Spatiotemporal Computing for Combating the COVID-19 Pandemic

Date: 

Wednesday, March 3, 2021, 11:00am

Location: 

Online

Presenters: Phil Yang (Geroge Mason Univ.) and Wendy Guan (Harvard CGA)

On NASA Goddard IS&T Colloquium Lecture Series - Spring 2021

Abstract: The sudden outbreak of COVID-19 in 2019 changed every walk of our lives on the planet. To address the global crisis, the NSF spatiotemporal innovation center spun off a rapid response project with support from NSF, NASA, State Department and many of its other members. This talk will introduce the project and how we utilized the advanced spatiotemporal computing technology to a) collect data on the fly from the Internet, b) collocate the spatiotemporal data using a unified spatiotemporal cubic framework, c) conduct spatiotemporal analytics to answer challenging questions, d) simulate the COVID-19 to address practical problems, and e) share the data, tools, platform, and research results for enabling global research and response to the Pandemic. We will also illustrate how crawler, knowledge bases, cloud computing, GPU computing, AI/ML tools are utilized in the rapid response project.

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