The centre has been active in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic and has been developing different software solutions that are publicly accessible since March 2020.

Projects

• 1. Campus Rakshak Simulator

  

  An agent-based simulator for the modelling COVID-19 spread in college campuses. Interface: Campus Rakshak Simulator App Please contact Aniruddha Iyer for input files. Public Github Repository: Campus Rakshak Simulator

• 2. City Scale Agent Based Simulator (with TIFR)

  

  1. S.Agrawal et al., City-scale agent-based simulators for the study of non-pharmaceutical interventions in the context of the COVID-19 epidemic, Journal of the Indian Institute of Science, vol. 100, pp. 809-847, November 2020
  2. Preprint of the above work.
  3. S.Agrawal et al. COVID-19 Epidemic: Unlocking the lockdown in India (Working Paper), 19 April 2020.
  4. Software: City-scale epidemic simulator (github link)
  5. Talk: Agent-based simulators for the study of COVID-19 spread (95 min), ICTS Colloquium, 09 June 2020.
  6. Talk: A city-scale epidemic simulator and its use in unlocking the lockdown (72 min), IISER Mohali Webinar, 19 May 2020.
  7. Talk: COVID-19 Epidemic: Unlocking the lockdown — Agent-based simulation platform for intervention studies (25 min), ISRC Online Symposium on Covid-19, 09 May 2020.

• 3. City Scale Agent Based Simulator Interface (with TIFR, CISCO, SAP)

  

  Mini-city simulator is a web-version of the IISc-TIFR agent based simulator which is designed to run on a (1/100) scale of a city, which translates into 1,00,000 agents.

  This supports the following cities: Bengaluru, Mumbai, New York City, Wuhan, and Kochi.

• 4. Opening of Mumbai Locals (with UVA, Google)

  

  1. A. Talekar, et al., Cohorting to isolate asymptomatic spreaders: An agent-based simulation study on the Mumbai Suburban Railway.
  2. A. Talekar, et al., Cohorting to isolate asymptomatic spreaders: An agent-based simulation study on the Mumbai Suburban Railway. The 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS-2021, May 2021.
  3. Video on Cohorting strategies for targeted isolation of asymptomatic spreaders of COVID-19 (1.5 min)
  4. Software that helps you explore scenarios: Study of cohorting strategies in the Mumbai locals

• 5. Exploration of Unlock Scenarios (with TIFR)

  

  P.Harsha et al., COVID-19 epidemic II: Phased emergence from the lockdown in Mumbai, 04 June 2020.

  Simulated study that explores different phased emergence strategies and toggles the resumption of the Mumbai Suburban Railway services.

• 6. Omicron Predictions

  

  State-wise predictions are available here (ISI’s page).

• 7. Impact of Weeknight and Weekend Curfews

  

  A study that uses mobility data to measure the impact of weeknight and weekend curfews on the spread of the Omicron variant of the SARS-Cov-2. Paper: A.Adiga, et al., Impact of weeknight and weekend curfews using mobility data: A case study of Bengaluru Urban.

• 8. COVID-19 Forecast Dashboard in Collaboration with ISI Bangalore and University of Virginia

  

  A dashboard to display covid-19 forecasts predicted by models provided by several teams Dashboard: COVID-19 Forecast Dashboard

• 9. COVID-19 India Database

  A website that provides a dashboard for COVID-19 data all across India. Data released by various central and state government entities are collated and made available in a standard format via APIs. The website was earlier called www.covid19india.org and was run by volunteers based on crowd-sourcing. The current website is maintained by the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-Madras), the Centre for Networked Intelligence at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) and Semantic Web India Pvt. Ltd. Website: https://www.incovid19.org/ IIT Madras Press Release ( Dated: 29 Oct 2021)

• 10. Model Ensemble (with ISI-Bangalore Centre)

  Weekly predictions

• 11. Serosurveillance (with Karnataka’s Dept. of Health and Family Welfare Services, Several Other Institutions)

  

  1. M.R.Padma, et al., Second round statewide survey for estimation of the burden of active infection and anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies in the general population of Karnataka, India, to appear, International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  2. Giridhara R. Babu, et al., The burden of active infection and anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies in the general population: Results from a statewide survey in Karnataka, India, International Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 108, P27-36, July 01, 2021.
  3. Fuller version at medRxiv
  4. Talks: Karnataka’s COVID-19 serosurvey Part 1 Summary, methods, results (Siva Athreya) Part 2 Optimal design (Rajesh Sundaresan)

• 12. Serosurvey Designs for the Middle of the Pandemic (with ISI, IIPH)

  

  1. S. Athreya, et al., COVID-19: Optimal design of serosurvey for disease burden estimation.
  2. Web interface and link to software
  3. Talk: Optimal design of serosurveys for disease-burden estimation (55 min), Global Pervasive Computational Epidemiology talk, 25 February 2020.

• 13. Immunity Warning, COVID-19 Resurgence, Vaccinations and NPIs

  

  1. S. Athreya, et al., Strategies to mitigate COVID-19 resurgence assuming immunity waning: A study for Karnataka, India.

  2. Rajesh Sundaresan’s short talk on Strategies to Mitigate COVID-19 Resurgence at the mini-symposium “Looking back, looking forward: The science of the COVID-19 pandemic”

  3. Work featured in the June, 2021 issue of IISc’s research news letter

• 14. Swabs to Labs

  

  Hackathon on allocation of Swabs to Labs (with Cisco)

• 15. Safe Opening of Workplaces, with the Karnataka Disaster Management Authority

  

  1. P.Patil et al., COVID-19 epidemic: A workplace readiness indicator, 18 May 2020.
  2. Workplace readiness calculator

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