Sirish Namilae (2016): Optimizing Massively Parallel Simulations of Infection Spread Through Air-Travel for Policy Analysis, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, 2016 16th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid), pp136-145, Cartagena, Colombia

2015

C. D. Sudheer and Ashok Srinivasan (2015): Efficient Barrier Implementation on the POWER8 Processor, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, 2015 IEEE 22nd International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC), pp165-173, Bangalore, India

2019

Ashok Srinivasan, Sirish Namilae, Anuj Mubayi, Matthew Scotch, Robert Pahle, Sudheer Chunduri (2019): Simulation of Viral Infection Propagation during Air Travel, 2019 Blue Waters Annual Report, pp302-303

2018

Ashok Srinivasan, Sirish Namilae, Anuj Mubayi, Matthew Scotch, Robert Pahle, Sudheer Chunduri (2018): Simulation of Viral Infection Propagation through Air Travel, 2018 Blue Waters Annual Report, pp248-249

2017

Ashok Srinivasan (2017): Simulation of Viral Infection Propagation Through Air Travel, 2017 Blue Waters Annual Report, pp242-243

James Bordner and Michael L. Norman: Computational Cosmology and Astrophysics on Adaptive Meshes using Charm++


SC '18 (PAW-ATM: Parallel Applications Workshop - Alternatives to MPI), Dallas, Texas, U.S.A., Nov 16, 2018

Sirish Namilae, Mubayi, A., Srinivasan, A., and Derjany, P.: Model based policy analysis for infection spread during air transportation


4th International Conference of Transportation and Health (ICTH 2018); Mackinac Island, Michigan, U.S.A., Jun 27, 2018

Sudheer Chunduri, M. Ghaffari, M. Sadeghi Lahijani, A. Srinivasan, and S. Namilae: Parallel Low Discrepancy Parameter Sweep for Public Health Policy


18th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2018): Washington, D.C., U.S.A., May 2, 2018

Supercomputing the Spread of Contagions on Airplanes


Mar 30, 2020

Researchers are using supercomputers to model how contagions can spread onboard aircraft. This research is especially used for air travel where there is an increased risk for contagious infection or disease, such as the recent worldwide outbreak of the coronavirus, which causes COVID-19 disease.


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Embry-Riddle researchers study ways to reduce the spread of infectious diseases on commercial airliners


Sep 19, 2017

When Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University professor Sirish Namilae travels for pleasure or for work, his eyes are focused on how people are boarding the plane and move through security and other areas of the airport. ... Namilae, the primary author on the two initial research papers that included professors from Arizona State University and Florida State University, studied the transmission of Ebola and other viruses using a multiscale, hybrid computer model. By applying mathematical models used in materials science such as molecular dynamics, passenger movement and boarding and deplaning was analyzed around a hypothetical infected passenger along with transmission rates and incubation periods for diseases.


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New boarding procedures may limit spread of disease inside airplane cabins


Sep 2, 2017

New research out of Florida State University has offered policy makers new strategies for limiting the spread of disease among airline passengers. Computer models suggest revised boarding procedures and the use of smaller plane cabins could reduce the risk of infection during a serious disease outbreak. ... Scientists at Florida State used computer simulations to develop a more pragmatic response. Using current models of human behaviors and the localized spread of disease, researchers designed sophisticated algorithms to predict how different boarding procedures and plane parameters influence the spread of disease inside the tight-quarters of an airplane cabin.


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New Boarding Procedures, Smaller Cabin Size May Limit Infection on Planes


Sep 1, 2017

During major epidemics, cramped airplane cabins are fertile ground for the spread of infection, but new research suggests changing routine boarding protocols could be a key to reducing rampant transmission of disease. In response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak that grounded hundreds of international flights, Florida State University associate professor of computer science Ashok Srinivasan set out to investigate the mechanics of infection spread on high-occupancy aircraft. ... The team used sophisticated supercomputer simulations to identify air-travel procedures most prone to the spread of infection. Their findings are enough to unnerve frequent fliers: Not only is boarding more dangerous than deplaning in terms of disease transmission, but the three-zone boarding system so commonly used among popular airlines is appreciably worse than the alternatives.


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Using Blue Waters supercomputer to better understand Ebola transmission


Sep 13, 2016

Most of us in the United States likely feel safe from Ebola—West Africa feels like it's worlds away. We're located very far geographically from the countries with the highest frequency of infections, like Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea, and many of us aren't likely to be traveling to those places any time soon. But what about in the airports? Could you come into contact with someone who has contracted Ebola and find yourself infected? ... Florida State University professor Ashok Srinivasan is researching a way to prevent that scenario from ever happening, or at least making sure that it is a lot less likely to occur with the help of the Blue Waters supercomputer.


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Blue Waters to help researchers tackle Ebola


Apr 7, 2015

NCSA’s Blue Waters supercomputer will be used by three research teams to gain new understanding of the deadly Ebola virus, thanks to allocations provided through the National Science Foundation’s Rapid Response Research program. “As the nation’s most powerful and productive supercomputer for open science, Blue Waters plays a vital role in a wide range of research that impacts our lives,” said Blue Waters leader Bill Kramer. “Blue Waters is helping scientists better understand Alzheimer’s disease, HIV, earthquakes, and dangerous tornadoes, and we’re gratified that now we can help address the global threat of Ebola.”


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